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ImageInvoker AD prototype tested today!
ianatkin | 28 Jan 2011 | 2 comments

Milestone reached today!!

I've managed today to plug a few solid hours in upgrading the ImageInvoker engine, and have tested successfully the protocol for a client AD authenticating at the engine and receiving it's authorised job list.

Still lots to do and document, but having finally tied together lots of new functions to produce this is a sweet feeling!! Finally, something is emerging....

 

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Developing ImageInvoker
ianatkin | 22 Dec 2010 | 0 comments

Hi,

As you can't post to two communities at once, I thought I'd blog out in the Developer community that I'm working over these dark winter months on pushing forward with an Imaging Add-on the DS6.9 branch called ImageInvoker.

I intend to document as much as possible on how I develop the product, so I'm hoping that if any of you spot me doing something easy the hard way you'll give me a prod huh?!?

When Hampton is released in March 2011 I'll press on with an equivalent add-on there too most likely.

Ta for now,
Ian./

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Helpdesk + Blackberry
glombus | 30 Nov 2010 | 0 comments

Apologies if this is repetitive and everyone in Altiris land but me knows about this, but I recently dove head first into Mobile Application Development.  My most recent project was all about giving our user base a nice and simple way to submit tickets to Helpdesk 6 from their Blackberries.

I have a lot of code that I'd be happy to upload, but I figured I'd post the general ideas and see if anyone's actually interested.  These methods have a trade off for speed and usability.  What I'm discussing below are the two main methodologies I found for submitting an incident (ticket) to the Helpdesk.  I also attached some screenshots of the UI I made, which is designed to be quick and use plain English with selectable lists and other input devices to make it easier for them to fill out information.

  • Send an email from the device - By signing your application with keys from RIM you have access to a number of...
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Tip - Simple online spellcheck tool
scottwed | 10 Nov 2010 | 0 comments

I frequently find myself writing blocks of end-user facing text that are inserted into various Workflow UI components.  There's no built-in spellcheck capability, so my mediocre typing accuracy has a bad habit of showing up far too often.

I'm sure there are ton of these sites, but this is the one I've been using for a few weeks now. It's a painless experience to paste in the text, get corrections and copy the results back out.  I've only been using the English dictionary, but supposedly it has support for 27 languages.

http://orangoo.com/spellcheck/

A practical example:

 

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Symantec links
Angelique28 | 20 Oct 2010 | 0 comments

FileConnect - Downloading site

https://fileconnect.symantec.com/

FileConnect - List of Available Products

http://www.symantec.com/downloads/fileconnect/index.jsp

Licensing Portal - Product registration

https://licensing.symantec.com

Symantec Site

http://www.Symantec.com

Supported Enterprise Products

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/all_products.jsp

Non-Supported Enterprise Products

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/all_products.jsp?hassupport=N

Partner Locator - List of Symantec partners

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Getting Started in the Developer Community
Kimberley | 28 Sep 2010 | 0 comments

Here are a few tips and tricks that might come in handy as you get familar with Symantec Connect and the Developer community.

Registering/Logging In to Symantec Connect

You can view content in the site without logging into Symantec Connect, but to participate, you'll need to register and log in. To register:

To register on Symantec Connect:

  1. Click the Register button on the Symantec Connect menu. You will then go to the SymAccount page.
  2.   Complete the SymAccount information as required:
    a.    If you already have a SymAccount ID and password (used on multiple Symantec ap plications including MySymantec, MySupport, Symantec Licensing Portal, PartnerNet, Customer Care and Symantec Connect), click the Login button.
    b.    If you don’t have a SymAccount ID and password,...
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How to be a MVP?
R-Vijay | 23 May 2010 | 2 comments

General/ Off-topic Discussion: ‘How do I become an MVP?’ is one question which keeps ringing in most of our minds. Quite a few of you had also sent me an email asking the same. Well, I must agree that the awareness of the MVP program is less among the tech folks. Let me start explaning.. The thoughts which are mentioned in this article are just my understandings about the program, being an MVP for a couple of years!

First of all, Most Valuable Professional (MVP) is not a certification., Its an Award! – Its a mode of recognition which Microsoft gives for individuals who are technology experts and most importantly, who play a role and are keen in sharing their expertise with the Community. So if your question is, “I have completed my MCTS or MCAD.. what are the next steps towards being a MVP?” – You must re-think on your question.!

Knowledge Sharing is one Mantra for this! The same way as most of us are...

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Clouds Compute Well
Ramprasad_Rajaraman | 04 Dec 2009 | 1 comment

The buzz word cloud can be a little confusing from lay man points of view when compared to internet. But when it has been presented in a proper way this can be an effective mechanism for unmanned handling of IT services.

To go in to a more technical term, let me quote an example, where a server has been failed in the Data Center and it is of an important thing and may cause a serious damage in terms of profit to the end customer. In this case, if a cloud workflow, has been implemented such as a policy engine and an deployment system which acts like a software as a service then, the failed server can be automatically recovered with the corresponding data embedded in the same.

Diving deep in to the cloud, we can also write a cloud workflow in such a manner that it will also act on the Virtual machines. For example if a Virtual machine fails, then an event will be triggered, upon capturing the event, the workflow starts with backing up of the data in the Vm and then...

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Welcome to the Symantec Developer Community
Kimberley | 04 Dec 2009 | 3 comments

Welcome to the Symantec Connect Developer community — an online area where our development partners, customers, and Symantec can share information with each other. We have several developer groups that are active in this community and will continue to add to these groups over time. Note that most of the content in this area is private to members of the groups. Current groups include:

Symantec Management  Platform (SMP)
Much of the information in this group is accessible to registered members of the Symantec Developer Program and requires that you be a registered program member and a Symantec Management  Platform (SMP) group member to view content and access downloads on Symantec Connect. If you are a registered member of the Symantec Developer Program, you may request membership to this group.

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How to freeze a batch file or do not allow the users to close the batch file ?
WiseUser | 03 Dec 2009 | 9 comments

CMDOW is a Commandline utility that allows manipulation of open windows. This is a standalone executable for which no installation is required.

  CMDOW [window | /T] [/B] [/F] [/P]
  CMDOW /TH | /TV | /MA | /CW | /UW | /AT | /FS | /WM
  CMDOW window {[/ACT] [/INA] [/ENA] [/DIS] [/VIS] [/HID] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/RES]
        [/TOP] [/NOT] [/REN caption] [/MOV left top] [/SIZ width height] [/CLS]
        [/END]}
  CMDOW /RUN [state] file [args]

  window  List specified window (if omitted, all windows are listed).
  /T      List windows only shown on the taskbar.
  /B      List windows using bare format (no heading information).
  /F      List windows showing full information (don't truncate any fields).
  /P...

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