When preparing to upgrade an existing SMS 2003 site, consider the following information before beginning the upgrade process:
- In order to begin the upgrade process, all
SMS 2003 sites to be upgraded must be at the SMS 2003 SP2 level or
above.
- In SMS 2003, you had the option of
standard security or advanced security, and advanced security was
recommended. In Configuration Manager 2007, you have only one
security mode and that mode is equivalent to SMS 2003 advanced
security mode. Before upgrading an SMS 2003 site, ensure that
the site has been configured to use advanced security. Also verify
that all of its direct child sites are using advanced security
before upgrading the site to Configuration Manager 2007.
- Before you upgrade your SMS site, upgrade any
SMS 2003 Legacy Clients deployed to computers running the
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 operating system, or later,
to the SMS 2003 Advanced Client.
- When performing an upgrade to Configuration
Manager 2007 from SMS 2003, it is important that you first
verify that all site systems meet any new prerequisite
requirements. For instance, Web-based Distributed Authoring and
Versioning (WebDAV) was not a requirement for management points in
SMS 2003, but it is for Configuration Manager management
points. If upgrading a site with a remote management point, you
must ensure that the remote management point meets the WebDAV
prerequisite requirement. The Configuration Manager 2007 Setup
prerequisite checker does not verify that remote site system
prerequisites are met. For more information about Configuration
Manager 2007 prerequisites, see Prerequisites for
Installing Configuration Manager.
- Disable Microsoft® SQL Server™ replication of
the SMS site database, if you enabled it. For more information
about disabling SQL Server replication, see How to Disable SQL
Server Database Replication
- Uninstall any installed SMS 2003 feature
packs, except for the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates.
- During the upgrade process, existing default
collections are not recreated. If custom membership rules were
created for default collections before upgrading the site, the
membership rules for default collections will remain using the
customized query values. If any of the default Configuration
Manager 2007 collections are not present on the site to be
upgraded, they will be created during the upgrade process. To
disable the creation of default collections during Setup, the
/NODEFAULTCOLL Setup command line option can be used.
- When upgrading to Configuration Manager 2007
, immediately following the Configuration Manager 2007 site server
upgrade, the installed inventory tools must be upgraded. The
SMS 2003 inventory tools (including any third-party inventory
scan tools) do not run properly on Configuration Manager sites. The
new version of the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates
(SMSITMU.MSI) is located in \SMSSETUP\SUMSCANTOOLS\I386 on the
Configuration Manager 2007 installation CD. When the inventory tool
upgrade completes, the synchronization task initiates as a separate
process and runs in the background. When synchronization completes,
the new catalog displays in the Software Updates Catalog node of
the Configuration Manager console and the associated software
update information is available.