Re: Reocurring schedules

From: Shehzad Khoja [MSFT] (srkhoja_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:16:29 -0800

No. That is not what I am saying. For patches, the story is different. If
you schedule PatchInstall.exe or ScanWrapper to run every day then it will
run every day but it will only install patches that are not already
installed. If this is not happening then someone on
microsoft.public.sms.software_updates news group will be able to help you.
That news group is specifically for questions\issue specific to Software
Updates Management. 

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"shinabl" <shinabl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:DBC4AE3F-1040-4DEB-AB54-BC06C47F4B2D@microsoft.com...
>I agree with ktp and just want to make sure I completely understand this. 
>I
> have a horde of patches that are being pushed to my workstation 
> collection.
> What I'm seeing is this: every day @ 9:00am some people are complaining 
> that
> their computers slow down.  When I used the software distribution
> troubleshooting tool, sure enough, patches that were ALREADY installed are
> running yet again!  Your saying there is NO way to tell the SMS client 
> "look,
> if the patch is there, just ignore this?".  Please let me know, this seems
> like a flaw to me.
>
>
> "ktp" wrote:
>
>> I don't doubt its usefulness, but there should be an option to "ignore if
>> already installed" ....  that would make a lot of sense in my opinion.
>>
>>
>> "Shehzad Khoja [MSFT]" wrote:
>>
>> > It may not be useful in your environment but it is definitely useful 
>> > for
>> > some of our other customers. Like a retail store can use daily 
>> > schedules to
>> > run a program which updates the inventory in their store or updates the
>> > price of each item for next day.
>> >
>> > Another example would be to run a tool which updates your anti-virus
>> > software...
>> >
>> > These are just few examples...
>> >
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>> > "ktp" <ktp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> > news:B9465B1F-DC75-418A-9E0F-0E9C54DF0CB8@microsoft.com...
>> > >I still think that is useless.   Why install a program twice?  How 
>> > >useful
>> > >is
>> > > it to install the same application, on a daily schedule?   Might be 
>> > > useful
>> > > for triggering scripts and such, but it sure makes software 
>> > > distribution
>> > > messy.
>> > >
>> > > "Shehzad Khoja [MSFT]" wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> If client misses the schedule then SMS will run the program next 
>> > >> time
>> > >> client
>> > >> gets on line. SMS doesn't forget to run a program if it was suppose 
>> > >> to
>> > >> run
>> > >> at 9 PM but machine was not shutdown at 9. SMS will run the program, 
>> > >> it
>> > >> missed to run next time machine restarts. If program failed and 
>> > >> failed
>> > >> with
>> > >> an error code which is not considered to be a non-fatal\retryable 
>> > >> error
>> > >> code
>> > >> then SMS will not re-run the program.
>> > >>
>> > >> List of these error codes are stored in SCF and you can add an error 
>> > >> code
>> > >> if
>> > >> you want SMS to retry on a particular error code it receives.
>> > >
>> > > What is SCF?
>> > >
>> > >>
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>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> "ktp" <ktp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> > >> news:50D54992-25F8-42E4-83BA-D35B37A5E774@microsoft.com...
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Why does SMS continously install packages that have re-ocurring
>> > >> > advertisements?  I mean, shouldn't the client a) receive the
>> > >> > advertisement
>> > >> > again, then  b) check if the package was previously installed, and 
>> > >> > then
>> > >> > silently ignore it if it was?    This doesn't seem to be the case, 
>> > >> > it
>> > >> > just
>> > >> > installs, and install and installs the package.  IMO this a 
>> > >> > weakness in
>> > >> > SMS.
>> > >> >  Half the time clients seem to miss or fail the installs, and if 
>> > >> > they
>> > >> > are
>> > >> > set to install immediately (not occuring or schedule based) it 
>> > >> > will not
>> > >> > try
>> > >> > again, unless you make it re-occuring.   Seems like a catch 22 to 
>> > >> > me.
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> >
>> >
>> >

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