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ReRun Advertisement on a Schedule - 7/31/2008 5:38:33 AM

ibit

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Hi,
I am trying to achieve a scenario in SMS 2003 that I have already implemented in SCCM 2007, which is to rerun a particular Advertisement on a schedule. This advertisement is targeted to a collection with a substantial amount of resources.
What I have done so far is that I used the excellent “SMS Tools” addon for the SMS 2003 console and edited the “smssend.vbs” slightly with the hardcoded Advertisement ID (I don’t want a prompt) ... This works when I right click the Collection and use the ReRun Advertisement function from within the SMS console.

However when I create a package/program to allow me to schedule the Rerun of the advertisement, using this command line taken from the registry :
“C:\WINDOWS\system32\cscript.exe C:\WINDOWS\smssend.vbs RERUNADVERT ##SUB:collectionID## 2 ##SUB:__Server## ##SUB:__Namespace## //NoLogo”
I get the following error:
“Querying collection for membership...
While trying to connect to WMI on \\ an error occurred. Error: -2147217375. Desc
ription:”

I have tried several variations of the above command, specifying the actual Collection ID rather than the variable etc, but to no avail. I am afraid I don’t have enough understanding in this area.

I was wondering if someone else had already tried to do this and was more successful than me or if there is another way altogether to achieve the scheduled rerunning of Advertisements in SMS 2003

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
iBiT.

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RE: ReRun Advertisement on a Schedule - 7/31/2008 8:41:54 AM

iglatz

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Why don't you just create a normal schedule in your advertisement instead of using a command line? When creating an advertisement, you can define whether to let it run once or on a regular schedule. I.e., the patch management advertisement in ITMU gets set on an automatic schedule when being installed. I wouldn't bother with the vbs script.

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RE: ReRun Advertisement on a Schedule - 7/31/2008 8:48:14 AM

ChrisR

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Just open up the advert and create a mandatory assignment under the schedule tab to run every X days/months, whatever you want.

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RE: ReRun Advertisement on a Schedule - 8/1/2008 4:58:47 AM

ibit

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Thanks ... I wasn't sure if the Advertisement would rerun if the previous attempt was successful as you don't get that option in SMS as you do in SCCM when configuring the advertisement ..

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RE: ReRun Advertisement on a Schedule - 8/1/2008 6:38:28 AM

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Having a mandatory schedule means it'll run based on that schedule regardless of if it was successful or not the last time it ran. So if your mandatory asssignment only says run after 12:00 today it'll run once from that time. If you said run everyday at 12:00 it'd run everyday at 12:00 even if it completes successfully the previous day.

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RE: ReRun Advertisement on a Schedule - 8/1/2008 8:49:42 AM

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If you want to run the adv on a reoccuring schedule but don't want to run it on a computer that has completed it then you will need to create a parent/child collection.
Parent: What application/adv needs to run on the machine
Child: Limted to the parent. Sub query that shows only machines that haven't installed the software from the parent.

Run the adv on the child, as they install and HW/SW inventory runs that will be removed. there for only the nonsucessfull machines will run.

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