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SMS Tutorials :: The SMS
Client
Before you can
start to manage workstations using SMS, you must
first install the SMS Advanced Client. The
advanced client is used for Windows 2000 and
above and is the only client that is supported
by ITS.
There are many ways
to install the client. These include:
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Client Push
Installation Wizard using the SMS Console
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Group Policy
Software Installation
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Scripts (login,
startup, etc.)
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Included within
an OS image
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Manually
(hands-on) from the local machine
The easiest method
of deploying the SMS client is using the
Client Push Installation Wizard.
However, there are two requirements that must be
met before the client will install will work.
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The Client Push
Installation Wizard uses an AD user account
called SMSremote_UI1, which must be a
member of the local administrator's group of
your client machines. See
this article for instructions on how to
handle this.
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Windows
Firewall port exceptions must include: UDP
137 and 138 and TCP 139 and 445. (These are
the standard File and Print Sharing
exceptions.)
These requirements
may be defined in a Group Policy Object
You may do this directly from the
SMS console by following the
procedure below.
{To see a Flash demo of this procedure,
click here}
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In the SMS Console, right-click on your
root departmental collection | select All Tasks | Install
Client. The following window will
appear. Click Next.
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Select the
radio button by Advanced Client.
Click Next.
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The default options are fine in this window.
Click Next.
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Click Finish.
The
SMS client will be installed on the selected
workstation or selected collection.
However, this may take as long as 30 minutes
before the clients and installed and even longer
before the installations are reflected in the
SMS Console.
Continue to Creating SMS
Software Packages... >>>
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