Admin Acct

With SMS 2003 Deployed, supporting 15,000 mixed clients in an NT domain and
2000 in an AD domain. My company wants to create a new domain! Collapsing the
others eventually.
The central site is in the NT domain

I am the only SMS admin, I am certified and have nearly 5 years, 18 hours a
day, hands on experience. I presented a project plan suggesting a combination
of stratagies based on the different domains and the lack of additional
servers.
I wanted to try and make things as seemless as possible, maintaining
services, patch management, software distribution, remote tools and at the
same time be prepared to assist in the new rollout. Unfortunately management
wants to use advanced security, local admin rights and no domain admin rights
for myself.
they feel I only need rights to the sms servers and systems. I advised them
it would be a nightmare and that I felt that it was not the appropriate
method. We could apply advanced security once AD is deployed but that as the
only SMS Admin it would present me with unimagineable management overhead. I
believe that for Microsoft to state that SMS admins don't need domain
accounts is very misleading!

How do you troubleshoot corrupt clients or run scripts or do manual client
installs. How do we use Network Monitor, trouble shoot wins, dns, dhcp or
sites issues?. Try and think of doing day to day ops without domain admin
accts. When you say admin rights as opposed to domain admin in your
documentation the issue is blurred or misunderstood.
Please advise.
.

Relevant Pages

  • Domain Admin Acct
    ... With SMS 2003 Deployed, supporting 15,000 mixed clients in an NT domain and ... local admin rights and no domain admin rights ... How do you troubleshoot corrupt clients or run scripts or do manual client ...
    (microsoft.public.sms.misc)
  • Re: error code 53
    ... Is this just for some clients and not all? ... Might flush netbios cache on site server. ... SMS 2003 Technical FAQ: ... > Time>The account sms is using has admin rights. ...
    (microsoft.public.sms.admin)
  • Re: SMS 2.0 Re-Install Problems
    ... about 100 of these assigned but not clients. ... there are issues in the CCM.log file showing SMS cant ... connect to some of the PC's via the Admin$ shares with the SMS account. ... >> Im having issues getting clients into SMS, the Clients are assigning to ...
    (microsoft.public.sms.setup)
  • Re: SMS Installer Package Installation Access
    ... not sure I was going to say you need to tell SMS to ... install with admin rights, but you say you do that? ... Have you tried sending it to someone who is a full admin on their machine to ... > deploy to clients ...
    (microsoft.public.sms.installer)
  • Re: Secondary Sites
    ... you cannot assign clients to them. ... Check out the SMS Technical FAQ: ... Can the advanced client talk to the existing primary site server if ... You mention that you have a child domain within your LAN. ...
    (microsoft.public.sms.setup)
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