Advertisement Properties Dialog Box: Schedule Tab

Use this tab to schedule when (and how frequently) a program is to be made available to clients.

Advertisement start time

The date and time when the program is advertised and available to run on clients. By default, the current date and time is specified. To select another date from a calendar, click the arrow adjacent to the date.

Greenwich Mean Time

Sets the time independent of time zones. That is, if you set the time to 1:00 P.M. and select this option, the program will be advertised on all clients simultaneously — 1:00 P.M. for clients in the Greenwich mean time zone, 10:00 A.M. for clients in the Eastern time zone, and 7:00 A.M. for clients in the Pacific time zone, and so on.

This check box is cleared by default, which enables you to specify a relative time for advertising the program. SMS will treat the specified time as a local time. In this case, if the time is set to 1:00 P.M., the program will be advertised on clients at 1:00 P.M. in each time zone.

Mandatory assignments

If you want to ensure that the program runs on all clients (users cannot choose not to run the program), define one or more assignments.

Click to specify a time in the Assignment Schedule dialog box when the program is to automatically run on the target clients.

Click to modify the selected mandatory assignment in the Assignment Schedule dialog box.

Click to delete the selected assignments.

Assignments are not mandatory over slow links

Suspends assignments for clients on a slow link. By default, this check box is selected. (This option is available only if at least one assignment is defined.)

Allow users to run the program independently of assignments

Enables users to run the program independent of when it is assigned. By default, this check box is cleared. (This option is available only if at least one assignment is defined.)

Typically, only non-assigned programs are visible to users in the SMS client interface. Use this option to display an assigned program in the client interface. For example, to require users to upgrade their Microsoft Office software, you specify an assignment in the advertisement properties. But if you want to enable users to run the installation program before it is scheduled to run automatically, select this option so that the assigned program appears in Advertised Programs Wizard in the Control Panel on client computers.

Advertisement will expire

Advertises the program to clients only for a limited time. By default, this option is cleared.

Note    When a program expires, it no longer appears in Advertised Programs Monitor or Advertised Programs Wizard in Control Panel on client computers.

To specify the cutoff date and time, click the arrows next to the date and time. The default values are six months from the current date and time.

Greenwich Mean Time

Set the time independent of time zones. That is, if you set the time to 1:00 P.M. and select this option, the program will expire at all computers simultaneously — 1:00 P.M. for clients in the Greenwich mean time zone, 10:00 A.M. for clients in the Eastern time zone, and 7:00 A.M. for clients in the Pacific time zone, and so on.

This check box is cleared by default, which enables you to specify a relative time. SMS will treat the specified time as a local time. In this case, if the time is set to 1:00 P.M., the program will expire at 1:00 P.M. on clients in each time zone.

Priority

The advertisement's priority when sent to child sites.

The default priority is Medium.

When you click OK or Apply, SMS ensures that any assignment schedule entries do not occur before the Advertisement start time. SMS also ensures that if an expiration date and time is set, it does not occur before any of the assignment schedule entries or before the Advertisement start time.

Other tabs in this dialog box: General, Security

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