Security & Compliance

Basics for Securing Terminal Service Environment

Harsh — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:00:54 -0500

Security plays a very vital role for any computer network, and for Terminal Service environment it is very important to measure security concerns.

One example: Users are running applications directly on the server. If a potential vulnerability exists in an application or in the server's configuration exists, then the vulnerability could potentially be utilized in an attempt to gain access to the fundamental operating system.

Security & Compliance

Best Practice Guide How Configure BitLocker

Harsh — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:55:10 -0500

To protect sensitive data on your PC, encryption methods always helpful.

BitLocker Drive Encryption is security feature in the Windows Vista operating system that provides protection for the operating system on your computer and data stored on the operating system volume.

Security & Compliance

NS EventQ Cleanup Script

Antonp — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:53:30 -0500

Everyone has seen the "Bad" folders in NS Event queues and if not deleted they grow and grow, waste disk space and also decrease server performance.

Yes, you can manually delete them, but people tend to forget about them.

I created this script so that I don't have to repeat the same job over and over again and waste time, this script does it automatically for me.

Deployment & Migration

Using Deployment Solution to Reset Local User Account Passwords

Antonp — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:11:51 -0500

Resetting a local user account on one or more computers on your network, whether they are in a domain or workgroup, using Altiris Deployment Solution is very simple.

Making use of Micrsoft's commands to create a script that will do this for you.

Deployment & Migration

Kerberos Authentication of Intel vPro in an Altiris Environment

Terry Cutler — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:14:24 -0500

If you plan to use Kerberos authentication yet are not familiar with nor own the Microsoft Active Directory infrastructure in your environment, share this article with those who do manage that environment. You will need their assistance to be successful, especially since some of the steps will require directory administrator rights to complete.

Intel | Altiris

Best Practices for Optimizing SQL Server in SAN Environments Using Altiris Products

BRING — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:35:55 -0500

This article includes items to be aware of when using SAN technology with SQL Server and Altiris products. Thanks to the Notification Server Sustained Engineering team for initial development work on this document.

Asset & CMDB

Patching the Vulnerabilities in DS6.8 and DS6.9

ianatkin — Thu, 22 May 2008 11:56:29 -0500

I put this on the Altiris Forums a little while ago, but thought it might be useful to place here too.

The link below describes half-a-dozen security vulnerabilities which appear to be only fixed by UPGRADING to DS 6.9 plus the hotfixes www.symantec.com/avcenter/security. Here are the steps I took to remedy the problem.

Deployment & Migration

Critical Exploit in Deployment Solution - How to Patch

craze — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:31:20 -0500

There are multiple exploits, or vulnerabilities, in Altiris' Deployment Solution software that have recently been discovered by Brett Moore of Insomnia Security and Alex Hernandez of Syb Security. The vulnerability is considered as an elevation of privileges vulnerability and is classified as moderate severity to highly critical.

Security & Compliance

Symantec Endpoint Protection Integration with Notification Server

vortex0007 — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:05:22 -0500

Symantec's next-generation endpoint protection product is one of the first solutions to be integrated with the Altiris Notification Server platform. This article discusses the integration points.

Security & Compliance

ManageFusion 08 Las Vegas, a Video Overview

erikw — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:57:46 -0500

ManageFusion 2008 brought us some interesting things. Unfortunately not everybody is able to attend ManageFusion. But the good news is that lots of us that attended ManageFusion placed videos on the Internet.

Application Virtualization & Streaming