Microsoft KB Archive/263063

= SMS: The Site Component Manager May Continually Attempt to Install Components on Another Site Server =

Article ID: 263063

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 Q263063



SYMPTOMS
If a Systems Management Server (SMS) administrator from an SMS site (for example, AAA) attempts to create a client access point (CAP) or secondary site on a computer that is already a site that has the SMS Executive service installed, but this computer belongs to a different SMS site (for example, BBB), the Site Component Manager from site AAA is unsuccessful. The Site Component Manager, however, does not remove the entry from the control file of site AAA and continues to attempt to install the CAP on site BBB.

Errors may be logged in the Sitecomp.log file on every processing cycle. The Sitecomp.log file may have a &quot;The computer  is already a site system in site BBB&quot; entry and the log file creates an error status for that component.



CAUSE
This problem can occur because a CAP has a thread of the SMS Executive service called the SMS Inbox Manager Assistant. The SMS Executive service may only be controlled by a single SMS site and only a single instance of the SMS Executive service may be present on a computer.

The Site Component Manager component of the SMS site can install the SMS Executive service on a computer that has been selected to be a CAP, unless an existing instance of the SMS Executive service already exists from another site.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, do not enumerate any servers (that already exist as a site in another SMS site) as a CAP or secondary site in a SMS version 2.0 site. To recover from an unsuccessful attempt to install a CAP or secondary site on a server which is a site in another SMS site, remove the computer from the server which has been incorrectly selected from the list of sites (for example, site BBB).



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: prodsms

Keywords: kbbug kbcap kbconfig kbinfo kbnofix kbserver kbsmsadmin KB263063

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