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I am getting the following error when trying to add to my distribution point on a secondary site: SMS Distribution Manager failed to find or create the defined share or volume on distribution point "["Display=\\WGSMS06\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=BPA"]\\WGSMS06\" for...

We have our Primary site server & 4 secondary sites on an NT4 domain. We have recently added a secondary site that is Active Directory. However, SMS will not install correctly & the clients are not installed any components. The SITE_COMPONENT_MANAGER will not start. I have created an active...

I'm trying to distribute a package using an ISS file using the command supplied by the manufacturer: setup /s v/"ADDSOURCE-MainProgram" Running this command manually works but using SMS I get an exit code of 1068. Any ideas? Thanks

Has anyone installed SP4 for SMS? Just wondered if anyone has encountered any problems with it? Thanks

I have a secondary SMS site at a remote site, due to lack of disk space on the Secondary Site Server, I put in a stand alone server & made it a distribution point. I removed the distribution point settings from the site server so that the stand alone server would be the only distribution point...

I'm looking for a report to run / create that will last all pc's & users that haven't run a particular appliation / exe file for a particular period of time. Does anyone know of any queries that can provide this? Has anyone used access with WBEM source? Thanks

I would like to run a report / query that will display when a user last executed a program so that software that has not been used for 6 weeks can be removed from the users machine. Does anyone know of an effective way of doing this as the full product detail report contains too much...

Sending a package out to 5 distribution points 4 of which are remote sites. All have sent the package successfully and have started distributing the software but one is still showing at status install pending - any ideas?

Have you tried Q306974? Debs

Check out Microsoft article Q279788 to see if this matches the problems you are having. If so you'll need to contact Microsoft for the hotfix. hope this helps

I'm running SMS 2.0 SP3 on Win2k. Recently the server has stopped distributing software. It's showing the adverts as being recieved but no failures, programs started. It has managed to install 1 package of 750 in 3 days! The server is dual processor, has 4gb of memory & bags of disk space -...

I'm running SMS 2.0 SP3 on Win2k. Recently the server has stopped distributing software. It's showing the adverts as being recieved but no failures, programs started. It has managed to install 1 package of 750 in 3 days! The server is dual processor, has 4gb or memory & bags of disk space -...

I am running SMS 2.0 SP3 in Win2K. The SMS server has stopped distributing software. The advertisement status is showing as recieved but there are no failures, programes started etc.. Nothing obvious in the log files. Any ideas? Thanks Debs

I have a BDC at a remote site that has now been brought offline, my primary site is still trying to communicate with this server & since it is an SMS assigned site system, I cannot delete it. How do I go about removing it from my list of site systems? Thanks Debbie

I am getting the following error message; SMS Site Component Manager detected that site system "\\WG19" is currently in use by SMS site DVH. Possible cause: You accidentally configured SMS to use this site system as part of this site and as part of site DVH. Solution: Remove this...