Building Better Collections for Software Delivery

Creating collections for your software deployment can be a bewildering task for those new to the Altiris suites. In this series of articles, Ian Atkin provides some tips on how to target your software delivery process, restricting deployment to computers which specifically require your packages. This approach provides you with much more power over the deployment, and in addition saves valuable network bandwidth. As collections are at their heart SQL queries, these articles will also lead you through the process of creating your own collection queries and provide details how functions can be used to enhance your code.