Systems Management Server 2003 Service Pack 3 Upgrade

Brief Description

SMS 2003 with SP3 introduces support for Vista to your current SMS infrastructure bringing in Software Distribution, Updates and Inventory capabilities. In addition SP3 introduces x64 architecture support for today’s modern business computers, as well as full Asset Intelligence integration for over 400,000 software titles.

Overview

Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 with Service Pack 3 (SP3) brings full Vista support to your organization beyond just OS Deployment, which is already available through the OS Deployment Feature Pack. Now, full lifecycle support of Microsoft’s latest platform including software distribution, update services as well as inventory are available to the Vista Client. In addition, SP3 introduces X64 architecture support for your high performance platforms. SMS 2003 SP3 provides an option to augment existing SMS inventory capabilities with deeper asset intelligence, bringing knowledge driven management with over 400,000 software titles in the library.

If you use SMS 2003 Device Management Feature Pack, please install the SMS 2003 Device Management Feature Pack hotfix (DeviceMgmt-Magneto-KB934206-X86-ENU.exe) to correct the device file collection issue after applying SMS 2003 SP3. Please reference KB 934206 for more details (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934206/ )

If you have SMS 2003 Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates (ITMU) v3 installed on your SMS server and are installing SMS 2003 SP3, you must do one of the following to prevent some ITMU specific reports from returning no data: • Re-compile the ITMU v3 definition file • Rerun the ITMU v3 installation file to repair itself For more information, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 937098: Some ITMU revision 3 reports contain no data after you upgrade to Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Service Pack 3

The following two knowledge base articles contain information regarding the Asset Management reports included with SMS 2003 SP3:
• Article 936850 - The Asset Management License Reports display incorrect channel information for some Windows operating systems in SMS 2003 with Service Pack 3
• Article 936739 - Asset Management Reports in Systems Management Server 2003 Service Pack 3 contain information about obsolete computers Update: The SMS 2003 SP3 upgrade version was refreshed 6/25/2007 to correct the KB number displayed during installation. The previous version displayed the incorrect KB number 899738. The corrected KB number for SMS 2003 SP3 is 933867. Customers who have already downloaded the previous version do not need to download or install the new version.

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System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Server; Windows Server 2003

Please see the SMS 2003 System Requirements page for detailed requirements.

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Instructions

Click the download link for each file on this page and save the download to your computer.
Double-click the self-extracting executable file to open.
Run the setup package.
Follow the instructions presented by the setup wizard and review the release notes.

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