Symantec Deployment Solution (Altiris)/Ghost Solution Suite - Platform...
To better share information on supported platforms in the Symantec Deployment products this series of articles provides updates on the OS and hardware platforms either deprecated, supported, in...
View ArticleSymantec Deployment Solution (Altiris)/Ghost Solution Suite - Mac OS X 10.10...
Deployment Solution 7.xMac OS X 10.10 is being worked on and an early support statement identifying what works with the current shipping product will be available shortly (Nov 2014). Full support will...
View ArticleSymantec Deployment Solution (Altiris)/Ghost Solution Suite - RHEL 5.11...
We are working on RHEL 5.11 support and will be communicating an early support statement soon detailing what works in the current release. Support will likely be added in a future hotfix which is yet...
View ArticleSymantec Deployment Solution (Altiris)/Ghost Solution Suite - Windows 10...
Windows 10 support is being investigated. Current reports indicate that core Ghost functionality is working in the pre-release version although this has not been fully verified by Symantec.We will...
View ArticleUK Government Identity Assurance
GOV.UK: Verify is the UK govenment replacement to the current government gateway ID solution. The GDS (Government Digital Services) as due to release the framework 2 at the end of November 2014 for...
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High Availability for converged infrastructure in data centres
Data Center Architecture In data centers like Cisco's UCS (Unified Computing System), every server be it blade or rack-mount, is provisioned through a Service Profile. Just the way a SIM card holds an...
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How To remove Unwanted PXE Menu Items in Deployment Solution 7.1 & 7.5
In Deployment Solution 7.1 & 7.5, it is not clear how to remove unwanted PXE boot menu items. This must be done with a SQL script to take it out of the dataabase. This PXE script will clean up...
View Article{CWoC} Details of the code behind the Altiris IIS Log Analyzer versions 2...
Table of ContentIntroductionCleaning up the constants classOverview of the constants classGoing deep: looking at the mime type handling codeMime type JSON output sampleAdding new mime types...
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IT Analytics for Data Loss Prevention - Custom Attribute Utility
IT Analytics DLP pack offers several predefined cubes out-of-the-box. As part of the DLP pack, the custom attribute name and custom attribute value dimension are included. These two dimensions...
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Getting alerted for package servers with package download failures
Recently my organization has had some issues with package servers failing to download packages or the packages backing up because of agent throttling. To be more proactive towards these sorts of...
View ArticleTechnical White Paper: Protect Your Cisco UCS Domain with Symantec NetBackup
This is a technical whitepaper on how to protect Cisco UCS service profiles using Symantec NetBackup. More information on the significance of protecting UCS service profiles and a technical...
View ArticleGOV.UK: Verify - Market Engagement Event
Slide deck from the GOV.UK: verify market enagement event in October 2014Market_Engagement_Day_30_October_2014_FINAL__2_.pdf
View ArticleAltiris Agent for Mac - Support for Mac OS X 10 Yosemite
This article is in regards to the SMP Agent for Mac 7.x and Mac OS X 10 (Yosemite). Symantec will release an early support statement for running the agent on Yosemite on or about November 4th. A full...
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Integrating Bomgar Remote Appliance with Altiris ITMS
With the support of pcAnywhere slowly being phased out we begun looking at remote support alternatives this year and just recently purchased a Bomgar Remote Support appliance. At this time there is no...
View ArticleSymantec Backup Exec 2014 Blueprints - Performance Tuning
The Technical Services team for Backup and Recovery have produced a number of documents we call "Blueprints".These Blueprints are designed to show backup and recovery challenges around specific...
View ArticleHow To use multiple Language dictionaries in ServiceDesk
ServiceDesk uses a 3rd party spell checker: https://www.karamasoft.com/ultimatespell/features.aspxOne can reference multiple dictionaries with the following steps:1) Download the updated Dictionaries...
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How to set up a Serverless (Standalone) installation of Symantec Endpoint...
Before we begin, I would like to let the reader know that the preferred product for standalone installations is Symantec Encryption Desktop. This guide is intended for managed environments already...
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How To Leverage JavaScript in the Workflow 'Form Builder' Component
This article builds upon the following: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/videos/adding-custom-javascript-workflow-web-forms-videoThe 1st example shows how to strip HTML tags from a 'Multiline...
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How To Translate the DateTime value of the Workflow DateTimePicker component
The Workflow DateTimePicker component uses the Language definition from your Browser to determine the format of the 'Output Data' variable. Here is what Firefox could say: In this example, the...
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Auto notification about Agent service crash via mail and further connection...
What is required to create such environment, where you will be able to receive mail notifications about Agent service crash from any of available managed endpoints via mail?This scenario is applicable...
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