Microsoft KB Archive/886119

= The advertisement ID is not displayed when you run a program from the Run Advertised Programs tool in Systems Management Server 2003 Service Pack 1 =

PSS ID Number: 886119

Article Last Modified on 9/30/2004

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 SP1

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SYMPTOMS
Assume the following scenario: A program that is advertised by Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is run from the Run Advertised Programs tool in Control Panel on an SMS 2003 client computer. In this scenario, you can find status messages for the advertised program in the SMS Administrator Console, but the status messages for the advertisement do not include the advertisement ID.



CAUSE
This issue occurs when the following conditions are true:
 * The user of the SMS 2003 client computer manually runs the program from the Run Advertised Programs tool in Control Panel.
 * The program that the client runs uses the Software Update Installation Agent (Patchinstall.exe).
 * The program that the client runs is made available by a mandatory advertisement.
 * The Allow users to run the program independently of assignments option is enabled for the advertisement.



WORKAROUND
To work around this issue, do not let users run the program independently of assignments. To disable the option that lets users run programs independently of assignments, follow these steps:
 * 1) Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Systems Management Server, and then click SMS Administrator Console.
 * 2) Expand Site Database (  -  ), and then click Advertisements.
 * 3) Right-click the advertisement that you want to change, and then click Properties.
 * 4) Under Schedule, click to clear the Allow users to run the program independently of assignments check box, and then click OK.

Note If a Software Update Installation Agent program is advertised by more than one advertisement, you must repeat these steps for each advertisement of the program.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section.



MORE INFORMATION
SMS 2003 status messages let you monitor the status of advertisements and of programs. Advertisement and package status messages include the ID of the advertisement that made the program available to the client.

Because a program can be advertised to an SMS client by more than one advertisement, SMS cannot always determine which advertisement was used to run the program. For additional information about how to advertise programs to clients, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

826844 Overview of advertisements in Systems Management Server 2003

826854 How to troubleshoot problems that occur when you use SMS 2.0 or SMS 2003 to advertise programs to SMS clients

For additional information about the Software Updates Installation Agent (Patchinstall.exe), visit the following Microsoft Web site:



Keywords: kbinfo kbprb kbtshoot kbwinservperf kbMgmtServices KB886119

Technology: kbSMS2003 kbSMS2003Search kbSMS2003SP1 kbSMSSearch

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