Microsoft KB Archive/262468

= SMS: &quot;Insufficient Rights&quot; Error Message Appears During the Distribute Software Wizard =

Article ID: 262468

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q262468



SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to run the Distribute Software Wizard, you may receive an error that states that there are insufficient rights to run the wizard. This will occur even if you have all of the INSTANCE level rights on the Collection class.



CAUSE
The Distribute Software Wizard in Systems Management Server (SMS) checks CLASS level permissions only. Without adding CLASS level permissions on the Collection class to your user account, there is no method to enable you to use the Software Distribution Wizard.



WORKAROUND
To work around this issue, you can create an advertisement manually. In order to advertise to a Collection, as the logged-on user, you must have the advertise INSTANCE right for a collection. Once the you obtain the INSTANCE level right, then it is possible to manually create an advertisement for objects of a collection.

To follow the steps to manually create an advertisement, refer to the SMS administrators' guide, on page 417, &quot;Use the SMS Administrators Console.&quot;



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server version 2.0.



MORE INFORMATION
This issue becomes apparent when an SMS administrator attempts to limit the scope of ability for other administrators. More specifically, when you (as an administrator) attempt to limit the collections that an administrator can advertise to, you experience this issue.

Another issue that may be encountered is on a user's ability to advertise to a collection that they created if the user only had INSTANCE level rights on specific collections. The result is that after creating the new collection, the user is unable to advertise to the collection that was just created because INSTANCE level permissions are not inherited from other collections. Thus, an administrator with CLASS level permissions to the new collection must grant the creator the INSTANCE level Advertise right.

Additional query words: prodsms

Keywords: kbadvertisement kbbug kbcollections kbconfig kbnofix kbpackage kbsecurity kbserver kbsms200presp3 kbsmsadmin kbsmsutil kbsoftwaredist KB262468

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