a few folks have posted comments regarding training on dcm that's available from alpha tech solutions . i wasn't sure how seriously to take it since i'd never heard of it before ... but after talking to one of the dcm dev folks, i decided to look into it a little bit. i emailed their sales person and asked for an eval so that i could go through the training set and review it. to my surprise, they were more than willing. :) training is broken down into two parts. the first part covers the following: introduction installing the dcm authoring tool creating and customizing manifests customizing scenarios (part 1) check service state check file version verify automatic updates verify smtp default domain verify minimum password length the second section covers the following: customizing scenarios (part 2) verify if a hotfix is installed verify if a service exists check file existence number range firewall status deployment and execution reporting by the time you've gone
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