SMS2003 SP3 and SQL2005 SP2. Do they click?

Tried and tested! SMS2003 SP3 works flawlessly with SQL Server 2005 SP2

Upgrading to SP3

After you upgrade to SMS 2003 SP3, or rerun SMS setup to add modules, always rerun ITMU V3 installation program. You do not need to uninstall current ITMU V3. Just run ITMU V3 installation file (SMSITMU.msi) again, and it will repair itself.

ITMU revision 3 will restore the functional Reporting structures and will not change the existing Packages and Advertisements.

ITMU revision 3 is located in the extracted Service Pack 3 source files folder named SCANTOOLS, or you can download it from Microsoft website. …”

System Center Essentials

SCE is RTM!!! Here is some of the feature list:

• Incident Management – ITIL-based incident forms will enable technicians to record, triage, and diagnose issues for resolution.
• Self service portal – An intuitive, self service portal enables end users to submit tickets, check status, search a knowledge base, and request software through provisioning workflows.
• Change Management – Service Manager includes a collection of change templates and provides an approval workflow to take changes from submission through flexible review stages.
• Asset Management – Users can synchronize inventory from SMS and also create and dispose of assets.
• Knowledge-driven support – IT technicians can author and publish knowledge articles.
• SML-based CMDB – Bringing together information from SMS 2003 SP3 and Active Directory (limited to users), Service Manager includes a CMDB with relationships between hardware, software, and users.
• Data warehouse – SQL-based reporting infrastructure with six canned reports.
• Scalability – In Beta 1, Service Manager will offer limited scale targets supporting 100 Active Directory users and inventory of 250 computers from SMS.
• Asset Lifecycle Management – Service Manager will track licenses and contracts such as warranties and leases.
• Configuration Manager 2007 integration ­– Population of CMDB and integration to Desired Configuration Management.
• Operations Manager 2007 integration – Automated incident creation, task automation, and integration of monitored services.
• Reporting and data warehouse – Complete set of reports measuring IT performance through key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Role-based security
• Scale and performance enhancements
• Active Directory integration – Integration extended to groups

SMS 2003 SP3

Check this link out http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/evaluation/2003/sp3.mspx. It says the following.

“… SMS 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3) brings organizations full lifecycle support for Microsoft’s latest platform including software distribution, update services and inventory are available to the Vista client.

Adding optional capabilities to enhance the software and hardware inventory functionalities provided in SMS 2003, SP3 provides information to help organizations to make better business decisions about their IT assets. Through a new library of over 400,000 software titles, SMS 2003 SP3 provides an option to augment existing SMS inventory capabilities with deeper asset intelligence. SMS SP3 provides rich reporting about installed applications and hardware enabling better license reporting, software consolidation and upgrade planning. In addition, it introduces X64 architecture support for your high performance platforms…”

Online Help

The online help for SCCM 2007 can now be found at:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sms/smsv4/smsv4_help