During the June 10, 2008 release of the Microsoft Update catalog, additional metadata that is associated with Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 1 was added to the Wsusscn2.cab file. The catalog synchronization process (UpdateWUSCatalog.exe) was not designed to handle the specific changes, and as a result, synchronization for the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates fails and the latest updates are not available to Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 clients.

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During the SMS 2003 site upgrade to Configuration Manager 2007, Setup detects whether a previous version of the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates is installed on the site and verifies that another installation of the tool is not installed on a site higher in the hierarchy. If both conditions are true, Setup initiates an upgrade for the inventory tool on the site server. During the installation, you can specify whether to download the latest Microsoft Update catalog from the Internet or from a local location.

When a site server is upgraded in silent mode (using the /UPGRADE, /HIDDEN, and /NOUSERINPUT command-line options), the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates Setup also runs in silent mode. During the inventory tool upgrade, Setup will automatically download the latest Microsoft Update catalog from the Internet. If the site server cannot access the Internet, the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates upgrade fails.

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After the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates is removed from the hierarchy, the software updates metadata specific to the tool will be set to an expired state. When there are active deployments that deploy software updates to SMS 2003 clients, the software updates in the deployment will appear as expired, but they cannot be removed. The deployment will continue to work for the valid software updates, but the deployment will be displayed with a gray icon indicating that there are expired updates in the deployment.

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