Software Delivery Solution

This is a small script to change the Notification Server an Agent is pointing to remotely. It's a very basic script. There is not any error checking nor arguments that can be passed.

Active Directory and Altiris Notification Server seem to have a love hate relationship. The Active Directory connector loves to import user names and computer names, but it hates to do anything related to group membership. A common request has been the ability to incorporate user group information from Active Directory into collections in order to allow user based software delivery. In other words, install Quickbooks to all of the users who are in the Accounting OU. This tip steps through how to accomplish this.

This article shows the troubleshooting methodology we use in Altiris Support to diagnose and remedy problems reported with Software Delivery Task Executions. As there are several components involved with a Task, this document covers all the mechanisms and potential problem points with the execution. This document does not cover download issues, though the symptoms associated with it are provided for reference.

I have been tasked with locking down our Macintosh workstations. The only goal so far has been to set a screen saver idle time and to require a password to wake the computer from sleep or screen saver.

Our company just ran into this issue. We are undergoing a transition of employees from one section of the building to another section of the building. One of the challenges that we faced is getting the printers installed on the employees new locations. We used a combination of Altiris Software Delivery Solution and the Software Portal to publish printer install tasks to the end users to install the printers at their location.

I ran across this scenario this week and thought you might be interested in an easy way to brand the software portal with your corporate logo.

In this article, I hope to shed some light on the process involved when creating collections for software delivery. To put the article into context, I'll be covering the key points with respect to an Adobe Reader upgrade to version 8.1.2.