Client Installation Flowcharts

After you initiate and configure client installation methods in the SMS Administrator console, SMS installs client software on computers in your organization. The installation method SMS uses for each client computer depends on both the client installation methods you have initiated and your client operating systems. This chapter contains the process flowcharts for the components that are responsible for client discovery, installation, and configuration. This chapter includes the following client installation flowcharts:

• Windows Networking Logon Discovery and Installation: 32-Bit Client
• Windows NT Remote Client Installation
• Windows Networking Logon Discovery and Installation: 16-Bit Client
• NetWare Bindery Client Logon Discovery and Installation: 32-Bit Client
• NetWare NDS Client Logon Discovery and Installation: 32-Bit Client
• NetWare Bindery Client Logon Discovery and Installation: 16-Bit Client

Before you use the tips and flowcharts in this chapter, you should be familiar with the information presented in the following chapters of the SMS 2.0 Administrator’s Guide:

• Chapter 1, “Introducing Systems Management Server Version 2.0”
• Chapter 8, “Configuring SMS Sites”
• Chapter 9, “Discovering Resources and Installing Clients”

If you have SMS 1.2 site servers in your hierarchy, you should also be familiar with the information presented in the SMS 2.0 Administrator’s Guide, Chapter 5, “Upgrading from SMS 1.2 to SMS 2.0” and you should read Chapter 12, “Upgrading Clients from SMS 1.2 to SMS 2.0,” in this book.

You should also become familiar with the flowchart introductory material in Chapter 16, “Introducing the SMS 2.0 Flowcharts.”