SMS 2003 Software Distribution

• "Access is Denied" error on a script file being used to start from an SMS 2003 Program [15/11/05]
• Daily Recurring Advertisements either run an hour too early or late when the time changes to/ from BST [27/08/08]
• Distributing Windows 2000 SP4 Fails with "A failure exit code of 1603 was returned" [09/12/04]
• Packages not being deployed to Vista SP1 Clients yet Vista RTM Clients work fine [07/08/08]
• "The operating system reported error 2147942405: Access is denied." [26/03/04]

"Access is Denied" error on a script file being used to start from an SMS 2003 Program

Contributed By: Scott Brimley [MSFT]
If you are seeing this error it could be down to how you are running the Program... [Go to article]
 

Daily Recurring Advertisements either run an hour too early or late when the time changes to/ from BST

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP ConfigMgr/ SMS]
If you are running your Adverts using daily recurring schedules you may experience an issue with your Adverts running an hour too early or too late when the time changes between BST and GMT and vice versa... [Go to article]
 

Distributing Windows 2000 SP4 Fails with "A failure exit code of 1603 was returned"

Contributed By: David Randall [MSFT]
If SMS is reporting a 1603 error when you try to distribute software then here's some advice... [Go to article]
 

Packages not being deployed to Vista SP1 Client yet Vista RTM Clients work fine

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP ConfigMgr/ SMS]
If you're having problems with Packages not deploying to Vista SP1 machines despite checking the "All x86 Vista" and "All x64 Vista" options in the Package Properties you'll need to apply this hotfix... [Go to article]
 

"The operating system reported error 2147942405: Access is denied."

Contributed By: Carl Sullivan [MSFT]
If you’re seeing this error message when trying to run an Advertisement it's probably down to the account you're using for Software Distribution... [Go to article]