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Welcome to the 0direction blog! My name is Cory and I am a 10 year veteran of the IT industry currently working for MaximumASP as a Senior System Engineer specializing in Storage and Disaster Recovery. If you find something here that helps you, please leave a comment! If you see something that could be improved or have a question, please send me some feedback! Happy scripting! -Cory

Manually removing an Altiris Recovery Solution server from a cluster

Ive run into this issue multiple times now. Here is the situation:

Using Altiris Recovery Solution
Have a cluster with a single Recovery Solution server in it
The Recovery Solution server goes down and is not recoverable
The Recovery Solution server is rebuilt on the same hardware and put back into Altiris

At this point, if Altiris does its [...]

January 14th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: altiris, recovery solution | Leave a comment

VB script to update NS Agent config

I ran across this the other day. This is a bit of VB script (Visual Basic script) that you can run on a Windows client to update the configuration of said client. Used in conjunction with a scripting method (say…Powershell?), this can be very handy for ad-hoc Altiris configuration updates of clients when [...]

December 15th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: altiris | Leave a comment