SMS: Excluding Computers from Windows NT Remote Client Installation

ID: Q207729

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SUMMARY

Following is an explanation of how an administrator specifies computers to be excluded from discovery and installation by the Windows NT Remote Client Installation service. In addition, you may want to exclude specific workstations and/or servers that reside within site boundaries from becoming Systems Management Server 2.0 clients.


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To exclude servers and workstations from being discovered and installed as Systems Management Server 2.0 clients, perform the following steps on the site server:

  1. Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).


  2. Locate the following key in the registry: 
    
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\SMS\Components


  3. On the Edit menu, click New, then select Key. Type SMS_DISCOVERY_DATA_MANAGER for the new key.



  4. With the new key selected, on the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following: 
    
   Value Name: ExcludeServers
   Data Type:  REG_MULTI_SZ
   Value:    <computer names to exclude>


  5. Modify the value to add or remove the Windows NT computer names that you want to exclude from receiving Systems Management Server 2.0 Client Components installed on them. Delineate multiple entries with a <Return> tag to place them on separate lines.


  6. Click OK when finished and close the Registry Editor.


Note that after the system is discovered, and in the discovery database, removing the server name from the ExcludeServers list will not cause the computer to install. The client can be installed on this computer if either Logon Discovery method or Logon Installation method is enabled and Smsman.exe is run on the client. SMSMAN can be distributed with software distribution to the target server.

Additional query words: prodsms smssetup machine machines 


Keywords          : kbSMS200 kbDiscovery 
Version           : winnt:2.0
Platform          : winnt 
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: June 17, 1999