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Session Summary During this Support WebCast, you will learn about the various options that are available for an SMS administrator to perform end-user support (such as Help Desk activities), using Systems Management Server 2003.

In Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 (SMS), when you try to change a display name by using the Software Inventory Client Agent Properties dialog box, you may receive the following error message: An error occurred while updating the...

Describes a problem in a Windows CE.NET or Pocket PC 2003 device where ... Assume the following scenario: You the use Run Advertised Programs tool in Control Panel to run an advertised program on the following devices that have the Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Device Client ...

Session Summary In this session, you will learn about the new Advanced Security model for Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 (SMS). You will learn how it compares and contrasts to the standard SMS security model, how to implement it in your SMS 2003 sites, and ...

For additional information about how to obtain the latest Systems Management Server 2003 service pack, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 885643 How to obtain the latest Systems Management Server 2003 service pack

When you upgrade from Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2.0 to SMS 2003, some custom instance security rights that are assigned to user accounts are deleted. ... This behavior occurs because SMS 2003 setup overwrites predefined queries.

When you configure Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 to use package IDs that packages have used before, the SMS 2003 clients may not download and cache the new package. ... may occur if the new package ID matches an older package ID that is still contained in the SMS 2003 client's cache.

In Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003, Resource Explorer does not display the value of the CurrentTimeZone attribute as a time zone, but as the number of minutes that the current time zone differs from Coordinated Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time).

Explains that SMS 2003 may not correctly report the status of a distributed package when the package has more than one setup step, and the computer must restart between steps. ... Therefore, Systems Management Server 2003 cannot track the setup status after the computer restarts.

The Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Distribution Manager recompresses a package from the source files directory even though you have selected to use a compressed copy of the source directory. ... Click Start , point to Programs , click Systems Management Server , and then ...