RE: Advertisement

[umangmehta]

I am new to SMS 2003. I have couple of question.

I have collection name Adobe with 5 computers. I push ADOBE ACROBAT software to those computers. I Schedule with Interval none (Occurs on 10:00 am Monday Aug 27 2007).

Next day 9:00 am Aug 28 2007, I added another 5 Computers to Adobe collection (TOTAL 10 computers).

Question:
1. after adding 5 computer to collection, Do SMS install the software automatically or I have to click on re-run advertisement

2. What happens when I click on Re-run Advertisement?

3. if 5 computers already has adobe acrobat installed from Aug 27 2007 Push, Does Adobe acrobat run again on those computers or What SMS do (if installed already, do not run again)


Thank you

 

[ncotton]

oyu can rerun the advertisement, the software will NOT be installed again if it is already installed. Just hit Re-Run advertisement.

Neil J Cotton
Technical Consultant
Anix Group Ltd

 

[tbrennans]

Well yeah hit re-run the advert if you do want it to run on the 1st pc's again, if not just add to the collection and they will run within a cople hours when they check policies.

BTW you could push a few 100 at one time without straining the sms server in most modern environments

 

[ncotton]

TIm, it's been a while since I touched SMS, but as far as I am aware, a computer wont rerun an advertisement that has completed sucessful, there are registry enteries created on the client as to advertisement histories, and when the client recieves a advertisement, it checks to see if that ad has already been run, if it has, it discards it.

Neil J Cotton
Technical Consultant
Anix Group Ltd