SMS 2003 - How can I re-run a program occasionally on client where it has already ran succesfully?

From: Mark Onders (Mark_Onders_at_progressive.com)
Date: 07/19/04 

Date: 19 Jul 2004 13:49:37 -0700

Running SMS 2003, Advanced Clients, all Windows 2000+ clients

Is there any way to create a package / program such that it can be
advertised multiple times to the same collections of servers? I'm
trying to execute the same script on the SMS client which basically
goes out and updates some files on the server. The script never
changes, so the program definition in SMS doesn't change. When it is
advertised again, SMS doesn't run it saying that the program already
ran successfully on the client. Is there any way around this?
Currently we are creating a new program definition in the package for
each advertisement to get the script to run again, but this is
cluttering the console, reports, and the DB.

Also, I've looked into adding additional schedules to a single
advertisement causes some other difficulties in tracking the status
over time and for targeting different collections at different times.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

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