SMS: Advertisements Are Sent with Wrong Priority

• Microsoft Systems Management Server version 2.0

SYMPTOMS

When you create an advertisement in Systems Management Server 2.0, you can set the sending priority to low, medium, or high. When you choose either a low or high priority, the actual sending priority used by the site server is reversed, as detailed in the following table.

Selected priority	Actual priority
low	high
medium	medium
high	low

This behavior does not apply to the sending priority that you can set on packages.

WORKAROUND

When you create an advertisement that needs a high priority, set the advertisement priority to low.

STATUS

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

MORE INFORMATION

This behavior can adversely affect the timely delivery of advertisements in a multiple-site hierarchy. Because site-to-site communication occurs using a medium priority, any advertisements that are configured to use a high priority are preempted by the site-to-site traffic.

It is especially important to configure advertisements created at a parent site with a low priority if a fast delivery to the client is required.

Additional query words: prodsms ad not received apm

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