Software Delivery

This 20 minute video covers software license management using Altiris Inventory and Software Delivery Solutions. It shows you how to configure your collections, packages and tasks. It also shows you how you can use the ACST tool already posted on the Juice.

Many applications require a database backend. If you wish to install one of these applications using NSIS, you will need a way to run a .SQL file as part of the install. This article will explain how to configure your NSIS script to run a .SQL file against a SQL Server and Database.

In order for a Linux client to be setup as a package server, it must be identified as a package server candidate. One of the criteria is that the machine have a role of 'Apache HTTP Server'. The role is stored in the 'AeX AC Roles' data class and 'Inv_aex_ac_roles' table. How does the Agent for Unix on a client machine identify this role?

Part of nearly every Altiris Notification Server implementation includes Software Delivery. Software Delivery enables us to, well, deliver software, but also provides us distribution points, policy-based actions on client computers, and repeatable, dependent rollout of system and application changes. No doubt the longer you have utilized Software Delivery, the more collections, packages, and tasks you have created. When it comes time to rebuild your Notification Server or move to a new NS, migrating the SWD infrastructure can become very, very time consuming. This article will demonstrate how to migrate your existing SWD tasks to a newly built server without recreating all the necessary items by hand.

I have seen a lot of Juice Articles about creating, editing, and modifying MSI installers. But I have not seen one that explains how to use Wise SetupCapture to capture an install of any application, or any change to a computer for that matter, into an MSI installer. If you have Deployment Server, you have Wise SetupCapture in the Wise folder of your eXpress share. I have written this short article as a quick start guide to using Wise SetupCapture.

There are many reasons you might want to convert your existing and forthcoming application installs to use NullSoft Install System (NSIS). NSIS installs are only a single .exe file, they are small, and they are fast.

In my previous article Using NSIS to Build Application Installers, I explained the benefits of using NSIS to build installers and how to make a basic installer. In this article, I will expound on what you learned in the previous article. If you have not read the previous article, I strongly recommend you do that before continuing.