About Advertisements

Advertisements are evaluated by SMS to determine which clients receive a specific program that runs on their computers. An advertisement specifies:

• The program to run on the client.
• The target collection of computers, users, or user groups that will receive the program.
• The schedule that specifies when the program is available to clients.

When you create an advertisement, you can require a program to run at a specified time by defining an assignment. Assigned programs are mandatory, although you can allow users to run programs independent of the assignment schedule.

After an advertisement is created, SMS copies it to the CAPs in the site, where the Advertised Programs Client Agent reads it. If a client belongs to the collection specified in an advertisement and matches the platform requirements for the program, it receives the information. Depending on the settings in the advertisement, one of the following occurs:

• SMS notifies the user that a program is available and takes no further action. The user can run the program immediately, schedule it to run later, or not run it at all.
• SMS notifies the user that a program is available and if the program has not been run by its scheduled time, runs the program. The user can run the program immediately, schedule it to run before the assignment time, or do nothing and allow it to run at the scheduled time.
• SMS does not notify the user and runs the program at the scheduled time or after the specified event.

If the package, program, or advertisement properties are modified, SMS updates the information on the CAPs to reflect the changes.

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