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SMS: Retaining Status Summaries After Advertisement Done

Article ID: 207722

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q207722

SUMMARY

When you delete an advertisement, the status summary for the advertisement is also deleted. This prevents a build-up of obsolete status summaries. However, you may want to maintain the status summaries after you are done using the advertisement for a variety of reasons, such as:

You expect status information to continue to arrive from child sites.
You want to collect status information on advertisements over time.
The advertisement was a pilot project, and you want to analyze the summary data as you plan the full rollout.

MORE INFORMATION

To stop an advertisement but maintain the status summary for the advertisement, do either of the following:

Set the expiration time for the advertisement to a time in the past, as follows:
1. Open the SMS Administrator console and expand Site Database. Then expand Advertisements.
2. Right-click the advertisement you want to modify, and then click Properties on the shortcut menu.
3. Click the Schedule tab.
4. Set the Advertisement Will Expire to a time in the past. As little as a minute before the present is sufficient.
The advertisement and its status summary continue to exist but the advertisement no longer runs on clients.
Disable the program, as follows:
1. Open the SMS Administrator console and expand Site Database. Then expand Packages, expand the package you want to modify, and expand Programs.
2. Right-click the program you want to modify, and then click Properties on the shortcut menu.
3. Click the Advanced tab.
4. Select the Disable this program on computers where it is advertised checkbox.
This prevents any advertisement from running the program. The advertisement and its status summary continue to exist in the Administrator Console, but the advertisement for the program no longer runs on clients.

Additional query words: prodsms smsstat

Keywords: kbinfo kbstatsum KB207722