Periodically, packages deployed using NS7 to newly installed agents that have not been rebooted yet may fail with an Exit code of 1618.

This is caused by a hung instance(s) of the MSIEXEC.EXE service (this is the Windows Installer component used to install deployed MSI packages).  It is likely that you will see multiple instances of this process in process explorer.

In order to resolve this deployment issue and expedite the installation of the packages in a failed state, simply end all of the processes using the MSIEXEC.EXE service (make sure you're NS7 agent is not currently installing any packages, and that you are not installing any software outside of the agent).  After terminating...

To install a MUI Language for XP we folow these steps:

1 ) Download the the MUI Pack with the language(s) you need.
2 ) Get the latest MUIsetup.exe from SP3 and replace the one included in the MUI pack download.
3 ) Execute it using this command line where "0416" is your language code, in this case Portugese.
 
muisetup.exe /i 0416 /d 0416 /r /s

4 ) Then we execute another command that changes Regional Settings for all users that log onto that machine again using the language code in the BR.TXT file.

rundll32.exeshell32,Control_RunDLL intl.cpl,,/F:"BR.TXT"

The BR.TXT file has the following information:
[RegionalSettings]
LanguageGroup = 1
UserLocale = 00000416
SystemLocale = 00000416
InputLocale = 0416:00000416
MUILanguage = 0416
UserLocale_DefaultUser = 00000416
InputLocale_DefaultUser = 0416:00000416
MUILanguage_DefaultUser =...

Notification Server 6.5 SP3 + R10
Suites Installed: 
Altiris IT Analytics
Altiris IT Analytics Asset Management Pack
Altiris IT Analytics Client Management Pack
We recently received new licenses for our NS as a part of the AUP maintenance and after installing the new licenses we noticed the number of licenses had increased for some of the suites we owned but our IT Analytics licenses were not in synch and as a result IT Analytics stopped working.  IT Analytics Client Management Pack was exceeded due to the fact that our Patch Management, Software Delivery, and other Invetory licenses had increased beyond what IT Analytics was originally

After uninstalling and reinstalling the...

The new Dell Optiplex 960 model line isn't currently fully supported by the Dell Client Manager 2.2 and also apparently 3.0, although I have had limited testing with that.  In particular there was a need to change a BIOS setting for the 960's pertaining to the C-State control.  The issue that was coming up is stuttering video in some applications due to the C-State control under performance settings in the Dell BIOS.  To remedy this we created a VB Script to query the Dell OMCI via WMI and change the setting to off for the C-State control.

Option Explicit

Dim strNameSpace
Dim strClassName
Dim strKeyValue
dim strPropName
Dim strPropValue

strNameSpace = "root/Dellomci"
strClassName = "Dell_SMBIOSsettings"
strKeyValue = "0"
strPropName = "CStatesControl"

Set objInstance = GetObject("WinMgmts://./" & strNameSpace & ":" & strClassName & "=" & Chr(34) &...