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HP SmartStart Scripting Toolkit for HP Servers

Martin Charker — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:16:47 -0500

Here's the scenario: you have an HP server and you need to rebuild it. To do this you need to pxe boot it, but its off site and you have no remote view when the OS is not up :-( Well I had to do this and not just 1 server... double :-( Luckily I came across a tool in the HP SmartStart Scripting Toolkit, called setbootorder.exe.

Application Packaging

Create Disk Image job (Deployment Solution 6.5)

steveadams — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:29:01 -0500

HI,

I'm new to altiris (3 days!) and I'm creating a new master image for the HP T5730 XPe.
I'm trying to upload an image using an automation job in ther console.

When I modify the job image path and name I keep getting an error that the path doesn't exists.

HP | Altiris

Best Practices: Secure Mobility through Manageable Virtualization

Juicemaster — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:54:58 -0500

Bob Taylor from HP and Brad Winston from Symantec talk about bringing together multiple virtualization technologies -- presentation, application and system-level -- mixing in some streaming and blades for good measure. Find out how combining technologies under a unified management umbrella can reduce costs and increase business agility at the same time, by optimally servicing the needs of different users: from warm-seat knowledge workers, to the mobile workforce and power-hungry technical workers.

Application Virtualization & Streaming

Upgradation of Software

S.Yuvaraj — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:21:25 -0500

Hi,

I have one doubt in upgradation using Altiris wise Package studio. Suppose if i want to upgrade the new version of Adobe Reader 8.0 means should i enter all the GUID of the earlier versions of Adobe reader(eg version4,5 etc)? Kindly clarify my doubts.

Application Packaging

SATA ICH9 Drivers: Windows XP Driver Injection Script

andyolly — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:14:38 -0500

I have taken the basis of a Microsoft workaround to take the out-of-the-box shipped XP IDE drivers and inject them into an image format to prevent the well recognized BSOD on boot-up.

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HP/Compaq 8510w Deployment Issue

dfnkt_ — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:19:36 -0600

Our company recently purchased several HP/Compaq 8510w notebooks.

When trying to capture an image from one (we set up to our standards) we received an error when PXE booting into WinPE. The machines boot into WinPE and then present a "Disk not Found" error. These laptops are using SATA hard drives so after some brief searching in the BIOS I Disabled a setting "SATA Native Mode" and retried the image capture.

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A Caution About Installation Depots on 64-bit Windows

gbromage — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:04:08 -0600

Just a quick heads-up in case this affects anyone else besides me.

I have a scripted deployment for Windows 2000 servers. It operates doing a PXE boot in DOS mode, copies the install files from the depot and runs the install.

All worked well, until I moved the depot to a 64-bit Windows machine. It turns out, the DOS mode network client doesn't seem to play nicely with 64 bit Windows.

Deployment & Migration

Want to Know What Assets Are Under Warranty?

neil_rogers — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:22:04 -0600

I recently received request for a report that would show which of our computers are covered by a warranty. I looked around and didn't see a report off hand (that was not tied to the expiration of the warranty) but I did see a lot of similar reports for expiring leases.

Hopefully my solution to this reporting problem will come in handy for someone else.

Asset & CMDB

Managing and Imaging HP Thin Clients Running XPe

shansen — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:07:56 -0600

A prerequisite to imaging thin clients is that PXE server needs to be installed and configured. Also the client's BIOS needs to be set as Network Boot as First in the Boot Order in order to be managed by a PXE Server.

Deployment & Migration

Skinny Things Still Need to be Managed

rglauser — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:45:26 -0600

Ten years ago, Altiris burst onto the systems management stage with a couple dozen employees and a Windows OS management product that helped automate deployment and data and settings migration. At the time we had some unique technology but faced stiff competition from the systems management incumbents.

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