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SMS Tutorials ::
Creating an Advertisement
An
advertisement defines an instance where a
certain package is distributed to a certain
collection. You will select the
package, program within that package assign it
to a collection. Finally, you will define
when this advertisement should run.
Creating an Advertisement
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To create an
advertisement, right-click Advertisements
in the SMS Console. Then select New |
Advertisement. You should
name the advertisement in the format of
"<package name> to <collection name>
Advertisement".
Then select the appropriate package and
program within the package from the drop
down menus. Select the
appropriate collection that you want the
advertisement to go to. Check the
Include members of subcollections box if
you would like the advertisement to apply to
any subcollections that may be defined under
the selected collection. Otherwise,
the advertisement will only to the machines
explicitly in the top level collection.
(In most cases, the top level collection
will contain all members of the
subcollection anyways so you may leave this
box unselected.)
Click the Schedule tab.
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In most cases,
you will want to start the advertisement
immediately. Do this by clicking on
the indicated Starbust button shown
below. In addition, you may define an
expiration date. Priority should
generally stay at Medium.
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By default, the current time
and date will be selected. If you
would like to select another date and time,
click Schedule and you will see the
Schedule window below.
Otherwise, click OK.
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If you clicked Schedule
in the last step and would like to schedule
a certain time and date and whether the
advertisement recurrs, you may do so in this
window. Click OK.
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On the Advanced Client, you
may select different options for whether the
installation runs directly from the
Distribution Point or whether the files will
be downloaded to the machine first and then
run. (This is analogous to whether you
would run an installer file directly from a
network share i.e. from
\\server\share\installer.msi OR download it
first and run the installer from
C:\downloads\installer.msi.)
Generally, you would choose the option to
Download program from distribution point
for larger installations to avoid excessive
system utilization on the SMS server.
The two options you select on this page
should be the same. (i.e. options are
set to Run program from distribution
point, etc.
Click OK to finish the Advertisement.
The advertisement should now to active and
will begin pushing the package to the systems in
the collection you defined shortly.
Depending on network traffic and/or SMS server
load, it should take between 15 and 60 minutes
for the package to get to all systems in the
collection.
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