Strategies for Planning

Your goal is to deploy and configure SMS successfully and efficiently, with minimum interruption to your users and the network. Proper planning and a well-documented pilot project can help you achieve this.

Divide your deployment and configuration into phases, communicating and documenting the results at each phase. See the "High Level Planning" section for guidelines on dividing your deployment and configuration into phases. As you do this, review the "Key Elements to a Successful Deployment" section later in this chapter. A sample high-level deployment plan is provided at the end of this section.

For more information about deployment scenarios, see Chapter 1, "Scenarios and Procedures for Deploying SMS," in the Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Operations Guide.

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