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Dagent and Windows Server 2008 - User Profiles are not deleted

Geert Volkaerts | 18 Feb 2010 | 0 comments

Hi,

Anyone who has the same issue?

Installed version of RDP/Deployment Server:

DS 6.9 (Build 365) / RDP 3.83

It seems that when the DAgent is running, the User Profiles are not cleaned up. For a normal server running server applications this is not immediately visible. But for Citrix/Terminal Server, this issue causes disk space problems.

Only solution till now is stopping the agent, restarting the server and cleaning op the User Profiles and only starting the DAgent when it's needed for management. Nevertheless, this is a worthless workaround for optimized server management.

Anyone who has the same problem and has a solution for this?

Altiris Support: Is there an upcoming patch solving this, as many customers will have this issue?

Thanks a lot!

Top 10 Reasons to Migrate to Server Management Suite 7.0.

AndyDrew | 12 Feb 2010 | 0 comments

Hi All

I posted a similar blog with regards to Client Management Suite 7 so I thought I would follow the trend and do the same thing with Server Management Suite 7. So here are the top reasons why your organisation should be considering moving to Altiris Server Management Suite 7.0.

1. Simplified migration

Server Management Suite 7.0 is easy to install and configure. Guided configuration wizards step you through the installation process and built in migration utilities transfer existing data, collections, and pre-built reports to preserve the unique settings that work for you today. Migrations can be performed as an on-box migration or you can migrate to new hardware with easy-to-use wizards. Symantec also offers a complete line of services to help with implementation and upgrade strategies. For information about upgrading, see the Planning and Implementation Guide at http://www....

Encourage Membership

jmetzger2 | 28 Jan 2010 | 3 comments

Thank you to all of those who have joined the Altiris Cincinnati User Group. Please pass the information onto your team members and anyone else in the Cincinnati/Dayton/Northern Kentucky area. We would love to see this group grow and be able to host an event here in Cincinnati. Look forward to meeting all of those who use this fantastic product.

Altiris Beta Progam: Get Free Stuff

adtlink | 27 Jan 2010 | 0 comments

At Symantec, we constantly want to improve our products to ensure that we are meeting our customer's needs. As part of our effort to improve product quality and design, we are reaching out to our customers to collect information on how you are using the product. We are looking for your top 'Usage Situations', how you use the product.

Also referred to as a Use-Case Scenario, a Usage Situation is a description of how you employ the functionality of the Altiris product. What are the top 3-10 tasks that you are required to accomplish in a given day? We would like to capture this information. Please note that you may submit...

Open Resource Manager to Find Computer, User or Package Directly

Jan Trnka | 21 Jan 2010 | 2 comments

I could see that many Altiris Operators always open NS Console first, which is not always needed.
You can launch Resource Manager directly when you seek for particular computer using such link:
http://<SERVER>/Altiris/Resource/ResourceManagerConsole.aspx
where <SERVER> stands for FQDN or IP Address of your Notification Server.

In Find Resource dialog specify as many details as you can an all computers matching your criteria will be listed:

Click on selected computer to open Resource Manager, and work with details you look for.

The same way you can search for Users...

Configurator for Windows 2008 R2 Core Server

Oliver Kiel | 05 Jan 2010 | 0 comments

This is a very cool tool to configure the MS core server by a GUI. I know, this sounds strange, but it makes it pretty fast to use core servers for everyone not too familiar with PowerShell etc.
It is freeware and published under the Microsoft Public License (MS PL).
On the website you'll also find a version for 2008 R1, as this one here is ONLY working with R2.
On the website you'll find the download as .iso (for direct mounting in VMs) and as .exe for use with physical machines.

Here's the website: http://coreconfig.codeplex.com/

Hope, this helps you to use the Cores!

All the best,
Oliver

New Version of Symantec Installation Manager (7.0.553), Now Handling Compressed pl.xml File Download?

Ludovic Ferre | 22 Dec 2009 | 5 comments

I'm not sure that this is totally new but I have only noticed it now, apparently related to some side effect of the changes or may be not (see forum entry here).

SIM now handles compressed pl.xml so the download process is much faster than before, because the compressed xml file is now 3.4MB versus 19.3MB uncomrpessed. This is a pretty good compression ratio of 5.74.

And it has a direct impact on user experience, as the following screen shots do show a download time difference using the raw versus zip download path. First I had to make sure the zip path is in use in the registry (not default yet):

SIM_pl.xml_Zipped.png

Then download took 9 seconds!

...

New Symantec.pl.xml file (7.0.13) is out on SolutionSam featuring Data Loss Prevention Integration Component 10

Ludovic Ferre | 07 Dec 2009 | 0 comments

Md5 hash = 4a62f26791e52e19998f7704f3cc7a34

Modified date = 2009-12-07 05:29:33
File size = 19,000,354 (19MB)

A quick diff (attached) shows some interesting changes listed here:

Global version upgrade from 7.0.12 to 7.0.13
Addition of product "Data Loss Prevention Integration Component" (v10.0.0)
Addition of package "Agentmgmt x86" (v10.0.0)

The pl.xml file is downloaded automatically by Symantec Installation Manager when the program is started.

{CWoc} Getting Started with an Altiris Specific IIS Log File Analyzer

Ludovic Ferre | 08 Dec 2009 | 0 comments

Content:

Introduction
IIS default log files format (W3C Extended)
Design goals
Design overview
Getting started with implementation
Your input to {CWoC}
Conclusion

Introduction

One very interesting repository for historical data found on the Notification Server is often the least epxloited one: the IIS log files contian data on the workload recorded per day generally over the entire server life time (I was on a customer server where this folder was taking 50+ GB!!!).

But how can this data be utilised efficiently, as the log files can be very large (from a few tens of MB to 800MB in the worse case I experienced)? I have worked out a few small tools uploaded now on the Google code site related to...

Connect Winter of Code {CWoC} or Open sourcing my existing NS tools and preparing to build new ones

Ludovic Ferre | 05 Dec 2009 | 0 comments

on { Collaboration, community & open source -> CWoC }

I spent some times thinking about tools and Notification Server, specially with new requirement to fill some gaps in analysis tools (for example IIS log files contain a great deal of info that can't be analyzed with standard log analyzers) but I have not done anything about this in the last year or so. Possibly due to a falling out between me and Microsoft Visual Studio (and also because newly born Sophie deserved all my love and attention).

I got over it (the VS stuff, Sophie still gets the love and attention), and found a new set of friends: the c# compiler on Windows (csc.exe) and Mono on Linux (a port of the Common Language Infrastructure ECMA standard open sourced by Novell).

With the addition of Google Code project hosting this is me set for a "Connect Winter of Code" {CWoC} (in opposition to Google SoC :D). I think it actually make sense to...

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