Large SMS Shops?

[jimmersrevenge]

Anyone out there deploy SMS in a shop w/over 20K desktops? What kind of success? Challenges?

 

[MaineMoose]

Am running SMS 2.0 sp4 in shop with 1000+ desktops, 53 buildings and 9 subnets. Works like a champ with one exception. READ ROD's books first before attempting this. I made many mistakes the first deployment and took months to correct. Once I REALLY understood the basics, set it up on a test bench network and played with it, i was able to deploy sms on the production network smooth as silk. It really comes in handy now that our staff has been reduced by 80 %

 

[BenVanDortrecht]

Until 4 months ago I didn't even know what SMS was. After 1 month of schooling I now have deployed to over 5800 clients. Our infrastructure is over 100 buildings with about 25 different subnets.

Just gotta love it!

 

[RodTrent]

I know of a couple companies that are over 20k SMS desktops. Boeing is one. Rod Trent
Microsoft.MVP.SMS
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[maegirl75]

The first mistake that almost everyone makes is not understanding the differences in terminology from 1.2 and 2.0. Depending on your domain structure(s), trust and what have you is depending on how best to design your SMS infrustructure. A bad intial deployment has turned many companies away from SMS (I specialize in cleaning up others messes). If you truley have concerns, please involve Microsoft, their support is wonder. And as a side, go with SQL 2000 and Windows 2000 Advanced server with SP 4.