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Altiris worked just fine for us in the pre-Vista days. Once Vista was released, Altiris was about 6 months late getting out their "supported" version and when 7 came along they really never came out with a good solution (in my opinion). Currently, I script my whole image deployment process and in reality I could continue doing that even with the newest version but then why am I paying Altiris for their "development"? Also, it looks like they are not going to support WIM images in their newest deployment software so I would have to continue using my own scripts. Oh well. It's no skin off my teeth when we switch. Besides, Forefront will be integrated with SCCM 2012 along with WSUS. Can't go wrong! Sorry - got way off-topic. It's just a touchy subject with me....

I'm not looking forward to the migration either. We will be migrating from Altiris to SCCM. Should be interesting. I do like the way 2012 is setup and plus we will be saving quite a bit of money which is probably the biggest motivational factor for the migration.

I had found the link mentioned by Ric a couple weeks back but there are a lot of holes in this documentation right now. I asked our Microsoft rep about this and he said that they will be adding more and more documentation in the fall as they get ready for the release around the November/December time-frame. So far I really like what I see in the new version. I just wish there would be something out there with more complete documentation. Guess I have to wait....

Your topic title caught my attention. We recently purchased some Dell mini notebooks with basically no OS on them (FreeDos) because we thought that our Windows OS licensing was covered by our School Agreement license with Microsoft. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Got that fixed now but what a hassle. Gotta have that pretty little Windows sticker on the box.

I've got ours downloaded and I'm working on my new image. However, I ran into a glitch with our current KMS server but found the solution. If anyone else has problems with W7 and your existing KMS server (1.1), check out this link: Unable to install KMS key for Windows 7 Enterprise

Hello and thanks for all the replies. I was out of town and unable to check what suggestions had been made. In any case, the problem has been resolved. The problem was with one of our 5 domain controllers. When students would login and authenticate against this particular domain controller, it wouldn't run the kixscript for whatever reason. Everything appears fine and there were no errors on the DC but when we shut it off and then just let the other 4 take over, we didn't have any errors. It seems pretty obvious now (after the fact....). Again, thanks for all of the suggestions.

Hi everyone, I have been working on a problem with Microsoft since about October of 2007 and I've pretty much given up that I will get it solved so I'm turning to you all for suggestions. Here's the problem. Our students (10,000+) logon and some students find out that they are missing their mapped drives and/or printers and/or homepage setting. This happens to about 5 - 10 students per site (21 sites) per day. If you do the math, this isn't happening to that many students percentage-wise but it is very annoying and frustrating for students and staff. As a part of the logon process, we setup a Group Policy that calls out a bat file that runs the kix script that assigns mappings, printer and homepages based on group memberships. There aren't any problems with the kix script or it wouldn't work for anyone. All of our students use mandatory profiles. We have 4 domain controllers running W2K3SP2. The kix executable, kix config file and bat files resides in the netlogon share that is replicated amonst all 4 domain controllers. The mandatory profile also resides in the netlogon share. The last bit of information is that the workstations are XPSP2 and the workstation are all Dell Optiplex 260-755 models. Again, I've been working with Microsoft on this issue since last October. If anyone has any ideas, I would be very grateful. Thanks in advance for any ideas.