Hi, we're stuck in a situaiton where we can't upgrade to SMP 7.5 (we use Altiris Recovery Solution), but we also need to get Windows 8.1 devices on our network asap. We've setup a separate deployment server for that, but now I need to confirm what replacement management tools we might need to support Windows 8.1.
SMA installs ok, version 7.1.15440.8440, and then these agents all installed: Altiris Base Task Handlers, Altiris Client Task Agent, Altiris Software Update Agent, Arellia agents, Deployment Solution Agent, Inventory Rule Agent, Software Management Framework Agent, Software Management Solution Agent, Symantec pcAnywhere Agent.
These agents did not install automatically, but installed fine manually: Altiris Application Metering Agent, Altiris Inventory Agent, Altiris Power Scheme Task Plug-in.
pcAnywhere has issues I know that - it does work, but is very very slow and unusable for support .
I can deploy management applications (policies) and run jobs\tasks ok.
Full inventory seems fine.
I'm not sure if software updates is working, the device shows in SMP as having 134 application updates not installed, but after a day there are no updates showing in SMA - so this is the only major issue I have.
If I can't get software updates to work, I guess WSUS is the replacment for us - any tips to troubleshoot this? Is there a policy file the SMA should download?
And we could use Microsoft Remote Assistance instead of pcAnywhere.
I don't really want to have something like SCCM running next to SMP just to manage the new Windows 8.1 devices, but replacing ARS right now is in the "too hard" basket for us, we just had to get something up and running that could deploy a Windows 8.1 image.
cheers
