Cross Forest Client Control
Cross Forest Client Control
This test was done to prove that an SMS site could control SMS Advanced Clients in a different Forest provided that a one way trust was in place.
SMS 2003 was tested in a VMware lab environment. I created two separate forests on two separate VM server. Each environment had the following:
- Domain one SMSLAB.OA (simulation of Production forest )
- Windows 2003 SP1
- Domain controller running in 2003 SP1 mode
- DNS
- DHCP
- WINS
- Windows 2003 SP1
- SMS 2003 SP2 R2
- SQL 2000 SP4
- Windows XP
- Domain two SMSLAB2.OA2 (Simulation of Application Forest)
- Windows 2003 SP1
- Domain controller running in 2003 SP1 mode
- DNS
- Windows 2003 SP1
- SMS 2003 SP2 R2
- SQL 2000 SP4
- IIS with bits and webdev
- Windows XP
A trust was created between the domains to simulate the trust between the Production forest and the Application Forest. This was a one way trust.
The SMS 2003 SP2 server was placed in SMSLAB.OA.
I added the SMS server and a service account to the SMSLAB2.OA2 in the form or a Domain Local group. Then this group was added to each system that was tested in the domain. I only tested 2 of the 3 systems below. My results are in the test chart on the next page.
The following Functions where tested:
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Test |
Results |
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System Discovery from SMSLAB2.OA2 |
Successful
As you can see in this picture 2 different Domains (forests) are showing in the “all systems” collection
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Group Discovery from SMSLAB2.OA2 |
Successful
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Install client Locally
OASMSLAB2SMS2 |
Successful
I have logs for this system if you would like to review them. The only problem I saw was an issue with WINS not resolving the SMS server. But it was picked up through DNS. It also had no problem finding the MP. |
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Install Client Remotely though SMS console
OASMSLAB2XP |
Successful |
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Package/ advertisement Deployment |
8 Successful Deployments including ITMU. The only issue I had here was the Client package Cache size. Once this was increased to 1500 meg all of the advertisements completed successfully.
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Remote Control |
Successful |
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