Systems Management Server - March 2006
Announcing the Release of SMS v4 Beta 1
Announcing Microsoft’s next generation in change and configuration management solution. Available today, SMS v4 Beta 1, is the lowest cost solution for managing changes to your Windows-based assets, including new advances in complete security management and system deployment.
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Announcing Beta of SMS 2003 R2
Announcing beta availability of SMS 2003 R2. SMS 2003 R2 promises to simplify customers’ IT infrastructure by improving client security and simplifying the distribution of updates for line of business and 3rd party software applications. Also announced is: The release of SMS 2003 SP2 with immediate availability; End of mainstream support for SMS 2.0 on March 31st.
Support Statement for SMS 2.0 Software Update Services Feature Pack and SMS 2003 Security Update Inventory Tool
As documented in KB895660, the MBSA 1.2.1 catalog (MSSecure.XML) that is used to provide security detection and deployment information to MBSA 1.x will be no longer be updated for use with MBSA 1.2.1 after March 31, 2006. The SMS 2.0 Software Update Services Feature Pack and the SMS 2003 Security Update Inventory Tool leverage the MBSA 1.x scan engine and therefore the MSSecure.XML file. To enable customers using SMS 2.0 Software Update Services Feature Pack and the SMS 2003 Security Update Inventory Tool, MSSecure.XML will continue to be updated for use with these SMS tools. The MSSecure.XML file will be updated until SMS 2.0 reaches the end of Extended Support in December 2010.
Newer Microsoft products cannot be supported with either the SMS 2.0 Software Update Services Feature Pack or the SMS 2003 Security Update Inventory Tool due to limitations in the MBSA 1.x scan engine. The Microsoft products not supported by these tools include, but are not limited to: Internet Explorer 7, SQL Server 2005, Windows Vista, Windows Server codename “Longhorn”, and any 64-bit products or platforms.
