When it comes to imaging, Deployment Server 6.x's Hidden bootworks partitions are impressive. They provide an astoundingly efficient zero-touch mechanism to re-deploy computers at disk-to-disk speeds that bypass LAN bottlenecks. The only downside I ...
Sometimes when looking at client connectivity issues, we need something a little more tunable than Ping's response times using I nternet C ontrol M essage P rococol (ICMP) packets. Some troubleshooting scenarios for example require ...
As there are drivers around for this device which simply don't work for the XP sysprep process, I thought I'd post a working set.
This is for the following AMD controllers;
AHCI
PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_7804&CC_0106
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For those that still have to maintain XP images, today's article shows my trick for testing the validity of new mass-storage drivers. This enables me to confirm mass-storage support in sysprep in minutes rather than hours.
Introduction
The ...
Getting a new computer imported into your imaging hardware pool can often be a right pain. One of those pains I'm going to ease today is driver tracking.
Today's article is a vbscript which will dump your hardware into a nice HTML ...
RSync is a great little utility for syncronising file trees across the network. Like most Linux programs though, the executable isn't easily transferable to Altiris' Linux automation as it lacks the prerequisite libraries. To get around ...
Last month we received delivery of a shiny new Dell Optiplex 990 for ratification. It's arrival heralded the start of a process which is vital to ensure new hardware integrates seemlessly into our environment. My side of this process is to give ...
ImageInvoker is a handy Deployment Server (DS 6.9) add-on designed to reduce the TCO of using DS in your environment. It provides a self-service imaging interface in automation, a deployment portal if you will, so that desk-side IT staff can schedule the ...
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An item of feedback which I've been trying to push to PMs on Patch Management is the issue of vendor patches not always being patches. This can cause headaches ...
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Attached today is a raw alpha distribution of the new version of ImageInvoker. If you've missed the series on Developing Imageinvoker , I suggest you give that a quick skim to get an idea of what the new version holds.
It very alpha ...