Altiris in Belgium: September 2008

In order to speed up the roll-out of NS Agents I use following method and vbs script

First of all create two collections : one with all major agents ( == the agents you want to install ) installed and one with not all major agents installed
Assign each of these collections to an Agent Configuration where the collection with not all major agents will request a config every 5 minutes and the other one with all major agents your default config request time
Create for every agent that you want to install a collection which gives you the resources without this agent installed
Create a VB script ( requires Altiris ADSK to work ) that will run every 5 minutes ( done with MS scheduling ) which will force a collection update of the previous defined collections

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' Setup management objects

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set collectionManagement = CreateObject("Altiris.ASDK.NS.CollectionManagement")

collectionManagement.TargetServer = "localhost"

collectionManagement.Authenticate()
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' UpdateCollections

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Rem Name: Pc's with all Major Agents installed ( SWD, Metering, Patch, CC, Aclient )