Post-Installation Considerations

After you upgrade a site, you must perform several additional tasks. You perform most of them from the SMS Administrator console. These tasks include:

Status filter rules after upgrading the site server to Windows Server 2003

If you have configured status filter rules to send a network message when an event occurs, and you upgrade the site server to Windows Server 2003, the status filter rules will no longer run. By default, the messenger service in Windows Server 2003 is disabled. To allow these status filter rules to run, enable and start the Messenger service.

Database maintenance and consistency checks

It is a good idea to back up your upgraded site and to perform database consistency checks. For more information, see Chapter 13, "Maintaining and Monitoring SMS Systems."

This is a good time to schedule the backup task. For more information about backup and recovery, see Chapter 15, "Backup and Recovery."

Differences between the SMS_def.mof files at different sites of the same version in the hierarchy can lead to conflicting hardware inventory data. To prevent conflicts, you should make sure that each site of the same version in the hierarchy uses the same hardware inventory definitions.

For more information about how to standardize the SMS_def.mof files in your hierarchy, see Chapter 6, "Understanding Interoperability with SMS 2.0," in the Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Concepts, Planning, and Deployment Guide.

For more information about how to restore your customized SMS_def.mof files after you upgrade, see Chapter 2, "Collecting Hardware and Software Inventory."

Site configuration

You must configure the site settings for all new SMS 2003 sites. This applies to newly installed SMS 2003 sites and to sites upgraded to SMS 2003 from SMS 2.0. Configuration settings from SMS 2.0 are preserved during an upgrade. For example, you must configure the site boundaries and enable client installation methods to upgrade clients and populate the SMS site database.

In general, perform post-upgrade tasks in the following order:

1. Configure all site settings.

   • Assign new site system roles.

   • Specify the IP subnets or Active Directory sites that define your site boundaries.

   • Enable resource discovery methods.

2. Enable client installation methods.

Finally, after planning the strategy for upgrading your SMS hierarchy, you must plan for features you want to use in SMS 2003. You must determine if your SMS 2.0 clients use features that are not supported SMS 2003. You also must determine if there are any requirements you must meet for new SMS 2003 features.

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