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Jason Short

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Member for: 2 years 31 weeks
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Job Title: Product Manager - Workflow

Web Site: http://www.workflowswat.com

Member for: 2 years 31 weeks

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discussion comment 21 hours 24 min ago

Jason Short commented on: How to assign permissions to the workflow process ?

Published Workflow processes run with the permissions of the associated AppPool account. I would recommend creating a new AppPool utilizing a Service Account that has sufficient privileges to accomplish your desired actions, for example SQL ...

discussion comment 21 hours 32 min ago

Jason Short commented on: Workflow User Groups?

We are starting a Virtual Workflow User Group. Our initial plans are to meet four times a year (once a quarter) for an hour and a half over webex. Generally the agenda for each meeting will include a presentation on a specific ...

discussion comment 16 Jan 2012

Jason Short commented on: Upgrade Workflow From 7.1 SP1 to SP2

There seems to be some confusion here, to clarifty, you can do an implace upgrade of Workflow to WF7.1 SP2. The upgrade limitations only appy to ServiceDesk.

discussion comment 12 Jan 2012

Jason Short commented on: Upgrade Workflow From 7.1 SP1 to SP2

The no-upgrade message only applies to Service Desk. You are just fine upgrading Workflow. Sorry for the confusion, the SD upgrade has to do with the SD processes not with the Workflow framework. There are some great new ...

discussion comment 25 Oct 2011

Jason Short commented on: Service Desk 7.1 SP1 Satisfaction email

It sounds like you changed your WF/SD Server Name. Follow this article to update the root URL to point to the correct server name. https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/setting-root-url-and-respond-link

discussion comment 18 Oct 2011

Jason Short commented on: Double signed actions - Confirm password to perform action

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/perform-password-test-authenticate-user-workflow

New article 18 Oct 2011

Jason Short posted: Perform a Password Test to Authenticate a User in Workflow

There are three different methods you can use to Authenticate a User in Workflow. 1) Utilize IIS to authenticate a user for you. This is one of the best and easiest methods to authenticate a user in a workflow process, it acts as a "single sign on" if the user is on their

discussion comment 19 Jan 2011

Jason Short commented on: Obtain Direct Reports from Active Directory

Well, that will teach me to use the Connect infrastructure. Here is a link to the same video posted outside http://www.screencast.com/t/Or4EEGR7qoH

discussion comment 18 Jan 2011

Jason Short commented on: Obtain Direct Reports from Active Directory

Here is a link to a video on how to get direct reports. https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/videos/get-active-directory-reports-ad-workflow

New video 18 Jan 2011

Jason Short posted: Get Active Directory Reports in AD with Workflow

This video will demonstrate how to get a manager's direct reports out of active directory using workflow. GetADDirectReports.mp4

discussion comment 13 Jan 2011

Jason Short commented on: Obtain Direct Reports from Active Directory

As an alternative solution, you can always search on additional attributes in any of the native Active Directory search components. To get direct reports for a given user, try these steps: 1) Open a Get Users with Details Component ...

discussion comment 01 Sep 2010

Jason Short commented on: Workflow Q: Populating Drop Down List Component from AD Get User List

Watch this video on how to create a AD Search within a webform, this might give you what you are looking for: http://www.screencast.com/t/q83d3a2HLnB

discussion comment 03 Aug 2010

Jason Short commented on: Where is the download for Work Flow

You will need to use the SIM (Symantec Instillation Manager) to download the "Workflow Solution" From there, the Workflow install file will be found in the SMP (Symantec Management Platform or NS7)

discussion comment 14 May 2010

Jason Short commented on: SQL Component (Import Components)

Try these examples on WorkflowSWAT http://www.workflowswat.com/sql-generators/

discussion comment 21 Apr 2010

Jason Short commented on: Autonum Field

You can utilize the Auto Ticket number functionality in process reporting. Here is an example video: http://www.screencast.com/t/ODA2NmYzZjk

discussion comment 18 Feb 2010

Jason Short commented on: Issues with auto start workflows

I believe the issue you described has to do with authentication. Even though you have checked enable anonymous access, the fact that integrated windows authentication is also checked maybe causing the problem. My suggestion is to ...

blog entry comment 08 Feb 2010

jason_short@symantec.com commented on: Migrating to Windows 7? Get Started Here

Below is a link to an example Windows 7 Migration video built with Symantec Workflow and Altiris Deployment Solution. www.screencast.com/t/ZWI2Yzlh The video is about 15 min and shows a full Windows 7 Migration.

discussion comment 26 Jan 2010

jason_short@symantec.com commented on: Getting Data from an Array

I would use a "Configurable Collection Filter" component instead of a "For each item in collection", "text equals" and "add item to collection. it is a much more efficient method to get your desired ...

discussion comment 16 Sep 2009

jason_short@symantec.com commented on: Error during deployment

If you are still having trouble, have the Altiris agent on your machine re-checkin.

discussion comment 11 Sep 2009

jason_short@symantec.com commented on: Documentation for the Active Directory Generator in Workflow 7?

There are a series of active directory component videos at http://www.workflowswat.com/components/