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SMS Operations

Note: CA Data Protection deployment has been tested using SMS 2.0 SP3 in conjunction with Windows 2000 SP2. CA Data Protection may deploy successfully using other versions of SMS and under other service packs, but these have not been tested.

You can remotely deploy CA Data Protection to client machines using Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS). When deploying CA Data Protection using SMS, you base the deployment on a collection of machine accounts. Then you set up a software installation package for this collection. We recommend that you set up the package to use a scheduled, mandatory assignment; this ensures that CA Data Protection is installed to the client machines at the time when you want.

The SMS installation procedure comprises the following steps

1. Select a machine-based collection.
2. Create a new software installation package.
3. Specify the package folder containing the source files.
4. Define an installation program.
5. Choose the machines to act as package distribution points.
6. Create an advertisement containing the assignment schedule.
7. Deployment start time is defined by the assignment schedule.

These steps are described in the following sections.