Learning Plan 2
Documentation/Auditing

Thomas Olivotti

Learning Objectives:

1. Install and Configure Microsoft's System Management Services 2003 (SMS2003) to capture hardware and software inventory of your network.

2. Configure Visio to automatically obtain inventory information from SMS and map a network drawing.

SMS (Systems Management Server)

In this learning plan we installed SMS on our Windows Server 2003. We also set up IIS (Internet Information Services) to work with SMS. I was able to push out clients. I was even able to push out software to clients.

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Hardware of XP client

Here is a picture of using SMS to see the processor specs of a Windows XP client. Using Visio we could create a network topology and link it right into SMS.