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I’ve finally got a couple of systems up and running which allow me to try out Active Directory (2003) and SMS 2003 from scratch.

Firstly, you need to ensure that you have installed all the appropriate windows components in order for SMS to fully function. What you want is all hidden inside the “Application Server” section. Go into IIS and ensure BITS is enabled, and then into WWW Service and enable ASP, WebDAV and WWW Service.
If you’re going to install AdminStudio, find your way back to “Application Server” and enable ASP.NET .

Then when you get around to installing SMS, do ensure that you are a member of Domain Admins, or else you will have to extend the schema by running extadsch. And then you have to create the System Management container in AD. There are more details on what how to do this in the Active Directory Schema Modification and Publishing for Systems Management Server 2003 white paper.

I’m not quite sure what got the IP address of my AD server – it was either Network Discovery or AD System Discovery. But, as recommended, I set a subnet for the AD site in AD Site and Services —> Sites —> Subnets.

Ah, I found that I had set the site boundaries to be an IP address range. I’ve just changed to use AD rather than IP, so it should start ignoring the Linux boxes .