Hi,

Just the other day LANDesk released Service Pack 5 for the Management Suite 8.7, this is unprecedented. This is the first time that I’ve seen the product go past a third Service Pack: but LANDesk is adding many improvements to the software. Service Pack 5 as I know it is mostly  back end updates to make all of our life’s easier.

Just like all of you I’ve been busy and traveling; this week is the first chance that I’ve had to look into the service pack. One of my awaited features is here the ability to deploy VB scripts with LANDesk without having to wrap them into a batch file or manipulate them with the package builder.

How often have you wanted to or tired to install a networked printer??? Most of the time it’s a pain but I’ve found that VB scripts install a printer to a PC very nicely. A little side note, I have several VB scripts to install a printer, if you’d like one let me know.

To use the new VB script options; open Tools, Distribution, Distribution Packages; Under My Distribution Packages, open a New Distribution Packages, the New Windows Script Host Package appears, and there you are, finally… You’ll see the usually menus, install / uninstall prerequisites and so on about 6 or so that we all are familiar with. Add the necessary information and away you go.

Another addition I noticed is Service Manager. I heard this was coming, for those of you who haven’t heard of Service Manager, it’s much like Server Manager but it's or PCs. From my understanding we can get CPU temperatures, disk information, memory usage and so on. I’ll need to research this a little more.

If you have any questions about Service Pack 5 or any LANDesk product, post it here and the team here will do our best to answer them.

Take Care,

Andy