Altiris - Best Practice references for Symantec Management Platform 7.1

Best Practice references for Symantec Management Platform 7.1:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO35984

SCCM 2012 technet documentation

SCCM 2012 official documentation available on technet:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg682041.aspx

Altiris 7.1 Suites and Solutions documentation

It will be the place for all actual documentation for Altiris 7.1. 

Induction to Symantec Altiris Solutions

Altiris Inc. is a subsidiary of Symantec specializing in service-oriented management software which allows organizations to manage IT assets. They also provide software for web services, security, and systems management products. Established in 1998, Altiris is headquartered in Lindon, Utah, United States. Altiris has over 20,000 customers managing more than 3 million servers and 60 million desktops and laptops.

On January 29, 2007, Symantec announced plans to acquire Altiris and on April 6, 2007 the acquisition was completed.

SCOM 2007 R2 How to start

Several times I was asked "What to do first to learn how to work with SCOM". Basing my experience I can suggest the following list of actions to do first:

SCCM 2007 official documentation in PDF, DOC(X) etc.

Here's the place for links to official SCCM 2007 documentation in pdf, doc(x), chm, etc. formats.

SCCM 2007 List of log files

List of Log Files in Configuration Manager 2007 can be found here(useful for troubleshooting):



http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb892800.aspx

SCOM 2007 R2 Official Documentation

Here's the link to Microsoft SCOM 2007 R2 product official documentation(documentation is being updated but link is permanent):




http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/systemcenter/om/bb498235.aspx