SMS: Site Config Manager Cannot Use a Preferred Drive Letter

• Microsoft Systems Management Server version 1.2

SYMPTOMS

When using Specified Servers in <Site Properties>\<Domains>, it is possible to specify a drive letter for Systems Management Server Site Configuration Manager to use when installing shares and services.

However when enumerating a domain, there is currently no way to provide for a preferred drive letter. The Systems Management Server Site Configuration Manager will create the Systems Management Server root directory (and shares it as SMS_SHRx) and the SMS_SHR share on the NTFS drive with the most free space on all logon servers. If no NTFS drive exists, it chooses the drive with the most available space even it is a FAT drive.

WORKAROUND

To ensure that the Systems Management Server files will be installed on a specific drive on your Logon Server, make sure that the drive is an NTFS drive and that it has the most free space.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server version 1.2. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: prodsms

Keywords : kbbug1.20 smssiteconfigman
Version : winnt:1.2
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug