SMS: SMS 2.0 Parent Site Foreign Package Information Not Available to SMS 1.2 Primary Child Site

ID: Q235761

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

In Systems Management Server version 2.0, foreign package information is not replicated down to child sites running Systems Management Server version 1.2. This prevents administrators at these child sites from redistributing packages that were sent from the parent site running version 2.0.


WORKAROUND

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Systems Management Server 2.0. For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q236325 SMS: How to Obtain the Latest Systems Management Server 2.0 Service Pack


STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server 2.0. This problem was first corrected in Systems Management Server 2.0 Service Pack Service Pack 1.

Additional query words: prodsms 


Keywords          : kbinterop kbDatabase kbMMC kbSMS200 kbSMS200bug kbSMS120 kbSMS120bug kbPackage kbSMSAdmin kbSoftwareDist kbUpgrade 
Version           : winnt:2.0
Platform          : winnt 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: July 25, 1999