Advertising the Packages

Computers can be upgraded to Windows XP Professional when they receive the appropriate advertisement. The advertisements give descriptive information about the package to end users, and they include the details necessary for SMS to run the programs. The advertisements can even be assigned to run at specific times so that the user cannot block the upgrade or so that the upgrade can occur while the user is away from the computer. The following sections describe how to advertise a Windows XP Professional package.

Selecting Computers

An advertisement tells SMS to make available to an SMS collection a specific program within a package. A collection is a flexible definition of computers, users, or user groups. In the case of a ...

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