SMS Admin Pak and Feature Pack

[jbrunnqu]

We will be moving our site from a NT4.0 to W2K with SP4. The database is moving from NT4, SQL7 to W2K and SQL2000. It appears from documentation that the best way to do this is using the site transfer settings tool. Is there a prefererred order of doing these activites? Any pre-reqs? OS or patches?

The other question is what account is used to download the mssecure.cab file and what method is it using to get the file?

Thanks in advance for any info.

 

[RodTrent]

Here's some great articles on the SUS Feature Pack:

SMS Feature Pack Sync Tool Teardown A to Z:

http://www.myitforum.com/articles/1/view.asp?id=5281

SMS Feature Pack Scan Tool - Unleashed:

http://www.myitforum.com/articles/1/view.asp?id=5438

Rod Trent
Microsoft.MVP.SMS
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Main site:

http://www.myITforum.com

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[jbrunnqu]

Thanks Rod - I have read these already and they are very good. It does not speak to the site transfer settings wizard though. If I wanted to have the site remain in production thought this exercise, would the following procedures be adequate?



1) Install a new version of SMS on Windows 2000 server running SQL 2000
2) Create an address on the new site to the old site running on Windows NT4
3) Create an address on the old site to the new site
4) Attach the old site (running on Windows NT 4) to the new site
5) Create a common client connection account and configure it for both the new and old site
6) Add the old sites site boundaries to the new site
7) Wait 24 hours to let the new site's site boundaries and the backup client accountion account to get propergated to all clients
8) remove the site boundaries from the old site
9) Create packages on the new site from the old site (but do not deploy them)
10) Create new packages to be deployed on the new site
11) After the new site has stabalized - detach the old site from the new site
12) Turn off the old site by removing site boundaries.

Will the current clients understand and report to the new parent site?

Thanks