Management

This 20 minute video shows you how to get the most out of using the Altiris Resource Viewer and the Real Time System Manager.

This is often one of the most overlooked tools from Altiris.

This tool was created for remotely managing SVS using WMI. It's based on the SVSWMI.CS class posted on the Juice.

You can Activate, deactivate, reset and delete packages using this tool. You can also view the videos on how this tool was made on the Juice.

This is part two of a series that teaches you how to create your own SVS Remote tool. (See part one here).

This 40-minute video shows you the code behind the scenes that makes it all work.

This is part one of a two part series that will teach you how to create your own SVS Remote tool. (See part two here.)
This 15-minute video teaches you how to create the user interface using Visual Studio 2005. The next video will show you the code behind the scenes that makes it all work.

Jordan wrote an excellent article that outlined a class he wrote for using SVS's WMI provider.

However his class was written for use on a local machine. I've rewritten all the properties and methods so that they can be run on any machine, local or remote.

Deployment Server 6.9 adds the ability to remote control your clients from the Console using any remote control application you want. There are many free remote control options available. My personal preference is UltraVNC. It offers good performance, file transfer, video driver, encryption, MS logon, text chat, multiple-monitors-support, auto reconnection, and a few plugins.

Being able to perform out-of-band remote power control actions on a server can be a necessity in distributed environments. This article will walk you through some of power control's mysteries, such as power control types, how they are used, and a few tricks that can be pulled to make 10G hardware more easily accessible through the DS console.

If you have been holding back on installing Office 2007, you will most likely be installing Office 2007 on a multitude of systems. If you have already created a distribution method for Office 2007, turn around, do not pass go, this document is not for you. If you have not undertaken this journey yet, hold on to your pants and continue reading. The goal of this document is to help you achieve a comfort level that will take you into the advanced features of creating a silent installation, without you having to step into the same pot holes as I did. Please comment on this document in order to make future documents even better.

Ever needed a script to ping a computers before performing some action against them? I have! I hate waiting forever for a script to complete because the list of computers were all offline.