Additional network traffic may occur when you run the Security Update Inventory Tool or the Microsoft Office Inventory Tool for Updates in a Systems Management Server 2.0 environment (891778)

CAUSE

Every time that you run these scan tools, the following files are copied from the SMS distribution point to a local directory on the client computer:

Msxml3.tmp
Msxml3a.tmp
Msxml3r.tmp

These .tmp files are required only if the XML component must be installed or upgraded on the SMS client computer. However, the scan tools copy these files to the SMS client computer even when the files are not required to perform the scans.

This process may create approximately 1.2 megabytes (MB) of additional network traffic every time that you run one of the scan tools.

RESOLUTION

Hotfix information

A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that this article describes. Apply it only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem.

To resolve this problem, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services telephone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support

Note In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question.

Prerequisites

No prerequisites are required.

Restart requirement

You do not have to restart your computer after you apply this hotfix.

Hotfix replacement information

This hotfix does not replace any other hotfixes. The English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.

   Date         Time   Version            Size    File name
   --------------------------------------------------------------
   29-Dec-2004  23:25  1.0.200.155     2,469,888  Officepatch_enu.exe  
   29-Dec-2004  23:25  1.0.200.155     2,822,144  Securitypatch_enu.exe  
   29-Dec-2004  23:25  1.0.200.155       167,005  O_scan.exe       
   29-Dec-2004  23:25  1.0.200.155       167,541  S_scan.exe

MORE INFORMATION

How to install this hotfix

After you install this hotfix, the following files are copied from the SMS distribution point to the SMS 2.0 Client computer only if the XML component must be installed or upgraded:

Msxml3.tmp
Msxml3a.tmp
Msxml3r.tmp

Note There is currently no hotfix for this problem for SMS 2003 client computers.

To install the hotfix, run the applicable updated Setup programs, SecurityPatch_xxx.exe or OfficePatch_xxx.exe, on the computer that is acting as the SMS distribution point.

Note xxx is the three-digit language code.

These Setup programs detect and remove previous installations of the scan tools. However, you can permit the Setup programs to skip the removal of the collections, packages, programs, and advertisements that a previous installation of the scan tools created.

If you keep the existing SMS objects that you used during a previous deployment, the Setup programs reuse these objects. If a previous deployment used customized settings, review the settings for the collections, packages, programs, and advertisements to make sure that they are appropriate for your environment.

The settings that these Setup programs use are the default settings. However, the default settings may not be appropriate for all environments.

SMS 2003 Advanced Client computers

To work around this problem for SMS 2003 Advanced Client computers, use the /noxml command-line option with the Scanwrapper.exe tool instead of the scan tools that are described in the "Symptoms" section.

For additional information about how to use the /noxml option with the Scanwrapper.exe tool, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

828602 How to prevent the scan tools from automatically upgrading XML

Note The Scanwrapper.exe tool is used only for SMS 2003 Advanced Client computers. This tool replaces the S_scan.exe and O_scan.exe tools that are used for SMS 2.0 Client and SMS 2003 Legacy Client computers.

For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates