Hi Connect Members,

what a great tool from microsoft, it will restore a shared computer back to its original configuration through a simple power cycle. Steady­State protects shared computers by effectively turning them into stateless appliances that can revert to your desired configuration at any time. A must have tool.Thanks.

link-www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx

Regards
"RAM CHAMPION"

Hi Connect Members,

Any change which is intentional can be recorded, but in case if its not something not noticed & specially with workstations running windows Xp , it can create problems & disappointment when things dont work as expected, Than suddenly we think what has changed or what we have changed, No worries, not to think any more, Microsoft has a tool that will not only let u know what are the changes but help you to troubkeshoot the XP systems issues, It works in following scenario-

1. Software Programs—installed applications, such as those listed in Add/Remove Programs
2. Windows hotfixes and other OS updates
3. Windows drivers and services
4. ActiveX controls downloaded via Internet Explorer
5. Browser Helper Objects (BHOs)—typically toolbars and other items that load with your browser
6. Auto-Start Extensibility Points (ASEPs)—programs that start automatically without user action.

I have used a...

Following a recent Patch Tuesday run, some client machines that met the criteria for some patch applications, attempted to run the installation of certain patches - and received a client-side status messages in the Altiris Agent of "Run Failed" or 'Failed to Start" and exit codes of either 87 or -2147942402.   With much consternation, lots of ideas were tossed about.  These messages were not typical messages that pointed towards a simple explanation and solution.  While the clues were not clear, the solution did end up being pretty simple.

But after reviewing the Patch Task configurations for the affected bulletins, it was noticed that for some reason, the source locations for the packages were blank.  Once configured, and package sources were updated, the packages installed correctly on the affected client  machines.

In each of these cases, the bulletins were actually present on the client machine, but not able...

The pcAnywhere Host Administrator tool lets you remotely manage the hosts on your network.

It lets you do the following:

* Remotely start, stop, and connect to pcAnywhere hosts on the network
* Create configuration groups to remotely manage and configure multiple workstations on the network
* Simultaneously distribute pcAnywhere configuration files, including host, remote, and caller files, to multiple workstations on the network.

As pcAnywhere Host Administrator dose not support deleting any host (.bhf) or call (.chf) files "on a remote machine", the work around at this stage is to modify the original one, or create a new file with same name as the old one.