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Thanks, is there another tool that will do that for one-off situations or deploying scripts to random machines listed in a directory format?

Thanks. That does make sense. What I do like about Altiris is the simple drag and drop jobs to a client and directly execute commands on clients through the console. Those jobs can contain powershell, vbscript, windows commands, etc. In SCCM, it seems everything is a deployment to a collection. Is there a way to quickly deploy software or commands/scripts to a client? Example: I want to use a command to install a printer on a client, now we have a job that will do that in Altris and I just send it directly to the client, no fuss. Is that, or something similar possible in SCCM without collections being involved? Or a separate way of doing that?

Hello, Nice to find this forum. We are looking to possibly switch to SCCM from Altiris DS 6.9. We only mostly use the imaging and software deployment features of Altiris. So SCCM will cover us for most of this. But I have run into a few questions that some will certainly ask of me. In Altiris I can can have a job that has a "Run script" task and I can send just point it to a client and execute it. Same with "File copy" commands to put files on a client. What I have seen is everything is solely deployment based. So first off I can't see a way to run a task sequence on a single client that may need something without putting it in a collection and deploying the task sequence to it. Also I don't see a way to directly execute commands or send VB scripts to a client. In our environment that could quickly clutter the SCCM console with tons of task sequences to just do a simple command execution. Is there another way to do that? Thanks, Bill