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discussion comment 19 Jul 2010

Dave Summerson commented on: Purge Database?

If you are seeing the assets listed on your report from your asset management server yet, that is because they are still on there until you mark them as disposed, or in your case deleted. The AM server retains all historical data for an ...

discussion comment 29 Apr 2010

Dave Summerson commented on: Image Basics? XP Image and Domains

Kris, sounds typical... :) You keep everything in case you need it, then when you need it, it can't be found. The story of my life.

discussion comment 28 Apr 2010

Dave Summerson commented on: Image Basics? XP Image and Domains

We do not connect our build image to the network before the image is complete because of the following reason. For one thing, it will download the current domain policies to the image which we do not want and the machine name goes ...

discussion comment 08 Mar 2010

Dave Summerson commented on: Tying external PO's to software licenses and purchases

Thanks once again guys. both of you had good responses. I believe we will add a custom field for internal PO's. Guru's explanation describes the exact problem I was having, and his solution is spot on. Dave

discussion comment 26 Feb 2010

Dave Summerson commented on: Tying external PO's to software licenses and purchases

One more thing that is bugging me... One of my screens is now not showing up. I am not sure why, as it was here 2 days ago. When I go to create a new license now, it is not there either... Ideas???

discussion comment 26 Feb 2010

Dave Summerson commented on: Tying external PO's to software licenses and purchases

I am thinking that you are adding your new fields to this piece? It would make sense to put the PO# here...

discussion comment 26 Feb 2010

Dave Summerson commented on: Tying external PO's to software licenses and purchases

Thanks! I will look into that aspect of adding our own PO custom field. Dave

New forum discussion 26 Feb 2010

Dave Summerson posted: Tying external PO's to software licenses and purchases

I need a solution My question might be easily answered, but it is eluding me. We do not use the PO system in Altiris. We want to import our PO information through a connector and from what I can figure out so far, software and

discussion comment 11 Feb 2010

Dave Summerson commented on: Question on Software Licenses and Purchases - How do I ...

I found that I am not high enough in the food chain to have that piece listed on my tasks, thats why I couldnt see it... :) One of the main DBA's for Altiris does show it. I will work to have them give me privs. Thanks!

discussion comment 11 Feb 2010

Dave Summerson commented on: Need to set Primary user to prev month user

Thanks!!! dave

discussion comment 11 Feb 2010

Dave Summerson commented on: "Last Logged On User" doesn't always populate - Why?

Anyone... ???

discussion comment 11 Feb 2010

Dave Summerson commented on: Question on Software Licenses and Purchases - How do I ...

Would this be in Asset Management piece or a seperate App Metering piece? I show Inventory – Windows – Inventory Tasks - Software Inventory under Tasks and didnt know if that is the same thing.

discussion comment 11 Feb 2010

Dave Summerson commented on: Need to set Primary user to prev month user

If I may kick the tiger once more to understand... :), Your results above will give me names for only the assets that have no primary user for the current month, correct? If there is a user for the current month, it will use that ...

discussion comment 10 Feb 2010

Dave Summerson commented on: Need to set Primary user to prev month user

You guys are saints! Thanks! dave

New forum discussion 10 Feb 2010

Dave Summerson posted: Question on Software Licenses and Purchases - How do I ...

I need a solution Ok, time for another question of the day. This time it revolves around setting up license resources. I am using version 6.5 Asset Management and went through the great tutorials done by bkaulins. LInk here:

discussion comment 10 Feb 2010

Dave Summerson commented on: Need to set Primary user to prev month user

Guru, this one ran, however I have a question. It seems to have outputted all data for previous months (I had 160k rows generated from about 17,000 assets...). Note on the screenshot below that it lists all months for that ...

discussion comment 09 Feb 2010

Dave Summerson commented on: How can I find out what PCs have a certain desktop icon using Altiris 6.5?

How about creating a collection? It is very easy to do. Under collections, create a new collection. Expand Query and select Resource type - Computer Click on the pencil for No FIlters On next page, click on add ...

discussion comment 09 Feb 2010

Dave Summerson commented on: Need to set Primary user to prev month user

I am getting an error when testing in SQL server management studio... See below. dave

discussion comment 09 Feb 2010

Dave Summerson commented on: Asset Management 6.5 Reporting Issue....

This is out of the box which is even better! We input the date received in the Accounting data class - Available for use through a data import we create. Once it hits the inventory server and is synced up to the Altiris database, ...

discussion comment 03 Feb 2010

Dave Summerson commented on: Asset Management 6.5 Reporting Issue....

Here is a quick report I whipped up. You will need to add an additional join for your table which holds the asset type info (laptop, desktop, server, etc.). This report gives pc name, serial number and acquisition date. We ...