Installing and Configuring SMS Sites

You can install SMSĀ 2003 in different configurations, depending on your business and technical needs. Your satisfaction with this product depends on your understanding of basic concepts. The planning processes described so far in this book focus on gathering information and making choices. You use the results of your documentation and decision-making efforts (clearly defined high-level goals, hardware and software requirements, site hierarchy structure, site system roles, and security measures) to answer questions that arise during installation.

Now that you have completed the planning worksheets and have collected all the information necessary to install your SMS site, you can begin the deployment phase as outlined in FigureĀ 1.2. See Appendix G: "Appendix G - Deploying and Configuring SMS Sites" for a detailed discussion about installing SMS sites.