Part 3: SMS 2003 Deployment Scenarios

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This section describes three deployment scenarios that you might choose as you define your SMS 2003 deployment strategy. The three scenarios are most effective if you complete the hierarchy-specific and site-specific questions and tasks described earlier in this chapter.

The three scenarios described in this section are not the only deployment methods that you might implement. You might apply a different scenario to each SMS site within your SMS hierarchy depending on the requirements of each site. The unique needs of a specific site might require you to modify the deployment steps appropriately. These three scenarios are meant to be helpful guides instead of rigid rules.

You must consider the effect that the deployment method will have on your organization. For example, you might intend to upgrade an existing SMS 2.0 site to SMS 2003 using the existing SMS servers and site system roles. This case implies that an in-place upgrade is appropriate. However, during the course of the in-place upgrade, some existing SMS clients might be left unmanaged and Class C clients can become orphaned. At the same time, your organization's service level agreements (SLAs) regarding the management of client computers might require that SMS clients must always be managed. Furthermore, you might not be able to suspend those SLAs. Given these considerations, a side-by-side upgrade might be the better choice of deployment method.

This section contains the following topics:

  • New Installation

  • In-Place Upgrade

  • Side-by Side Upgrade

Some of the steps described in the following sections pertain to one or more scenarios. Instead of repeating these steps for each scenario, the flowcharts associated with each scenario identify which flowcharts refer to a specific set of steps. For example, each scenario refers to the installation of management points. When you get to that point in the flowchart for each scenario, the scenario flowchart indicates that you should refer to the management point installation flowchart for steps specific to the installation of a management point.

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