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Saturday, March 22, 2008 6:18 PM

Inside The SMS Site Backup Service

When you configure the Site Maintenance task "Backup SMS Site Server" the SMS Site Backup service SMS_SITE_BACKUP (SMS_XXX\Bin\I386\Smsbkup.exe) is responsible for performing the backup task...
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Sunday, March 02, 2008 8:19 AM

The SMS 2003 Client Heartbeat Discovery Process

In SMS 2003 as in SMS 2.0 and Configuration Manager (ConFigMgr) 2007 the heartbeat discovery process is designed to let the site server(s) know that the client is in a healthy state and functioning as...
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 7:09 AM

SMS 2003 Client Installation Methods

Provided here is a brief overview of the various SMS 2003 client installation methods. Advanced Client Installation The manual installation of the SMS 2003 Advanced client is initiated by running CcmSetup...
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Sunday, February 03, 2008 8:22 AM

Systems Management Server 2003 General Availability Dates

Here you will find a list of the current SMS 2003 versions along with their general release dates. SMS 2003 January 20, 2004 SMS 2003 SP 1 September 10, 2004 SMS 2003 SP 2 February 10, 2006 SMS 2003 SP...
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Sunday, January 27, 2008 12:58 PM

SMS 2003 Translated Product Documentation

Here you will find a list of SMS 2003 Documentation translated into German, Japanese and French. German SMS 2003 Scenarios and Procedures: Maintenance, Backup, and Recovery http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...
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Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:37 AM

SMS LAN Sender Message ID 3530

Here you will find information to use if you receive the error as noted here: Source: SMS Server Component: SMS_LAN_SENDER Type: Milestone Severity: Error Message ID: 3530 Description: The sender cannot...
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Sunday, December 30, 2007 1:55 PM

Easy SMS Web Report Exports

Here you will find a trick to use that will allow you to export a specified SMS web report to a file name and location of your choosing from the Web Reporting page on your local workstation. Say you are...
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Sunday, December 16, 2007 8:31 AM

SMS 2003 Client Hardware Inventory Resynchronization

In SMS 2003 a Hardware inventory resynchronization request or ReSync is processed or initiated when the SMS Inventory Data Loader (DataLdr) has discovered that the inventory NoIdMif file is not in Sync...
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Sunday, December 09, 2007 10:19 AM

Advanced Client Resources On Secondary Site Systems

In SMS 2003 a Management Point (MP) that resides on a secondary site server is known as a Proxy Management Point (PMP) and as with all secondary sites severs a SQL database in not required. By default...
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Sunday, December 02, 2007 4:05 PM

How To Enable Verbose Or Debug Logging For SMS 2003 Clients

In SMS 2003 by default Verbose and Debug logging are not enabled due to the shear volume of information that can be collected. You can however enable them from the registry to attempt to resolve troubleshooting...
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Sunday, November 25, 2007 6:57 AM

SMS 2003 Advanced Client Push Requirements

In SMS 2003 the C lient Push Installation process requires the following for the client resources and the site server in order to function as expected. Client Resources 1. File sharing must be set and...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007 1:01 PM

Confirming A Clients Access To Its Management Point

Microsoft has provided a testing query for you to use to see if your SMS 2003 client or even your ConFigMgr 2007 client(s) can access their Management Point (MP) server using Internet explorer. To test...
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Sunday, October 28, 2007 8:37 AM

SMS 2003 Error 2186

If you attempt to manually start the SMS_Executive service on an SMS 2003 site server that is not running the following error message may appear: Error 2186 "Service is not responding to the internal...
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Sunday, October 21, 2007 2:31 PM

Manually Generating SMS Advanced Client Software Inventory

Here you will find information on how to manually generate SMS software inventory for an Advanced Client locally. Note: Must be performed on the actual workstation. 1. From an SMS resource machine go to...
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Sunday, October 14, 2007 2:45 PM

Using The Systems Management Server 2003 Account Review Tool

The Systems Management Server 2003 Account Review Tool (ART) is a Microsoft provided SMS 2003 site assessment tool. It is designed to assist you in properly configuring your SMS infrastructure’s...
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Sunday, October 07, 2007 8:22 AM

