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Do I Need to Create a Recurring Advertisement for the Security Scan Tool?

I'm now ready to deploy the SMS SUS Feature Pack into my production environment.

Do I send an Advertisement containing the security scan tool to my Collection as 'Never expire' and schedule it for every 7 days? Is this required because this tool needs to be run ever 7 days or so to perform inventory of my machines, then under normal inventory this information along with SMS hardware and software information will be sent to my Site Server database?

If I'm understanding this process correctly, once the tool is installed an inventory scan will need to be kicked off every 7 days or so and this can be done by using this Advertisement, but will this tool also be installed every 7 days?

Contributed By: Wally Mead [MS]
We automatically create an advertisement to scan your clients every week. This is to allow for collection of updated scan data (patch status) through the next hardware inventory cycle that occurs after the scan. This is to keep the SMS site database up to date with the current patch status of the SMS site.