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Continuing on with my software distribution escapades, I tried rolling out the Browse Control client to a classroom full of PCs.

Having done it manually twice already I didn’t fancy doing it again. And besides, as we have a site licence for it, it is going to be pushed to all the classrooms and I would like to see if I can get SMS to start doing some of the leg work  .

So, to that end, I copied the client setup program into a folder on our SMS server, modified the configuration to point to the appropriate teacher machine, packaged it up, distributed it and advertised it.

And so I opened up the Status Message Viewer for the appropriate advert and watched the systems all get the advert. This was about 14:30. Several hours later the package had not been run on the systems and I was getting concerned. I can’t remember exactly what I did – I’m positive that I just re-advertised the program – but I when I arrived this morning the Status Message Viewer was showing that all the clients had installed the program sometime after 17:00 yesterday.

Now to package up the Console .