Manually Generating SMS Advanced Client Software Inventory Collection

Here you will find information on how to manually generate SMS software inventory for an Advanced Client locally. Note: Must be performed on the actual workstation. 1. From an SMS resource machine go to...
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Sunday, September 30, 2007 7:24 AM

SMS 2003 Service Pack 3 Asset Intelligence

When you install SMS 2003 Service Pack (SP) 3 not only will your SMS server(s) get the latest rollup of released SMS HotFixes but you will also gain full Microsoft Windows Vista compatibility. In addition...
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Sunday, September 23, 2007 7:58 AM

Enabling BITS For Software Distribution

Here you will find information on how to add Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) for software distribution to allow your SMS 2003 Distribution Points to take full advantage of the SMS 2003 distribution...
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Sunday, September 16, 2007 4:09 PM

SMS 2003 Packages Not Showing Up In All The Distribution Point Shares

Ever so often you create a package for an advertisement to your client resources only to find that the package has not been copied to all of the required Distribution Point (DP) server shares. You have...
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Sunday, September 09, 2007 6:50 AM

Advantages Of Performing An SMS 2003 Site Reset

Here you will find a listing of just some of the advantages or good points to performing an SMS site reset. Everyone seems to shutter when the think of HAVING to perform an SMS 2003 site reset. However...
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Sunday, August 26, 2007 11:58 AM

SMS 2003 Secondary Sites And The Advanced Client

In SMS 2003 when you have client resources assigned to a secondary site they cannot be assigned to the secondary site by default. They will however be assigned to the parent site for that secondary site...
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Sunday, August 19, 2007 6:20 AM

SMS Web Reports Active Server Pages Script Timed Out Error 0113

Here you will find a little background information on why the Active Server Pages script timed out error 0113 may occur when running SMS Web Reports as well as how to prevent them from occurring in the...
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Sunday, August 12, 2007 8:10 AM

SMS Exclusions By MAC Address

In SMS 2003 as well as SMS 2.0 you can exclude resources from being discovered by adding the machine names to the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Sms\Components\Sms_Discovery_Data_Manager\ExcludeServers registry...
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Sunday, August 05, 2007 8:02 AM

SMS 2003 R2 Features

Here you will find a list of the SMS 2003 R2 features available for install from the SMS 2003 R2 installation media. SMS 2003 R2 provides the following enhancements for SMS 2003 which can be selected for...
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Sunday, July 29, 2007 2:05 PM

SMS 2003 Recommended Reading

Here you will find a list of SMS 2003 reading materials listed in order of publication that I refer readers to when asked for my help on learning SMS. If you need or want to learn SMS or are just hoping...
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Sunday, July 22, 2007 11:09 AM

Microsoft Systems Management Server Lifecycle Support Calendar

Here you will find information about the lifecycle support for Microsoft Systems Management Server. Version Date Available Mainstream Support Retired Extended Support Retired SMS 1.2 October 23, 1996 December...
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Sunday, July 15, 2007 8:13 AM

Where The Buffalo Er The SMS Advanced Clients Roam

Roaming in SMS 2003 is as you know a new advanced client concept and sometimes it is hard to grasp at times what is actually going on. I have been asked questions about it from my readers and I thought...
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Sunday, July 08, 2007 7:11 AM

SMS 2003 Management Point Alternate Roles

In SMS 2003 a Management Point (MP) is quite similar to the SMS 2.0 Client Access Point (CAP) role however a MP is used only by SMS 2003 advanced clients as the primary communications means between the...
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Sunday, July 01, 2007 11:13 AM

SMS 2003 Primary Site Removable Systems Roles

When SMS 2003 is first installed and configured some site system roles are set by default to the Primary site server such as the role of Distribution Point (DP) when the SMS software Distribution is installed...
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Sunday, June 24, 2007 8:21 AM

Disabling SMS 2003 Site Server Logging

There may be times when you need to switch off or disable your SMS site server logging permanently or temporarily and to do so it is a relatively easy task to perform. For example if you have a site server...
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