How to Remove Old SMS 2.0 clients 1

[Draknor39]

I recently took the position of Network Admin at my company. My predecessor had previously installed SMS 2.0 and then removed it for some unknown reason. When I took over the job I found most clients to still have the 2.0 clients installed even though the Site Server no longer exists. I went through our licenses and found that we had a few months left of our Software Assurance agreement and went ahead and ordered the new media for 2003. I want to install the new version, but I think I should remove the old client files before I do the installation.

Can anyone tell me the best way to do this? I thought about just installing the new version to see if it would fix my problem automatically, but I don't want to compound the problem.

Any help would be appreciated

 

[ceigl]

Hi there,
if a sms 2.0 client is not able to contact its CAP (Client Access Point - a SMS role) for 60 days it will uninstall itself automatically.
Of course you can "trick" the client to immediately start the uninstall - see this link:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;265358

Cheers,
Chris

 

[Draknor39]

This is exactly what I wanted to know. Thanks Chris!