Secondary Site Upgrade Methods

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You can use one of the procedures described in this section to upgrade your secondary site. There are three secondary site upgrade methods:

Download the upgrade from the parent site

Use this method when the secondary site does not have an administrator who can perform the upgrade and when the effect on intersite network bandwidth is not a concern. You can upgrade up to five secondary sites at one time.

To download the upgrade from a parent site, see the "Upgrading a Secondary Site from the Parent Site" section later in this chapter.

Initiate the upgrade from the parent site using source files located at the secondary site

Use this method when you want to control the upgrade from the primary site, but want to minimize the effect on intersite network bandwidth. To start the upgrade from the parent site, see the "Upgrading a Secondary Site from the Parent Site" section later in this chapter.

Upgrade locally at the secondary site server by using the SMS 2003 product CD

Use this method when the secondary site has an administrator who can perform the upgrade or when the effect on intersite network bandwidth is a concern. To perform the upgrade locally at the secondary site server, see the "Upgrading a Secondary Site Locally" section later in this chapter.

Note:

  • After you run the Secondary Site Upgrade Wizard at the primary site, the secondary site's properties appear in the details pane when its parent site is selected in the console tree. However, the secondary site's properties do not appear under the parent site in the console tree until the primary site receives the site control file from the upgraded secondary site. This can take up to 24 hours.

Upgrading a Secondary Site from the Parent Site

This section describes how to use the Upgrade Secondary Site Wizard to initiate an upgrade from the parent SMS 2003 site.

To upgrade a secondary site from the parent site

  1. At the parent site, open the SMS Administrator console and navigate to the parent site:

    Where?

    Systems Management Server> Site Database <site code - site name>> Site Hierarchy> <site code - site name>

  2. Right-click the site name in the console tree, click Task, and then click Upgrade Secondary Sites.

  3. On the Welcome page, click Next.

  4. On the Select Sites page, select the secondary sites that you want to upgrade, and then click Next. You can upgrade up to five secondary sites at a time.

  5. On the Installation Source Files page, specify either that installation files are to be downloaded from the primary site server or that the files are already on the secondary site server. Click Next.

    If you specify that the files are located on the secondary site server, the product CD must be inserted into the drive on the site server. Alternatively, you can use an image of the SMS 2003 product CD on the local disk or removable media or on a mapped network connection at the secondary site server.

  6. On the Complete the Upgrade Secondary Site Wizard page, click Finish.

If an upgrade stops responding, ensure that the system requirements are met at the secondary site and that the installation source files are accessible. Then, initiate the upgrade again.

Upgrading a Secondary Site Locally

This section describes how to use the Setup program on the SMS 2003 product CD to upgrade a secondary site at the secondary site server.

To upgrade a secondary site server from the SMS 2003 product CD

  1. Log on to the secondary site server that you are upgrading by using an account that is a member of the local Administrators group on that computer. By default, members of the Domain Administrators group are members of the local Administrators group on computers in the domain.

  2. Insert the product CD into the drive. Or, you can connect to an image of the SMS 2003 product CD on a mapped network drive, a hard disk drive, or a removable drive of the secondary site.

  3. Click Set Up Systems Management Server 2.0.

  4. On the Welcome page, click Next.

  5. On the System Configuration page, click Next.

  6. On the Setup Options page, select Upgrade an existing SMS installation, and then click Next.

  7. On the Completing the Systems Management Server Setup Wizard page, click Finish. Setup removes SMS 2.0 components from all site systems and installs SMS 2003 on the site server.

  8. When the message appears that SMS is installed, click OK.

Because the upgrade process only converts components that you were using in your SMS 2.0 site, you must modify the site to install components that are new in SMS 2003. The procedure is essentially the same as the procedure for modifying a newly converted primary site. For more information, see the "Installing SMS Components" section earlier in this chapter.

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