Foreign NAD Items Remain After Child Detaches

• Microsoft Systems Management Server versions 1.0 and 1.1

SYMPTOMS

When a child site detaches from a parent site, any packages or program groups defined at the parent site exist and are preserved on the child site.

WORKAROUND

After a child site detaches from a parent, you may want to remove the previous parent site's network applications database (NAD) from the child. Removal of the parent's NAD does not automatically occur because of the potentially dramatic effect it could have on client machines (program groups and program items being removed) even though access to these items may still exist.

To initiate a transaction in the Systems Management Server Applications Manager, use the following procedure, run the NADRESET.BAT file in the PSSTOOLS directory on the CD. This file performs the following steps:

• Creates a 10000000.NAD directory in <SMSROOT>\SITE.SRV\SITECFG.BOX.
• Creates a TRANSLOG.CLR file in the 10000000.NAD directory.
• Creates an ALL.RST file in the 10000000.NAD directory.

The next polling interval for the Applications Manager removes foreign NAD items. There will be a period of time before the changes are propagated to the MAINCFG.BOX\APPCTL.SRC\DATABASE directory. Following this processing, the files created in the list above are automatically removed by the Applications Manager.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server versions 1.0 and 1.1. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.