"Start with profiling desktop hardware and software usage" says Paul Pieske, VP Marketing, Scalable Software.
Much has been written on the subject of planning by many VDI commentators, and all agree that accurately understanding the type and intensity of desktop application use, and its impact on the underlying hardware, in the physical desktop environment prior to specifying the VDI environment is essential.
Read in detail how Survey's unique asset utilization
technology is helping companies obtain exactly the
information necessary needed to support VDI planning.
CEO Byline
Hello and Welcome to the new Scalable SoftwareWelcome to the latest Scalable newsletter and thanks for taking the time to read it. It's been a busy time for the Scalable team. The most notable activity has been the integration of the WinINSTALL business. We're delighted to have added such a talented group of individuals, and we also managed to release a significant upgrade to the core product, which has been very well-received. As further testament to the value our customers get for their maintenance payments, a further major release of WinINSTALL, version 10.0, is on track to be released before Christmas. This release will add significant new functionality in the areas of PXE, workstation decommissioning and migration, plus we are extending the range of operating systems supported. Interesting as Scalables internal progress may be, the real issue uppermost in the minds of most of the customers I speak to is the impact the economic crisis will have on their employment prospects. Although it's not possible for IT to address the factors directly responsible for the recession we are now clearly in, we can certainly impact our own job security by proactively looking at IT expenditure. In times such as this, individuals doing the most to reduce expenditures are most likely to survive the inevitable staff reductions. Survey, our IT cost reduction solution, has been used for many years to drive costs out of IT, and now more than ever those individuals who have embraced Survey are looking like visionary heroes in IT departments under intense pressure to cut back. For WinINSTALL customers we are now offering compelling upgrade pricing to encourage the rapid adoption of Survey; hopefully this will help to weather storm we are in. Thanks for your business and we are thrilled to have you as customers.
Mark
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Making PC Lifecycle Management Work For You: A Four-Phase Approach
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WinINSTALL 9.5 has been officially released. This long anticipated service release is a giant leap forward in product performance, reliability and scalability. WinINSTALL users can patch up from version 8.70 and higher.
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Scalable Survey Tips
I have computers that never hit my network, how does Survey capture information from these machines?
Survey has a "stand alone" agent that gets installed on machines that do not hit the network - Survey will capture inventory only on these machines and create a file that is sent to the Survey database.
Scalable WinINSTALL DMS and DAS Tricks:
Install OS\Application Patches on Startup
After executing a Vulnerability Scan and selecting the "All Patches" view in Patch Management branch, you can right click on "OS\Application Patches" and select Manage Files. This will give you the option of adding the Patch Packages to a Patch list file.
By setting the Patch List File in the Startup List option in the Distribution tab of the Default Agent Settings, all Patches not installed will install when the computer boots.
Scalable WinINSTALL MSI Packaging Tips
Modifying the Application Add\Remove Program properties
You can adjust the way a application Add\Remove Properties behaves using WinINSTALL. In the summary tab in the console you can select
- Show in ARP
- Allow Change in ARP
- Allow Remove in ARP
In the News
WinINSTALL Voted WindowSecurity.com Readers' Choice Winner
Leading Windows Security resource site, WindowSecurity.com, announced that WinINSTALL was selected the winner in the Patch anagement category of the WindowSecurity.com Readers’ Choice Awards.
Recent Events
Scalable Software was a sponsor of this insightful and information packed conference. Our very own Mark Miller spoke to a standing room only crowd on IT Cost Reduction & Avoidance through Asset Intelligence. This conference always has a strong agenda and even stronger networking opportunities.
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Congratulations to Thomas Gajewicz, a Network Systems Engineer for Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund.
He works with the
WinINSTALL
Desktop
Management
Suite.
"The most used feature is software distribution. We frequently deploy updated versions of our pension software to our end users and run inventory to make sure all PCs have the correct files installed. Before WinINSTALL this was a manual process."
