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Bonus question 4 is open, but the table still shows "COMING WEEK OF AUG 26-30", rather than "OPEN NOW"

I can see situations where this would be helpful, but until a feature like this is implemented, you can do this using the built-in windows command REG.EXE. REG Operation [Parameter List] Operation [ QUERY | ADD | DELETE | COPY | SAVE | LOAD | UNLOAD | RESTORE | COMPARE | EXPORT | IMPORT | FLAGS ] Return Code: (Except for…

On the Aug 14 13 (Day 9) question, only three of the listed answers are discussed in the video. A fourth criteria is discussed at the end of the video but it is not listed among the answers. I can guess at the fourth answer, but its confusing that the answers don't match the video.

This feature would be very helpful. Most of us in the IT group frequently read our email on a mobile device, so opening a report that's been compressed can be very difficult. I also really like grandgroove's suggestion of offering the ability to include the report data in the body of the email - this would make it even…

Is anyone else having trouble playing the videos at Server & Application Monitor (SAM) Training - YouTube?

, you can determine this yourself by clicking on the links. You will only see a question if it has not yet been answered.

That's good point, Michael. I admit that I somewhat lost sight of that; but as you said, the goal is to encourage users to learn about the product. Although many folks are already familiar with Virtualization Manager, I assume that I am not the only one who is being introduced to it for the first time. For us, some of…

It looks like you recently added Enterprise Reader. Thanks!

I want that GoPro!

I don't know why people are voting this down. I like the idea, even if I would likely never auto-approve the patches, at least having them published would be helpful. Having the updates automatically published to WSUS would allow me to see new additions much more easily than when they are buried in the Patch Manager…

This would be very helpful. The current display is not very intuitive and with options such as start dates, offsets, end dates and occurrence counts, it can be difficult to tell when a task will run next or whether it will run at all.

Those all work, as well as the original links

I understand why a company would be hesitant to offer this support, and it could be like opening Pandora's box if not presented carefully. Providing support for custom packages would be a great benefit to customers, but the support should be focused on the custom package features of the Patch Manager product and avoid…

Danielle just posted above that she is working on the points and that they are coming today. Just be patient.

I like the auto-publish feature, but it needs to provide finer control over the updates that will be auto-published before it will be useful in my production environment. We also need updated documentation to indicate how to use it properly. For example, the Google catalog includes several types of update packages with…

The hints for Week 2, questions 1 and 4 are hosted on slideshare.net, which is blocked by our corporate firewall as it's a file sharing site. Is there any other way to access these resources? Edit: Never mind, I'll just check the online docs! Hint: The answers to both are in Chapter 13 of the user guide, starting on page…

On the Aug 19th question (Day 13) the linked video is a guided tour of Virtualization Manager 5.1, not 6.0. It doesn't discuss any new capabilities

I would love to have this feature. I would like to know that my scheduled tasks have kicked off as scheduled, since I've had problems with them getting disabled unintentionally.

Working now. Thanks!

I'm not quite sure what the user rating is supposed to describe. Am I rating the original post or the thread as a whole?

I'm very interested in seeing an update to the UI. The existing interface is cluttered and inconsistent, with many strange quirks which are sometimes potentially disastrous, such as a right click menu that sometimes acts upon the item selected but sometimes upon the previously selected item or even all items in the…

Found a better list of New Features. I should have noticed it earlier, as it's at the bottom of every message after you answer a question.

I had never noticed that option, nor the content share. Thanks, I'll check it out!

Thanks, Danielle.

Thanks, for sharing your solution. I finally got mine working as well, and though I did it a little differently I’m sure either solution would work. I created a new 3rd party update package and set it to run a command line install As the package executable, I used a helpful utility called sleep from…

How did packageboot.exe get in your execution list? At the beginning of this thread you said you were using sleep.exe, but I don't see that in you XML anymore. Packageboot.exe is the executable that processes the xml file -- you shouldn't be calling it from within the configuration. I'm not sure what that will do, but…

That's great information, thanks! But, why doesn't this seem to work with an MSI installation with packageboot enabled? How is that different from the "Run a program" task with the program type set to "Install MSI"? Does this only work with exe-type programs? Is this just a temporary environment variable set by packageboot…

Not at all! I appreciate your input, I just wanted to be sure that I'm posting in the right forum.

Thanks for the information, Lawrence. I have confirmed that this issue is resolved in the 1.85 RC

By the way, you can get a basic progress bar for your test run by putting the following parameter under [Startup]. This might help ensure that the installer isn't prompting for any missing information. <strong>CmdLine=/sPB /rs</strong>