How to do Software upgrades and auditing with SMS? 1

[wolfej]

Help! I am a total newbie to SMS and have just been asked to get it to do things I know nothing about! I haven't even got a book on the subject and have no idea where to begin. The good news is that I seem to have successfully installed SMS 2.0 on our win2k server and we have a very specific (and very limited) need for its capability.

It is installed, but it appears to be pretty complicated. I want to do only two things with it at this point. I need to be able to push software upgrades of our own business created applications to client computers and I need also to be able to perform software auditing for the purpose of checking that the correct software is present on a client machine.

Any help would be vastly appreciated! I am sure that there are different ways of accomplishing this, but I would appreciate only the most basic and simple manner in which to accomplish this as a place to begin.

Thanks in advance!

 

[RodTrent]

Here's a few "must have" references to get you going. Watch for URL wrapping in the text.

1. SMS Administrator's Companion:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_3/002-5942993-9780016?v=glance&s=books

2. Start to Finish Guide to SMS Software Delivery:

http://www.netimpress.com/shop/product.asp?product_id=NI-SMS1

3. Microsoft SMS Installer book:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...7057987/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-5942993-9780016

Rod Trent
Microsoft.MVP.SMS
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