Customized User Prompts during SW Installations
We really need to be able to have a customized prompt for Software Delivery jobs. The prompt to the user should be able to inform them of what is about to happen using a custom message ,maybe even a logo, and allow them to delay the task if needed. This message would need to not have any cancel buttons and take measures to ensure that even an advanced user would not be able to cancel by killing the Altiris Agent or the delivery job. If the user ignored the message for a specified time interval then it would default to clicking OK and continue on. It would also only allow the user to delay for a preset number of time. There are similar functions in SEP with scheduled scans and we need to have that same functionality for software deployments.
Sounds good
I like it. We're looking to build something similar to be a front-end for all of our SWD jobs. The OotB options in the SWD Agent are, shall we say..."limited". We're looking at something that would read a .ini file with options, probably written in VB or WiseScript. As far as the "Not being able to kill it" part...with Administrative users (like we, and apparently you have) there is not a whole lot you can do to prevent it, unless there is some anti-tampering logic built into the Agent (apparently SEP has this) or you have a "tag team" agent that has more than 1 active process, each of which monitors the other and restarts it if it fails. I've seen some malwares that work this way :)
Thanks,
Kyle
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Wise Script
We have a default wise wrapper we typically use that has a custom graphics for our company, an option to delay 15,30,45 or 60 minutes and a script that runs in the background that "kills" taskmanager if it is opened. They could still use taskkill, but if they are that savy, then they'd probably find another way around it anyway. I'll see if I can scrub the wisescript and get it posted for everyone's use.
Screenbert
That would be awesome!
Screenbert you would be my hero if you could post that! That would get us well on our way to implementing the tool we're looking for.
Thanks,
Kyle
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Yay! I'm a hero. :)
I just posted the download, I don't know if you can access it yet or not, but here is the link. Be sure to vote on it if you like it. Let me know if you have any issues.
http://www.symantec.com/connect/downloads/wise-wrapper-customized-user-prompts
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