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The vComputer view provides an easy access to managed computers, however in very large reporting server this view (built on many other abstration) is taking a lot of time to run and is not the most efficient base to built report. How could we provide similar information without the overhead?

The following SQL query will return the guid, name, IsManaged, server (based on OwnerNSGuid) from the database using 3 tables and 2 joins.

create view dbo.vComputer2 as
select ir.Guid, ir.IsManaged, im.Name, ns.name as 'Server'
  from ItemResource ir
  join Item im
    on ir.guid = im.guid
  join Item ns
    on im.ownernsguid = ns.guid
 where ResourceTypeGuid='493435F7-3B17-4C4C-B07F-C23E7AB7781F'

On a reporting server with 60,000+ managed computers this query ran in 12 seconds returning 62,921 rows. In...

It appears that the custom dataclass creation module in SMP 7.x contains the option to set a dataclass to handle multi-row entries, however with my customer we could not get the tick box to effectively turn an existing data class to multi row.

So in the end we resorted to export/import with a manual edit of the xml (using notepad++) to set the multirow parameter to true instead of false.

I will try to replicate this as soon as I am back in the office, but right now I am wondering if during the design it was considered that updating dataclass should not be allowed (thus changing from single to multi-row or the opposite be ineffective any times after dataclass creation).

Having said that we tried to create a new dataclass but this failed for some unknown reasons (the dataclass never appeared on the custom dataclass section).

And a final word on the brief report from my customer: custom classes not created via the custom class wizard (imported for example)...

Are you still running Altiris 6 with Asset Management Solution?  Have you created custom Resource Types but have been frustrated that the icon for these is always that computer/telephone combination icon?  With some quick edits to the XML of the Resource Type and re-importing it, you can change the icon to virtually anything you want.

Our company is starting to purchase several iPad's and we wanted to keep them as a separate resource type since they aren't exactly computers or cell phones / smart phones.  We also have several other custom resource types and it was getting frustrating staring at several completely different resource types that all shared the same icon.

If you view the XML on one of the standard resource types like Computer or Monitor, you'll see a line below the localizations section but above the security section that looks something like this:

<presentation defaultImage="/Altiris/Images/icn20Comp-...