Article ID: 305151
Article Last Modified on 10/25/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q305151
SYMPTOMS
Systems Management Server (SMS) collections that are based on Direct Membership rules may lose their members or membership rules during the creation process if the SMS permissions that are assigned are based on global groups. This problem occurs only if the SMS provider and Microsoft SQL Server are installed on a separate member server from the SMS site server.
This problem occurs when you are creating a new collection by using the Direct Membership Rule Wizard (after you browse an existing collection and select the resources that are required for the new collection). If you click Apply in the final wizard dialog box, the collection members are lost. If you click OK in the final wizard dialog box, the collection members and the membership rules are lost.
CAUSE
This problem occurs because the SMS provider tries to use the local SMSServer_sitecode account to validate permissions.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Systems Management Server version 2.0. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
288239 SMS: How to Obtain the Latest Systems Management Server 2.0 Service Pack
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
This problem was first corrected in Systems Management Server 2.0 Service Pack 4.
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