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Check out the managed API (.net DLL) in the SMS 2003 SDK

Indeed, the number of SMS Clients helps size the database and log. I would recommend adding 25-30% to your estimated client size. If you anticipate a larger client count at some point, go with the your projected estimate. While auto grow is a nice feature, too much growing can fragment the db...

Theres also some third party software which claims to do some of this. Take a look at PSSoft... they have some license management stuff that plugs into SMS and does license key management in addition to other stuff. You could also record the key upon installation (via a custom script or...

For IIS application errors (500) you can check your IIS logs and you will see the specific error message.

I agree, GPO is a good way to go. If you really need to use SMS, you could have the advertisement run on login and have it run every time.

The basic way to do this is to add the reporting point role to your DMZ server. However, you will need to open port 1433 through your firewall to allow the DMZ server to query the SQL database on your primary site. You could get into SQL replication and other such solutions, but those are...

Changing the SMS Client Site Code can also be done via a simple VBScript. You can then run the script manually, or deploy with SMS or GPO. Here's a sample I use and have posted on my blog (DotVBS.blogspot.com), nothing fancy. You can also use command line variables in the script to pass the site...

When this happens, its also a good idea to check the collection evaluator logs to see if SMS is having issues with a collection.