Site Maintenance and Administration Tools Overview

The Microsoft BackOffice 4.5 Resource Kit CD-ROM includes these site maintenance and administration tools:

Delete Group Class (DelGrp.exe)

Deletes a group class and its tables from the SMS site database.

License Reports (LicenseReports.mdb)

Accesses the software metering database and generates reports that use the software metering data.

Load Site Boundary (SiteBndy.exe)

Loads site boundaries from a text file.

Load Network Discovery (NDiscLdr.exe)

Loads resources for Network Discovery from a text file. You can specify subnets, domains, SNMP devices, and DHPC servers.

Make Collection (Makecoll.exe)

Creates a new collection by using a text-file list of machine names or IP addresses.

Preferred Server (Localsvr.exe, SetSMSsvr.exe)

Two tools that query the site database for distribution point group and client access point (CAP) network abstraction layer (NAL) paths. These tools place the paths in the client registry to specify preferred distribution point groups and CAPs for the client to use.

Query Extract (SMSExtract.xlt, SMSExtract.xls, SMSExtract.mdb)

Extract SMS query results into individual spreadsheets of a Microsoft Excel workbook or into a Microsoft Access 97 table.

Site Utilities (Preinst.exe)

Diagnoses and repairs an SMS site.