June 2007

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Best Practices to Reducing Incident Totals in your Service Desk or Support Center

Many companies experience spikes in unresolved incident totals due to a host of issues.

While some companies experience a high growth rate and do not have the infrastructure to support the growing need; others do not have the processes in place to efficiently handle the incident volume. Still others do not manage their resources effectively or hold them to certain performance levels. Whatever the reason, there invariably comes a time when the incident “house” needs to be cleaned.

Full Article

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Discover New LANDesk® Process Manager 4.0 LANDesk Process Manager

New LANDesk® Process Manager 4.0 is now available and empowers you to make your business and IT processes more consistent and predictable without relinquishing control over the steps taken or the outcome achieved. Add LANDesk Process Manager to your existing LANDesk® systems and security management solutions and create consistent, predictable IT workflows that automate redundant maintenance tasks and save time, hassle and money.

The new 4.0 version includes active directory (AD) actions to allow you to automate creating and deleting AD accounts, shares, groups and application access as well as resetting passwords, saving time and reinforcing network security, and more.

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Flawless World-Class Execution Requires Flawless World-Class Service Delivery & Support

Do any of the following Information Technology (IT) business challenges strike home?

  • Executives and business partners question the value of IT expenditures, failing to appreciate the many IT services that operate effectively and efficiently
  • Too much time is wasted on IT incidents and problems, or the same ones get worked over and over
  • IT changes to systems or applications frequently degrade business services
  • Competing demand for scarce resources results in too many emergency production changes
  • Implementing a service support tool fails to achieve the desired improvements and cost savings
  • We think we are trying really hard to deliver good service, but our customers simply are not that satisfied

If so, then you are far from alone. These are common and well-recognized challenges faced by IT management throughout the world, regardless of organization size. To address these challenges in the past, enlightened management has embraced “best practice” processes and controls frameworks (e.g., ITIL®, CobiT, TQM, Six Sigma), internal benchmarking, and new tools. All too often though, these efforts fail to achieve the desired lift.

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LANDesk Success Story - Dartmouth College


Dartmouth College
Success Story

Founded in 1769, Dartmouth College is a member of the prestigious Ivy League and has around 5,500 students. Dartmouth’s high-speed network connects all its dormitory rooms, administrative offices and academic buildings both on and off campus. To ensure that all of its 9,000 computers stay secure and productive, the college uses proactive endpoint security management using LANDesk® Security Suite and comprehensive desktop management with LANDesk® Management Suite.

Learn why Dartmouth chose LANDesk® solutions and how the school is benefiting

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True Application Virtualization. 
No Confinement.
Deploying new applications can be a hassle. You’re never sure whether or not you’ll “break” your environment, or if you do break it, how quickly and effectively you’ll be able to roll it back to a pre-deployment state. You can end up impacting user productivity"not to mention happiness"and fielding numerous complaints. Worse, you may have to stop and do regression testing to fix problems created by new applications. And you may have to spend time and budget to create a testing environment. The solution: easy, client-less, conflict-free application deployment and rollback with new LANDesk® Application Virtualization.

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Tips & Tricks

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LANDesk® Custom Messages

This months Tech Tip will focus on LANDesk® Custom Messages. As of version 8.7, LANDesk® Administrators now have greater control of the end user experience during a LANDesk® software distribution job.

This tip assumes basic knowledge of LANDesk software distribution and html.

Complete Tip Here



Using Auto Ticket Generator (ATG) update actions to create tickets from specific emails


ATG has the ability to create not only generic tickets from all emails but also specific tickets from emails with a unique subject line.  For example, if you have users sending in emails for Requests for equipment and you want to track these requests in a detail screen, but all other tickets in a generic ticket, you can use the update ticket action to specify which type of ticket to create. 


Complete Tip Here

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Training Schedule

NetworkD is an Authorized Training Center for ITIL® Foundations courses, HDI®, LANDesk® and HEAT®. Our factory-certified instructors have the credentials and skills to provide you with a highly valuable training experience.

No-Charge LANDesk® Training Webcasts

Provisioning with LANDesk®
June 5, 2007
8am to 10am PDT

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Take Control of Software Licensing
June 5, 2007

12:30 to 2:30 PDT

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LANDesk® Management Suite DM87 Training

  • Basingstoke, UK
    August, 6 - 10, 2007

    Register

  • Basingstoke, UK
    November, 5 - 9, 2007

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Formations Service Desk Manager (SDM) Fast Track

Formations HDI Analyste Help Desk – Help Desk Analyst (HDA) Fast Track

More information, including a full list of training dates can be found here.

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Events

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LANDesk    London Eye
LANDesk
iControl
  • Webcast: Compliance and Password Resets
    Presented by Peter Gaul
    10:00 am BST 
    June 12th, 2007

    Register
Security Suite    Antivirus
iControl
  • Webcast: Compliance and Password Resets
    Presented by Mark McGinn and Chuck Bivens
    11:00am PDT 
    June 19, 2007

    Register

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