RE: Slightly OT - Software Management Install on Exchange Servers

2003-08-14 Thread Waters, Jeff
Simple really, NO. Why would you need it? All that a software inventory, management, etc. tool is going to do is add overhead to a central resource. Have you had problems in the past with strange software just showing up on your servers? We do an annual inventory check of all our core systems.

RE: Slightly OT - Software Management Install on Exchange Servers

2003-08-14 Thread Waters, Jeff
ns Subject: RE: Slightly OT - Software Management Install on Exchange Servers You're not working for a software development company, are you? Aside from IT managed resources, we have a lot of other users running a lot of applications that are not completely under our control. When you run as

RE: Slightly OT - Software Management Install on Exchange Servers

2003-08-14 Thread Roger Seielstad
We're using the Altiris solution and rolling it out to all boxes, server or client. Haven't had an issue so far, and we're probably 95%+ installed with it.. -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. >

RE: Slightly OT - Software Management Install on Exchange Servers

2003-08-14 Thread Martin Blackstone
I'm not sure why you would need this on servers unless you have a problem with people just installing stuff on there. I can tell you that my servers are the one thing I know exactly what is installed on them. -Original Message- From: Erik L. Vesneski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesd

RE: Slightly OT - Software Management Install on Exchange Servers

2003-08-14 Thread Roger Seielstad
: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Slightly OT - Software Management Install on > Exchange Servers > > > Simple really, NO. > Why would you need it? All that a software inventory, > management, etc. tool > is going to do is add overhead to a central resource. Have