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Welcome to the Sacramento Endpoint Management & Virtualization User Group website!

If you live in the Sacramento area and use any Altiris products, we invite you to join our User Group!  To become an official member, click the "Request Membership" button (you must log into Connect first).

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November 6th Meeting

We are not going to have the UG meeting on Nov. 6th a previously planned.  We are trying to line up a presenter to discuss NS troubleshooting.  Will most likely be in December.  Please stay tuned for further info.

Thanks,
Patrick

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Minutes - Symantec Sacramento User Group Meeting on 8/7/09

Sacramento Symantec User Group Meeting minutes from 08/07/09
Attendees: 16 – it was Furlough Friday for most State Workers
 
Points:
200      Patrick Calvert – split with Linda on setup
200      Linda Skellenger – split with Patrick on setup
100      Cesar Romero - drawing
200      Linda Skellenger – drawing
300      John Henriksen – drawing
500      Patrick Calvert – presenter
 
Rob Reyes from Bay Dynamics presented “Contract Management Solution” via 6.5 console
  • Track contracts for IT Hardware/Software
    • Purchase Orders pertaining to HW/SW purchases
    • Lease Agreements
    • Warranties
  • Associate Inventory and Application Metering Data
    • Leases/Purchases
    • Software Asset Management
  • Reporting
    • Software Compliance checking
    • Computer off leasing in x days
    • Computer older than x days
  • Contract Management Solution links to Asset Management Solution to the Assets
  • Software Compliance
    • Win32 License
    • Application Metering solution (tracks how many times that application has been used)
  • Inventory Solution – holds all the versions of SW purchased, quantity, product id, version number (use wild card “%”to locate all versions
  • Implementation
    • Define gaps
    • Determine ROI based on those gaps
    • Need to be measurable objectives on HW/SW purchase decisions
    • Look at current resources
      • How are things done now
      • How would you like them to be done
      • Support
      • What are the pain points?
    • Are the defined business goals realistic?
    • Best practices
    • Wish list: compare good wishes with the not so good wishes (been there – why it didn’t work)
    • Use of other solutions (non-Symantec) to achieve goal in coordination with Symantec products
    • Review success metrics – must be measurable and actionable
  • Client Management Suite includes: Inventory Solution/Contract Management Solution, Asset Management Solution, etc.
 
Patrick Calvert from SMUD displayed and discussed his experience with Altrinsic Solutions - HIIS product in conjunction with Symantec’s Deployment Solution
  • Reviewed scripts for specific jobs
  • Went into HIIS (Hardware Independent Imaging Solution)
    • Rather intuitive – hasn’t had to read much of the manual or training
    • Installed on test system – tried it out, then setup in production
  • Altrinsic Solutions owns HIIS and DS Alert (two products SMUD is using)
  • HIIS
    • Uses WinPE for PXE boot and install drivers
    • HIIS is integrated
    • Created job under imagining section of DS
      • Can modify
      • Script ready for deployment
      • Scheduled
      • Reboot system can be controlled
      • NS agent installed
    • Maintain
      • Automated for various models and class
  • AHI – Advanced Hardware Inventory – helps reduce the number of classes
  • Several tabs
    • Analyze – current setup
    • Collect – one more level
    • Integrate – creates jobs
    • Maintain – automated
 
  • Next meeting discussions:
    • State furlough Friday – should meeting be changed to Thursday, those from the State said “No” since it is difficult to get another day off, would rather come on the Friday. Most attend based on topic discussion. Based on this information meeting to stay on Friday.
    • Most wanted discussion on HelpDesk solution – see another companies use of the current product – Brent will discuss with co-workers and let us know a good time to present
    • Decided to discuss Professional Services for next agenda:
      • Trouble shooting Inventory issues
      • Health Check
      • No user presentation
      • Asset/Inventory Trouble shooting
      • Setup room in ‘horse shoe’ fashion for discussion
 
Next meeting scheduled for November 6th, 8:30 to noon at the SMUD CSC location (6301 S St, Sacramento)
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Here is a link to a webinar for the same presentation that Rob gave.

24 weeks 5 days ago pcalver created a download Slide Deck from the May 8th user group meeting.
Attached is the PowerPoint slishow from the May 8th Sacramento User group.
26 weeks 2 days ago lskelle posted a blog entry Minutes - Symantec Sacramento User Group Meeting on 5/8/09
Sacramento Symantec User Group Meeting minutes from 05/08/09 Attendees: Lots – it was a great turnout Points: 200 Patrick Calvert – split with Linda on setup 200 Linda Skellenger – split with Patrick on setup 100 Mike Jones - drawing 200 Dewayne Cudney – drawing 300 Ralph Rodriguez – drawing 500 Patrick Calvert – presenter 500 Rob Reyes - presenter Patrick...
26 weeks 6 days ago eabeyta commented on the Sacramento Altiris/Symantec User Group Meeting event
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Next User Group Meeting

We are planning for the next user group meeting to be May 8th 2009.  Sign up and itinerary will be posted soon.

29 weeks 6 days ago pcalver posted an article Inventory C: Drive Fragmentation and Defrag Using a Custom Inventory and Software Delivery
Need to know if the c: drive on your inventoried systems are fragmented? We do, we also need to defrag them regularly. Here is how I am going to do it. I am piloting this as I type this documentation. I have written a script using Wise Scripting. I have attached a ZIP file containing the WSE file and the compiled EXE file.
32 weeks 3 days ago pcalver posted an article Create a Custom Inventory for DSN's (ODBC)
I just recently came up with a need to find all systems with a specific DSN name so I can target those systems with a change to the DSN configuration. By default Altiris Inventory gets the installed ODBC drivers, but not the configured DSN's. I have written a script using Wise Scripting. I have attached a ZIP file containing the WSE file and the compiled EXE file.
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