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MMC Management Console
Rune Bakken
June 20th, 2009
Filed under: Altiris Client Management Suite, Altiris Notification Server, Basics, Endpoint Management and Virtualization
4 Agree, 5 Disagree
I would propose a suggestion to create an alternative managment consle than web browser based. In the futur I would like to see a MMC snap-in management console with a more intuituve structure (like SCCM) which also have better performance than the web based on Altiris.
Both SCCM and Landesk are using management console, why shouldn't Altiris do the same since this would enhance the look and feel for administrators on Altiris products.
Rune
It couldn't be worse...
When using SCCM, WSUS, or a variety of other tools, I have no issue with MMC snap-ins. The current system requires all the users of the system to run Internet Explorer (not caring if they use a different default browser) and constantly has issues with the FlexGrid componenets (Remember the IE7 issue where you couldn't right-click - and the one where the compoinent became "unregistered"), long reload times when changing categories, etc. If the console/helpdesk is effectively limiting itself to IE6+, then it can't be a "cross-platform" argument... so why not an MMC console. I dare say it can't be any worse than using IE for management. Just, please, don't even think of making a Java app for this *shudder*.
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