Archive for the ‘Altiris’ Category
Upcoming Webinar: The SymEd Licensing Program: Protect, Manage, Secure
December 4th, 2012
Join security and endpoint management experts XCEND and Symantec for this live webinar on Wednesday, December 5th at 2pm ET. We will be discussing how SymEd solutions can help your organization achieve ease of licensing and cost savings. The SymEd …
Connecting People, Process, and Information: Workflow & Analytics Roadshow
October 23rd, 2012
You're invited to join global security leader Symantec and national Platinum Partner XCEND for a lunch event to learn how Workflow, Reporting, and Analytics can help your organization leverage its existing infrastructure investments to solve some of IT's biggest issues: …
XCEND Announces Release of Patch Management Dashboard for Symantec
December 7th, 2011
Brighton, Michigan: XCEND announced today the release of the Patch Management Dashboard for Symantec, leveraging the company’s MetriX IT Performance Dashboard solution to offer IT organizations the ability to monitor and manage their patch compliance in real time. The plug-and-play …
Back by Popular Demand: Migrating to Altiris 7.1 – Best Practices from the Field
June 3rd, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT For most of our Altiris customers, the question is not WHY they should migrate to ITMS 7. 1: significant improvements in performance and scalability as well as intuitive new features have …
XCEND Tech Tips: Using Restricted Groups to Add the Altiris NS Service Account to Workstations Local Admin Group
September 24th, 2010
In order to push out the Altiris NS Agent via the Altiris Install option, the account used to push the Altiris Agent (usually the application identity account, though this can be overridden) must have the following security rights: Write access …
XCEND Tech Tips: Installing/Upgrading the Altiris Agent via Active Directory Group Policy Startup Scripts – NS7
September 22nd, 2010
[Download a PDF version of this entry] Ever since the release of Windows Vista and the UAC (User Account Control), installing software via logon and startup scripts has changed. In most situations, most Altiris administrators will opt to rollout …
XCEND Tech Tips: Creating Dynamic Collections & Filters In Altiris Notification Server 6x Without Knowing SQL
September 1st, 2010
Part 1: Six steps to creating dynamic collections and filters in Altiris Notification Server 6x without knowing how to write a SQL Query. (Watch for Part 2, in which we will go over examples of how to do the same thing with …
XCEND Tech Tips: Altiris Administrator’s Checklist
August 9th, 2010
Compiled by several of XCEND's experienced technical consultants, this valuable guide is designed to give Altiris administrators a single-page overview of the most important tasks that must be maintained on a regularbasis. Download a PDF version of this checklist Daily …
XCEND Tech Tips: Recovering lost storage space with Altiris Inventory Solution 7
July 20th, 2010
From Technical Solutions Expert Ben Markowitz: Have you ever wondered what is taking up space on your file servers? Altiris Inventory Solution includes a report titled ‘Disk usage by file extension’. While this is an excellent starting point, the default …
