SMS 2003 Hot Links

This page contains Microsoft/ SMS 2003-related links that are so Hot to handle we had to put them on their own page..!!

If you have any SMS 2003 links that you would like to see added to this page please feel free to email me.

How Do Microsoft Manage Patches Internally? [23/02/04]
LearnSMS.com [05/05/04]
List of technical resources for Systems Management Server 2003 [05/07/05]
Microsoft SMS 2003 FAQ [26/11/03]
myITforum [1/7/02]
SMS 2003 Administrator's Companion Now Available [04/02/04]
SMS 2003 Beta Overview [11/10/02]
SMS 2003 Capacity Planner [23/07/04]
SMS 2003 Client Health Monitoring Tool [04/10/04]
SMS 2003 Concepts, Planning, and Deployment Guide [29/04/04]
SMS 2003 Evaluation Software [23/11/03]
SMS 2003 Product Documentation [22/12/03]
SMS 2003 Reviewers Guide [11/10/02]
SMS 2003 Support Centre [06/01/04]
SMS 2003 Toolkit 1 Now Available [21/01/04]

How Do Microsoft Manage Patches Internally?

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
Ever wondered how Microsoft go about managing patches in-house? Well they use SMS 2003 as explained in this whitepaper:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/itsolutions/msit/security/smsdttwp.asp

LearnSMS.com

If you need to learn SMS (both 2.0 and 2003), you can't go wrong by checking out Chris Urban's excellent LearnSMS.com site that features inexpensive online videos to help you get up to speed:

http://www.learnsms.com/default.htm

List of technical resources for Systems Management Server 2003

This Microsoft Knowledge Base article contains links to some useful Microsoft resources for SMS 2003:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828368

Microsoft SMS 2003 FAQ

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
Microsoft have naturally created their own FAQ on SMS 2003 which covers a whole plethora of topics from availability to deployment to upgrading amongst others. You can access it at:

http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/evaluation/faq/default.asp

myITforum

http://www.myITforum.com

SMS 2003 Administrator's Companion Now Available

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
Steve Kaczmarek's excellent SMS 2003 Administrator's Companion is now available from the Bookstore.

SMS 2003 Beta Overview

http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/evaluation/future/sms2003beta.asp

SMS 2003 Capacity Planner

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
The Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Capacity Planner is a tool that helps consultants, SMS administrators, and IT professionals perform scenario analysis on their existing and proposed SMS 2003 hierarchy. The Capacity Planner Tool User Guide describes how to use the Capacity Planner tool. The Capacity Planner tool analyzes the input you provide and suggests SMS site topology configurations and corresponding hardware configurations for site servers and site systems.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=009e0c30-bded-4b95-a8f9-06037de85c57&displaylang=en

SMS 2003 Client Health Monitoring Tool

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
The SMS 2003 Client Health Monitoring Tool provides up-to-date information on the manageability of installed clients in an SMS 2003 SP1 site database. By monitoring client activities, The Client Health Monitoring Tool allows SMS administrators identify potential SMS 2003 site system problems and individual client problems, maintain a more accurate site database, and ultimately predict and increase software distribution success rates:

http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/downloads/2003/tools/clienthealth.asp

SMS 2003 Concepts, Planning, and Deployment Guide

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
If you're looking to become proficient in SMS 2003 then reading this guide is a must. To download it goto:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=784838B3-34E0-4122-B3E2-17C5B4EEF8F4&displaylang=en

SMS 2003 Evaluation Software

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
Download a 120 Day Evaluation Version of SMS 2003 at:

http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/evaluation/2003/default.asp

SMS 2003 Product Documentation

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
There's a whole bunch of documentation available for SMS 2003 on-line which you can access at:

http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/techinfo/productdoc/default.asp

SMS 2003 Reviewers Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/evaluation/future/revguide2003.asp

SMS 2003 Support Centre

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
If you're looking for help and support with SMS 2003 then checkout this new website created by Microsoft to centralise all sorts of information relating SMS 2003:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];sms2003

SMS 2003 Toolkit 1 Now Available

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
The SMS 2003 Toolkit 1 is now available from the SMS 2003 download site:

http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/downloads/2003/default.asp

This Toolkit includes several essential tools such as SMS Trace for working with and troubleshooting SMS log files; CCMCLEAN.EXE which you can use to remove the Advanced Client and loads more.