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Q235805: SMS: Package Job Status Not Reported From 1.2 Child to Parent

Article: Q235805
Product(s): Microsoft Systems Management Server
Version(s): winnt:2.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbsms200 kbsms200bug
Last Modified: 10-JUL-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Systems Management Server version 2.0 
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SYMPTOMS
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When a Systems Management Server 2.0 parent site receives a Systems Management
Server 1.2 package status Management Information File (MIF), the despooler at
the Systems Management Server 2.0 site will convert it to a package status
record and create a *.sta file in the distribution manager inbox.

Systems Management Server 2.0 Distribution Manager does not correctly process the
status and an error occurs in the SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER log such as the
following:

  This PkgID (100Z0006) does not exist in the parent table, SMSPackages.

CAUSE
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The format of certain status files generated at a Systems Management Server 1.2
site prevents the status from being processed successfully by Distribution
Manager on a Systems Management Server 2.0 site.

More specifically, Systems Management Server 1.2 replaces the fourth character of
a Package ID with a "Z" to indicate the success of a Share Package on Server
job. When distribution Manager on the Systems Management Server 2.0 site
attempts to process this update, it fails to locate the specific Package ID
because it does not exist in the site database with a Z in the fourth position
of the Package ID.

STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server
version 2.0. This problem has been corrected in the latest U.S. service pack for
Systems Management Server version 2.0. For information on obtaining the service
pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the
spaces):

  S E R V P A C K

Additional query words: prodsms

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Keywords          : kbsms200 kbsms200bug 
Technology        : kbSMSSearch kbSMS200
Version           : winnt:2.0
Issue type        : kbbug

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