SMS Laptop Pros and Cons

[grantdickson]

Our organisation currently has SMS 2.0 installed, and configured for our head office workstations. There is talk that laptops may soon be included within its structure. What are the pros and cons of including laptops. I've read there are issues with the client deinstalling itself once the laptop has been off the LAN for a few days.

Any other advice would be greatly appreciated

Grant

 

[snyderj]

Ensure travel mode is turned on when the device is connected to the proper site. If it's not then the client may become assigned to different sites.

Have SMS SP4 installed and be sure to apply site registry change per

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281107

(ref

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281107).

This will ensure that roaming devices will remain in the inventory (even if travel mode is on). Without it the inventory data will get automatically and unconfigurably purged daily.

The historic data purge frequency for each component and status messages should be set such that data doesn't get deleted too quickly. If you expect devices to be offline for up to seven days, be sure that you keep old data at least eight or more days. But if it does get purged it will just get re-entered once the device comes online again.

The SMS client doesn't magically deinstall until 60 days of unsuccessful attemps at contacting its CAP.