Rod, Thanks - I knew you were going to say that:-) The Juice community is not very active, I consider that an important part of the equation. Yes, we are looing at sccm too. We don't have Software Assurance, but you can purchase SCCM outright: http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/configurationmanager/en/us/pricing-licensing.aspx
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Rod Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should definitely add ConfigMgr 2007 to your short list. > > > > Much cheaper than Altiris. Altiris may seem inexpensive to start out, but > just like LANDesk and others, it gets pretty expensive the more you add to > the product. ConfigMgr 2007 has it all built in (i.e., you don't have to > purchase more add-ons to make it work). ConfigMgr 2007 also deploys non-MS > patches and you can deploy anything else you want, too. > > > > Plus, there's a huge ConfigMgr 2007 community over at myITforum.com that > can help you 24x7. Those other products don't have that. Altiris will tell > you that they have their Juice community – but it's not as active and the > Altiris folks don't monitor it. At myITforum.com you can generally get an > answer to question in minutes, sometimes from a product manager at > Microsoft. > > > > *From:* Devin Meade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 12, 2008 4:04 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Altirs Client Management Suite > > > > Anyone using Altiris Client Management Suite? Its now a symantec product > (strike one). I have been playing around with it and its much less > intuitive that WSUS3 for MS patching (strike 2). It seems that to deploy > non-MS patches, I have to create a custom package. Compared to shavlik or > landesk I can just check a box -- it's much more complicated to patch adobe > reader or flash etc.. That's just my take after about a day of screwing > around with this piece of garbage. It seems like I will spend more time > working around the inefficiencies of this product than it would save me > time. It has a definite "NT3.51 feel"... Oh and I can't get the remote > control agent to do ANYTHING, sheesh. > > -Devin > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
