Re: SMS 2003 sp3 Admin Consoles

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spg7752 wrote:
Hi All,

My question is concerning SMS admin consoles. I have a SMS 2003 SP3 environment with 4 secondary sites. I currently have an admin console on the primary site server. The problem I am having is when I try to load the administrators console on my desktop. The option to install the consoles is grayed out and not an option. We were a previous SMS 2.0 sp5 installation. Our new environment was a clean install. We limit the admin consoles but there are several staff that need to have the console available. Is there a reason for this happening? In the passed with SMS 2.0 I just installed the console from the SMS CD. Is it done differently in SMS 2003.

Steve
Nope, should be identical to how it was in sms 2.0.
You might want to look in registry whether there is something left in hklm\software\microsoft\sms. If so, you could try to delete this entire hive (on Machines OTHER than your site server, and without the sms client installed.!!!)

The workstations are member of the domain, right?



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