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Before I got started with this blog I thought I would take a few moments to present a bit of background about me and my involvement with SMS2003.

I'm currently an IT Technician in a UK college. I started about four months ago and one of the more interesting points brought up at my interview was SMS. SMS was presented as a technology that could be used for rolling out critical updates, pieces of software and remote control of user's desktop machines. While it was presented as a “you will be working on rolling out SMS” little did I realise just how difficult that would be for me/us to realise.

Currently we've got the client out to most of the machines and from that we can do inventories, scans and remote desktop. But that's it. At one point it was a struggle getting the machines assigned to a site and only yesterday did I finally manage to roll out a critical update to our test machines collection  .

My aim for this blog is to detail the highs and lows of my experience with SMS 2003; to have an easily accessible place of reference for myself, and, hopefully, a resource for other IT Admins who may not have the luxury of time.

I'll leave you with a promise. Just from my work yesterday I have about 4 entries I want to write, all regarding rolling out critical updates. I don't think I will get time to write them all today, so they will get finished off next week.