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I am distributing one MS patch MS05-024 to all of my Windows 2000 servers. The SMS SUS configuration for the patch itself is set to NOT reboot. /quiet /norestart Then my SMS program is set to "SMS Restarts" In most of my environment, the advertisement runs and the machines reboot...

Our SMS Administrators really like the SMS 2.0 Advertview utility. Is there something similar for SMS 2003? Please let me know.... Thank you! Joseph L. Poandl MCSE 2003 If your company is in need of experts to examine technical problems/solutions, please contact www.NJCOMPUTERNETWORKS.com...

Does anyone know if there is a utility like Makecol for SMS 2003? I want to be able to create collections based from computer names listed in a text file. The SMS 2.0 resource kit has a utility called MAkecol that works well in SMS 2.0...I was wondering if there is something similar in SMS...

I am using SMS 2003 in Advanced Security Mode. (Windows 2003 AD) I was able to install the SMS Advanced Client on my Site servers. However, I am having trouble installing the SMS Advanced Client on systems that are in an NT domain. It seems to be using the USdomain\admin account for access...

Question: I would like to create a script that will be ran locally on a server. The script will create a user account with password. Then set the password not to Expire. I am having problem with how to set the password not to expire. Any ideas? strComputer = "." Set colAccounts =...

Hi, How can I monitor deployments of Advertiments? In SMS 2.0, the AdvertView.exe utility worked great. Is this tool supported in SMS 2003? or is there a better way to monitor deployments of packages? -Thanks... Joseph L. Poandl MCSE 2003 If your company is in need of experts to examine...

Hi, I'm wondering what the recommended design for SMS 2.0 is for managing computers in a DMZ? The fear is that SMS collects IP, usernames, etc as part of its inventory procces on the clients...and that I really don't want this type of information flowing between my DMZ and Intranet...

Hi, I have an SMS 2003 environment (Advanced Security- Windows 2003 Native Domain). I don't use WINS... I am having trouble getting a few Windows 2000 SP4 servers installed as SMS 2003 Advanced Clients. All of my other clients are part of my Windows 2003 domain. However, these few clients...

Hi, Does anyone know if WINS is still needed for SMS 2.0 to work properly? If, suppose, you have an environment where all SMS Site servers and Component Servers are Windows 2000 and higher. Suppose you also had all SMS Client machines using Windows 2000 OS or higher. Is WINS resolution still...

I'm having trouble using SMS to target package distribution to my client machines. It is easy for me to create custom dynamic collections but using them to target my machines is becoming a problem. I think my problem is related to filtering a collection. For example, say I want to run a...

Hi, I'm new to WISE packaging. Does anyone know of a good website that can answer basic questions concerning creating WISE packages? I then use these WISE packages through SMS to push out to our servers.. Thanks.. Joseph L. Poandl MCSE 2000 If your company is in need of experts to examine...

Hi, I have an OWA server with the typical SSL protection using a public IP on the internet. When I try to attach to the OWA web site from the internet (https://email.domainname.com/exchange), the web site opens and I can logon. This is normal... The problem is when I am connected to the...

Hi all, I have a problem with a Sonicwall soho3. I have a Windows 2000 network with internal DNS/WINS/DHCP. I can connect through the VPN from the internet and get good network connectivity. However, I have problems browsing the internal network because of WINS/DNS resolution. Does anyone...

Hi, We have a Windows 2000 Mixed Mode domain. We are using Nortel Connectivity switch to allow internet users to VPN into our network. When users connect from the internet using the Nortel VPN client, it seems like they are using CACHED CREDENTIALS. I say this because they are not running...

Does anyone know if it is possible to view Windows 2000 Active Directory to Excel? I figure that this is probably possible using WBEM or something... I want to be able to search AD for say "All users with home folder on server \\SERVERNAME". Thank you... Joseph L. Poandl MCSE 2000...

Question: I have Outlook 2002. I recently upgraded from Outlook 97. It seems now that I have a problem when sending some of my e-mails. When I address the e-mail and type "bsmth" in the to line, it resolves as bsmith's FAX number? This is very frustrating.. Does anyone know why...

I am about to upgrade my SMS Site Servers (Three primary site servers in 3 sites running on Windows NT 4.0 with SMS 2.0 (SP3) and SQL (SP2)) to Windows 2000. However, I have been unable to find detailed Microsoft documents on how to perform the upgrade. I want to do an in-place upgrade seeing...

Is it possible to assign network printers to users using AD GPO's? Or can I assign printers to users through logon scripts? (Kixtart) Joseph L. Poandl MCSE 2000 If your company is in need of experts to examine technical problems/solutions, please check out www.esavio.com

How to Move a Windows Installation to Different Hardware (Q249694) MS Q249694 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q249694 Joseph L. Poandl MCSE 2000 If your company is in need of experts to examine technical problems/solutions, please check out www.esavio.com

Hey, Because of the 4GB system parition limit in Windows NT 4.0 (Yes, I know the true limit is 7.8GB..but whatever), after my inplace upgrade from NT 4.0 to 2K server is complete, I can not access all of my DISK0 drive space. For example, I've installed Windows NT 4.0 BDC of my current...