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 ...
Introduction
Over my 15 or so years in IT, I've been fortunate enough to see an evolution technology which is nothing short of staggering. The result of IT culture's sudden emergence (and it's rapid and continuing rate of progress) is ...
In today's enterprise, application administrators are increasingly required to be IT generalists with knowledge spanning far beyond the application layer. Applications demand performance and when an application underperforms, we are increasingly ...
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 ...
If WAN Nirvana seems a thousand miles away to you in your deployments, grab a coffee and immerse yourself here for the next half-hour. The tricks I'll be showing today will not only potentially save you many days of work, it just might make your ...
Many moons ago I was asked to setup a scratch folder for other admins. It's primary purpose was to serve as a temporary dumping ground for backup images whilst a machine was being serviced. It was also useful as a readily available temporary ...
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 ...
Many of us DS 6.x administrators manage the distribution of our Deployment Server 6.x jobs using shortcuts. These are brilliant constructs - like file system shortcuts, no matter now many shortcuts are distributed across your Deployment Server, the ...
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 ...