Functional Description of SMSWORK

• Microsoft Systems Management Server versions 1.0 and 1.1

SUMMARY

Systems Management Server uses SMSWORK to do any work that was queued by Systems Management Server before the computer was rebooted. This allows Systems Management Server to execute a program before anything else has been started. This is usually done to reconfigure an operating system during an upgrade, but could be used for anything that needs to be accomplished during start up.

MORE INFORMATION

SMSWORK is run from CLIENT.BAT, which is called from the AUTOEXEC.BAT file (as setup by Systems Management Server during the SMS configuration process). SMSWORK looks in the C:\SMS.INI file for the PendingWork key and executes any command found there. Once this command is executed, the line is cleared so the command is not executed the next time the system is started.

SMS 1.0a Release Notes on SMSWORK

SMS uses a program called SMSWORK.EXE to queue work to be done after a system reboot. SMSWORK is used to do any general work that cannot be done at the time a command is executing, for instance the Operating System Setup Encapsulation programs use SMSWORK to remove or replace files and directories at reboot time.

SMSWORK.EXE looks in the SMS.INI file for the section [SMS Work] and the key PendingWork. The key value is a single command line or a series of comma-delimited command-lines, for example:

PendingWork=Echo Please wait while SMS removes an SMS created temp directory, DEL c:\SMSTMP SMSWORK is invoked by CLIENT.BAT on MS DOS, Windows, and OS/2 SMS clients. On Windows NT computers SMSRUN32 performs these functions.