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After installing
my SMS 2.0 SP4 agents on a newly built XP Pro box I don't see my
advertisements for hours and get a "there are no advertised programs to run
or schedule" message when using Control Panel/Advertised Programs. Any
ideas?
I use the default "All Systems" collection and it's a static list of all SMS
agent PC names.
I've only tried varying the Advertised Programs agent (via the server)
refresh interval from 15 minutes to 8 hours and still have to wait hours to
get advertisements on new client installs.
I want some way on the newly installed client to manually "force" an
immediate presentation of all advertised programs on the client so I can
start installing software.
Contributed By: John Griffin
[updated 06/05/04]
I read this post after having a similar issue with @ 30 clients in a 3,500
client hierarchy. The offending clients were spread throughout the Enterprise.
What I believe should happen when a client is added to a Collection, is the .lkp
file should be updated to reflect the Collection member, but for some reason it
was not happening fast enough.
To "force" an update we opened the Advertisement properties typed some garbage
into the Comment field and then deleted it. This activated the "Apply" button.
Once we clicked Apply and OK, the lkp file was changed within minutes and the
clients received their Advertisements.
Contributed By:
Wally Mead [MS]
The way to force a client to check for new advertisements is in the Control
Panel, start Advertised Programs Monitor. Then on the View menu, click
Refresh. This forces the client to check for new advertisements.
If that doesn't work, then it may very well be that Offer Manager hasn't
attempted to create the appropriate files clients need for detecting
advertisements. You can check the offermgr.log file on the site server. When
an advertisement is created, it will list each client to receive the
advertisement in the log.
Offer Manager will not create the necessary files until the package has
completed distribution to the distribution points. So, for very large
programs, such as Office, that could take some time, depending on your
package source configuration.
Contributed By: Rod Trent [MVP SMS]
Here's an "APM Kicker" utility:
http://www.myitforum.com/articles/1/view.asp?id=2310
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