An advertisement for a program that uses the Software Updates Installation Agent does not run in Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 (886082)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003

SYMPTOMS

When you advertise a program that uses the Software Updates Installation Agent program (Patchinstall.exe), and you do not specify a recurrence pattern for the advertisement, the advertisement does not run on Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 client computers.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, follow these steps to specify a recurrence pattern for the advertisement:
  1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Systems Management Server, and then click SMS Administrator Console.
  2. Expand Site Database (SiteCode - SiteName), and then click Advertisements.
  3. In the console tree, right-click the advertisement that you want to modify, and then click Properties.
  4. On the Schedule tab, click the new mandatory assignment button, and then click Schedule.

    Note The new mandatory assignment button has a yellow star.
  5. In the Schedule dialog box, click one of the following options in the Recurrence pattern area, and then accept or change the default recurrence schedule:
    • Interval
    • Weekly
    • Monthly
  6. Click OK three times.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

MORE INFORMATION

After you set a recurrence pattern for the advertisement, you configure client computers to periodically evaluate new settings and updates that you authorize. We recommend that you choose a setting that is more frequent than the rate at which you authorize new updates. This setting also controls how frequently users can be reminded of pending updates.

For additional information about related issues, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

842717 "An error was encountered while checking for updates" error message when users try to run a Software Updates package in Systems Management Server 2003

826854 How to troubleshoot problems that occur when you use SMS 2.0 or SMS 2003 to advertise programs to SMS clients

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:11/22/2005
Keywords:kbSMSUpdates kbSMSPackage kbSMSFeaturePack kbSMSDistribution kbwinservperf kbMgmtServices kbprb KB886082 kbAudITPRO
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