Instead of viewing the 'Status' tab on a software delivery task (which is never reliable) use this query to see a list of computers which have the status of 'Not Run' - meaning they have not received the Task or have not delivered any status on the task. Use the Collection Guid in your where clause.

select Guid from vResource where Guid in (select Guid from (select TOP 400 b.name, b.guid    
 from CollectionMembership a, vcomputer b    
 where a.CollectionGuid in ( '{e04bebd1-92dd-40e2-b014-9fed9ddcdd32}','{b6914ce4-55d5-4b4b-a8f6-c029c13794d2}')  -- Laptops    
  and a.ResourceGuid = b.Guid    
  and a.ResourceGuid not in (select _ResourceGuid from Evt_Aex_SWD_Execution where AdvertisementName = 'Pointsec Mandatory Install - 2-21-08')    
 order by b.name) xxx)
 
 

This will give you information on the status of Sequential Software Delivery Tasks which you can build dynamic collections in Altiris.

In your search criteria use the AdvertisementName of one of the programs that will execute within the Sequential task NOT the actual name of the Sequential task.

Select vc.name, vc.guid,st.status, st.exitcode, it.name 
From inv_synch_status st
  Join vcomputer vc on vc.guid = st._resourceguid Join item it on st.taskid = it.guid

Where st.synchronizationid in 
	(select guid from item where name Like '%%)
and st.status = 'completed'

Order by it.name

I recently has this error when I logged onto the NS box and opened the NS console. To my surprise I wasn't greeted with the normal NS console, but instead I was faced with this:

Click to view.

The way I resolved this error was either to restart all the services related to the Notification Server or do a repair on the SQL database. If restarting the services didn't do the job for me, then a repair would normally do the trick.

I would like to hear from anyone who has also experienced this error and ways they resolved the problem.

We have Altiris Notification Server with a few solutions for about 15 months now. Currently NS manages 1500 client PCs. Altiris provides great solutions and they are very easy to modify for your environment. But a few months ago I discovered two problems that took me some time to investigate...

The first problem was quite easy and straight forward:

IIS log files were in the region of 8 Gb. One day I received an alert message that Notification Server hosting machine is running out of space on the drive C:\.

After looking at folders and files size I have found that IIS log files were in the region of 8 Gb. These log files are created by IIS, but are never deleted.

I have asked people who have more knowledge in IIS than I do and they told me that there is no mechanism in IIS to automatically...