SMS: Cannot Change the Name of a Program in SMS 2.0

• Microsoft Systems Management Server version 2.0

SYMPTOMS

In Systems Management Server 2.0, the name of a program cannot be changed or modified in any way after it has been created. The database structure currently does not allow this modification.

CAUSE

The program name is a database key; thus the name is used to identify a package's program in advertisements. If the key were changed, it would orphan any advertisements that rely on the key to identify the program.

WORKAROUND

If you must change the name of a program, you must delete and re-create it with the same settings it originally had (except for the name). The advertisements, which are deleted with the program, as well as the security, must also be re-created, as with the creation of any new program.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server version 2.0.

MORE INFORMATION

Using the Systems Management Server Software ToolKit (STK) to override this limitation is strongly discouraged because it will most likely yield an error with WMI PutInstance. At this time, it is not known what other side effects modifying this parameter might have on the database and the Systems Management Server site server itself. Making this change by means of the STK is likely to have detrimental effects on, but not limited to, the STK itself, future upgrade possibilities, some server subsystems, the database, and some client components.

Note that you can change the names of packages, collections, and advertisements in Systems Management Server 2.0.

Additional query words: prodsms swdist32

Keywords : kbSMS200 kbSMS200bug kbSoftwareDist
Version : winnt:2.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug