SMS 1.2

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Excluding domain controllers running SMS 1.2 from SMS 2.0 Remote Client Installation

I'm upgrading from SMS 1.2 to SMS 2.0 with NT Remote Client Installation enabled under SMS 2.0. Is there a way of excluding some domain controllers from installing the SMS 2.0 client as some of my domain controllers are SMS 1.2 primary site servers?

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
Yes see Excluding computers from Remote Client Installation.
 

SMS Client Upgrade from 1.2 to 2.0

Our MS Consultant just told me that since SP2 it was not necessary to remove the 1.2 client prior to enabling the 2.0 client. Does everybody agree with this statement?

That was true with SMS 2.0 SP1. We use the Remote Client Installation and if you watch the active processes in Task Manager, you will see that one of the things that Clicore.exe calls is something called 'migrat1x.exe'. This is what cleans out the old SMS 1.2 client, and it worked for us in SMS 2.0 SP1.

Remote Control can cause serious problems as the two drivers it uses ('RCHELP.SYS' and 'KBSTUFF.SYS') don't always get upgraded (SMS 2.0 can't upgrade them if they're loaded into memory. After a reboot the installation should continue). Also, sometimes clients get a message about not being able to set security on the Registry which is associated with a missing Registry key for 'LEGACY_KBSTUFF' that causes the Gold key to fail. The best scenario we found was to do the upgrade, reboot, wait for Remote Control to install, then send out the RCZAP advert to all machines.
 

Upgrade from SMS 1.2 to SMS 2.0 SP2 client

Someone had posted here that the upgrade from SMS 1.2 to SMS 2.0 SP2 (Client only) was better than previous versions of SMS 2.0. Then it was stated that Remote Control never updates on the client, even after multiple reboots of the client. Has anyone else found this to be true or verify this with a Q article?

It eventually works, but is painful in transition. Look at the RCZAP utility on Rod Trent's page, which helps soften the blow somewhat. Also, Windows 95 has several issues that are currently being tossed around right now described in articles 266232 'Windows 95 Clients Hang When Remote Control Agent Is Installed' and 269411 'Windows 95 Clients May Hang After Upgrade to Service Pack 2' . The latter was the one that really nailed us, but the hotfix took care of it.
 

Where Can I Download SMS 1.2 SP4?

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
You can download it from:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/sms12/SP/4/NT45/EN-US/SMS12SP4.EXE

Where Can I Get a List of SMS 1.2 Error Codes?

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
 122177 'Systems Management Server Event Log Codes 0 Through 99' lists the SMS 1.2 Error Codes.
 

Where Can I Get the Latest AUDIT.RUL for SMS 1.2?

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
Looking for a later version of AUDIT.RUL than 1998?..  [Go to article]
 

Windows 2000 and SMS 1.2

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