Changing SMS 2003 Site Description
Recently was working on a ConfigMgr upgrade, in the process the SMS 2003 child site was description wasn’t ideal. Changing that after the fact isn’t supported by Microsoft, however this below way will work. Please understand that you do this at your own risk as Microsoft does not support the method. Had this saved in a word doc, i’m not sure where it originally came from, so if it’s from you, credit to you.
- Open the SMS Services Manager tool and if the target site server is a secondary connect to it
- Locate the SMS_SITE_CONTROL_MANAGER component and stop it
- Open in Notepad the %SMSDRIVE%\SMS\INBOXES\SITECTRL\sitectrl.ct0 file
- Locate the Site Definition section,
BEGIN_SITE_DEFINITION
<Numerical Value>
<Site Code>
<Site Description>
Edit the text within <Site Description>
Note: Do not add or change the syntax of the sections in this file or you will cause serious damage to your Site server. Do not remove the < or > symbols or edit anything outside of them
- Save the updated sitectrl.ct0 file
- From the SMS Services Manager tool restart the SMS_SITE_CONTROL_MANAGER component
- The hman.log will inform you that it is processing the Site Control File. A Status Message will be generated, and described in the message is the new Site Description.
You can also see this information in the Status Messages for the Site under Message ID 3306. - Go to the SMS Console and refresh the Site to see the new Site Description.