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Running All Available Programs on an SMS 2003 Advanced Client

Recently a customer complained that you can't run more than one advertised program at a time on a client, but they could in SMS 2.0. Here is an example VBScript that runs all available advertised programs on a client. 'rslaten 10/10/2007 'Example of how Read More...

Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 10:22 PM by rslaten | 1 Comments

Filed under: SMS 2003

The SMS MP for SCOM 2007 does not work properly if the SMS server is not installed to C:\SMS

The SMS MP Guide actually tells you this: "To specify the location of the SMS installation folder the script uses a system environment variable on the SMS site server. The administrator must create the %SMS_INSTALL_DIR_PATH% environment variable as a Read More...

Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 6:43 PM by rslaten | 1 Comments

Filed under: SMS 2003, SCOM 2007

How the SMS 2003 Advanced Client Creates Delta Inventory

I have recently done some research on exactly how inventory is generated, including deltas, and have listed the information below. This information can be obtained by monitoring the inventory agent logs, verbose WMI logs, and applicable inventory WMI Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2007 8:10 PM by rslaten | 0 Comments

Filed under: SMS 2003

How to Delete an Assignment from an SMS 2003 Advertisement

I recently worked on an issue where a customer was trying to programmatically delete a mandatory assignment from an SMS 2003 advertisement. I saw that adding an assignment is a very easy and documented task, however deleting the same assignment is not. Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2007 7:20 PM by rslaten | 1 Comments

Filed under: SMS 2003

The Mystery of the Lost Hardware Inventory

In large environments, with tens of thousands of SMS 2003 clients, inventory may get "lost" for various reasons. An example of a lost inventory is below: An SMS 2003 Advanced Client reports a full inventory upon install The client continues to report Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2007 6:37 PM by rslaten | 3 Comments

Filed under: SMS 2003, SCCM 2007

Bit Fields and the SMS_Advertisement Class

I recently worked on an issue involving a customer attempting to create a mandatory Advert using a C# application. The advertisement worked but wasn't mandatory even though it looked to be in the SMS Admin console. There was also some confusion as to Read More...

Posted Tuesday, July 17, 2007 8:12 PM by rslaten | 1 Comments

Filed under: SMS 2003

Finding Overlapping Boundaries in SMS (SMSBoundaries v1.42)

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where an SMS Advanced client ends up getting policy or advertisements from the wrong site, or they are using the wrong MP/DP? This is a very common issue for our customers and determining root cause can be difficult. Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 4:13 PM by rslaten | 1 Comments

Filed under: SMS 2003

Attachment(s): SMSBoundaries.vbs_