Article ID: 886117
Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003
SYMPTOMS
After you create both optional and mandatory program advertisements for your Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 site, you may experience the following symptoms:
- Advanced Client computers cannot download and install programs that are made available by optional advertisements. However, Advanced Client computers can download and install programs that are made available by mandatory advertisements.
- You find entries that are similar to the following in the DataTransferService.log file on the SMS 2003 Advanced Client computer:
- You find entries that are similar to the following in the Execmgr.log file on the SMS 2003 Advanced Client computer:
- You find status messages that are similar to the following in the SMS Administrator console on a site server:
Note On computers that serve as management points, Advanced Client log files are located in the Sms_Ccm\Logs folder. On all other computers, Advanced Client log files are located in the %Windir%\System32\Ccm\Logs folder.
CAUSE
This problem occurs when all the following are true:
- You have blocked server message block (SMB) protocol access to the distribution point.
- The advertisement is optional.
- The user account that logs on to the Advanced Client computer does not have permission to access the distribution point.
- You do not specify an Advanced Client Network Access Account or the Advanced Client Network Access Account does not have permission to access the distribution point.
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, follow these steps to modify the optional advertisement so that it becomes a mandatory advertisement:
- Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Systems Management Server, and then click SMS Administrator Console.
- Expand Site Database (
SiteCode-SiteName), and then click Advertisements. - Right-click the advertisement that you want to modify, and then click Properties.
- On the Schedule tab, right-click the Mandatory Assignments box, and then click New.
- In the Assignment Schedule dialog box, click to select Assign to the following schedule, and then click Schedule.
- In the Time box, type a date and time that is two or more years in the future.
- Click to select None in the Recurrence pattern box, and then click OK three times.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
MORE INFORMATION
An SMS 2003 Advanced Client tries to download mandatory advertised programs from a distribution point under the security context of the local computer's system account. On a computer that has joined your domain, the system account is a member of the domain. Therefore, the download of the advertised program succeeds when the advertisement is mandatory.
When an advertised program is optional, the SMS 2003 Advanced Client first tries to connect to the distribution point under the security context of the user who is logged on. If this does not succeed, the SMS 2003 Advanced Client will then use the Advanced Client network access account.
A Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)-enabled distribution point can download programs to Advanced Client computers in small pieces by using the HTTP protocol. This can be of great assistance to client computers that are connected by slow links and to client computers that are not always on the network, such as portable computers.
If you block SMB access to the distribution point, the Advanced Client can access the distribution point using HTTP only if you have enabled BITS on the distribution point.
For additional information, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
826844 Overview of advertisements in Systems Management Server 2003
830619 You cannot use Background Intelligence Transfer Service to download an advertised package
842309 An update is available for Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) 2.0 for Windows XP
For additional information about how to manage SMS accounts, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
For additional information about software distribution, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
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