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Examining Microsoft's SMS 2003: Page 9 of 10

  • At installation time, the SMS Site installation log file (SMSSETUP.LOG) is created on the root of the system drive by default. This file contains detailed installation information like the AD schema extension, the creation of the database and the registration of the DLLs.

    The SMS Advanced client log files are under the default locations %windir%\system32\CCM\logs and %windir%\system32\ccmsetup. These log files have information on the installation, as well as on the individual components that run on the SMS client machine. The legacy client log files can be found in %windir%\ms\sms\logs, which also contains information on the installation and the individual components that run on the SMS client machine.

    Microsoft expects to ship its Service Pack 1 for SMS in the third quarter. The Service Pack will include a Client Health monitor, with which you can check the general health of the SMS advanced clients using tests to determine if the machine is up or if the advanced client is installed and running correctly.

    SMS 2003 generates status messages about advertisements, packages, sites and message queries, which provide a quick look at the overall health of the SMS infrastructure.

    The SMS server logs are still your best resource for detailed information on each SMS thread that runs. These are located under the site server at SMS/logs. SMS 2003's troubleshooting tools are very similar to those of SMS 2.0.