SMS 2003 Vista Support and Support LifeCycle
SMS 2003 SP2 (Lowest level to upgrade to SCCM)
- No official Vista support – can do limited Vista support for Business, Enterprise and Ultimate
- Software distribution
- Basic ITMU patch deployment via version 3
- Must manually install Vista client (no automated client push)
- No event viewer compatibility
- No Hardware Inventory (HINV)
- Support Lifecycle
SMS 2003 SP3 (Possible upgrade to SCCM)
- Official Vista support for Business, Enterprise and Ultimate
- Deploy Windows Vista with the SMS 2003 Operating System Deployment Feature Pack (OSDFP) update
- Deploy Security updates via ITMUv3
- Deploy applications to Windows Vista client computers
- Perform software and hardware inventory for Windows Vista client computers
- x64 architecture support
- Support Lifecycle
- 1/12/2010 (End of SMS support – no further service packs planned)
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