Microsoft KB Archive/886161

= Default collections are recreated in Systems Management Server 2003 Service Pack 1 =

PSS ID Number: 886161

Article Last Modified on 12/2/2004

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 SP1

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SYMPTOMS
If you apply Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) after you remove the default collections from your Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 site, the default collections are recreated.



CAUSE
This problem occurs because the SMS 2003 SP1 Setup program recreates the default collections.



WORKAROUND
To work around this issue if you do not want the default collections in your site, delete the default collections immediately after you apply SMS 2003 SP1 to your site. To do this, 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 (  -  ), expand Site Hierarchy, expand  - , and then expand Collections.
 * 3) Right-click All Systems, click Delete, and then follow the instructions in the Delete Collection Wizard to delete the collection.
 * 4) Repeat step 3 for each default collection that is listed in the &quot;More Information&quot; section.



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
When you apply SMS 2003 SP1 to a parent site where you have removed the default collections, the SMS 2003 SP1 Setup program recreates the default collections in the parent site. The default collections that are recreated in the parent site replicate down to child sites.

If the child sites have targeted advertisements to default collections, the membership of the default collections may be different from what it was before you applied SMS 2003 SP1 to the parent site. Advertisements that where targeted to the default collections on the child site may run on SMS 2003 clients that you did not expect, and SMS 2003 clients that should run the advertisement may not run the advertisement.

The following list contains the SMS 2003 default collections:
 * All Systems
 * All User Groups
 * All Users
 * All Windows 2000 Professional Systems
 * All Windows 2000 Server Systems
 * All Windows 98 Systems
 * All Windows NT Systems
 * All Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Systems
 * All Windows Server 2003 Systems
 * All Windows Server Systems
 * All Windows Workstation or Professional Systems
 * All Windows XP Systems

For additional information about a related topic, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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

Keywords: kbtshoot kbSMSUpdates kbMgmtServices kbprb KB886161

Technology: kbSMS2003 kbSMS2003Search kbSMS2003SP1 kbSMSSearch

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