Great call today, Altiris support is like a box of chocolate, unless you are nice to some people and they can get you connected with the right people.
Chatted for a while with Thomas Baird today, he's brilliant like Brent Bishop. 2 of the smartest Altiris guys I've ever had a chance to working with. So on with the items of the day.
We narrowed our top production issues to 3 main items, with a bunch of sub-issues that I sent to Symantec in an email hoping to have the DS team adress with some efficiency.
Issue 1. Machines gets a Device not capable at times. So the issues stems from inventory more than SBS as we originally thought. The NSE processing as Inventory vs Initial Deploy. So Changes were made to initial deploy and testing continues I will say now image to existing machines do work(See issues 3 for more details) but new machines remains to be tested. So the beta solution is fake a InitialDeployment task and get the NSE in with a higher priority.
Issue 2. x86 WinPE does not work for completing the Ghost job for Unattended.xml copy because of Firm.exe missing from the TaskHandler folder on the PXE servers. Copied file over and all seems ok.
Issue 3. Cannnot deploy a image on a child server due to the image cannot be associated with any serial numbers. There is a kb on Altiris for meta data association, and turns out our image capture did not set the OS to to anything but "Unknown" Changed that in the SQL server to Windows 7 Enterprise and all is ok.
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