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Vance Hunt has provided home-user help desk style support for his consulting company for over 6 years. Making his home in beautiful Southern California, Vance provides general computer Q&A for users via his weekly column.

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Icon of Vance HuntFriday, April 20, 2007
Reviving Legacy Google Apps
By Vance Hunt
 
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Q: Last week one [4/13/2007] of your answers had a screenshot that showed a Google bar running on your task  bar.  What Google application was that?
 
A: One of my favorite applications of all time: Google DeskBar!  It was released as a beta application, but then discontinued as a stand-alone product and integrated into the Google Desktop application.  I always personally thought that the Google Desktop product was "a bit much", so I kept the original DeskBar product.  I've installed it on every computer I've built for myself since it's release, and it has worked as expected even on Vista.  You can still find it on a few download sites.


Q: I am running SMS 2003 IN ACTIVE DIRECTORY. The computers are discovered but no clients installed . I notice the SMS_MP_DEVICE_MANAGER is stopped. What will cause this problem?
 
A: I personally am not an SMS guy, but I ran your question past one of our engineers that is, and this was his response.

The SMS_MP_DEVICE_MANAGER components will most likely be stopped when you look at it.  It performs roughly the same purpose as a management point, but for Pocket PCs.  It is active when you have the Device Management Feature Pack installed.  You can read more on it here.

Computers will not have the SMS client automatically installed unless you have correctly configured several of the site settings related to this action.  From the SMS Management Console, navigate to Site Database | Site Hierarchy | [SITE] | Site Settings | Client Installation and access the properties dialog for the Client Push Installation.  Ensure that this feature is enabled, set to push to the correct system types, the correct client type is set, you have properly added at least two domain admin accounts to the Accounts tab, and that you have your installation properties correctly set.  Monitor the site server's CCM.LOG and the client's CCMSETUP.LOG /  CLIENT.MSI.LOG for additional troubleshooting.  You can read more on automated installations in the Systems Management Server 2003 Concepts, Planning and Deployment Guide.




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