Welcome to the SMS 2003 wiki!Systems Management Server 2003 delivers enterprise-class software distribution and asset management through comprehensive inventory analysis, operating system and software distribution, and software usage tracking, and reporting. By integrating these core disciplines into a single solution, customers are able to reduce the day-to-day operational costs of managing Windows, as well as enable their business to move more quickly.
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SMS 2003 News
Posted December 8, 2006.
SMS 2003 and Vista Support: From the SMS team: SMS 2003 SP2 with ITMUrev3 is the minimum configuration required to get "best effort" support for Vista. Changes were made in both SP2 and ITMUrev3 to begin to support Vista. True Vista support is not expected until SP3 of SMS 2003 ships. -
Greg Ramsey as posted to the
SMS email discussion list.
The official name for the next version of Systems Management Server, code-named "SMS v4," is System Center Configuration Manager 2007.
SMS 2003 Technical Information
For a start, check out the SMS 2003 Scanning Tools link - Drill down into ITMU Scanning -- you'll find a flow with some troubleshooting steps.
Documentation
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