SMS: Systems Management Server Site Reset Functionality

You can perform the following actions during a site reset of Systems Management Server (SMS) 2.0:

• Change the SMS Service account, and password.
• Switch to a different copy of Microsoft SQL Server.
• Modify the database name.
• Specify the SQL Server account that SMS uses to connect to the SMS Site Database.

A site reset retains the current site configuration, but it does not reset permissions on shares. A site reset reinstalls all of the following components: SMS Site Component Manager; SMS SQL Monitor; the thread components of SMS Executive.

You can also use a site reset to recover from a situation in which you manually start SMS_Executive, or SMS_Site_Component_Manager, and you receive the following message: You must perform a site reset locally on the site server. If you attempt to perform a site reset from a remote computer that is running the SMS Administrator Console, the Modify or reset the current installation option is not available.

To perform a site reset from your SMS Site Server, use the following steps:

1. Close all SMS Administrator Consoles.
2. Click Start, click Programs, click Systems Management Server, and then click SMS Setup.
3. Click Next twice, and then select Modify or reset the current installation.

During the site reset, the following events occur:

• Setup allows you to change the SMS Service account and password. If the password that is entered is different from the password in User Manager for Domains, the site reset cannot continue. Make sure that you change, or verify a password in User Manager for Domains, and then synchronize domain controllers.
• Setup attempts to connect to all Client Access Points (CAPs). If the connection is not successful, you receive the following error message:
  SMS Site Component Manager cannot deinstall SMS components from Server ABC. The server is unreachable or down. Retry, Ignore, Ignore All, Abort Setup.
  If there is a good network connection to that computer, you may resolve the problem by clicking Retry. If that computer is not available during a site reset, click Ignore. After you complete the site reset, remove, and then re-assign the CAP role to the affected systems.
• Setup stops, and then starts SMS_Site_Component_Manager, and the thread components of SMS_Executive. A CAP share folder, and SMS_Executive on the local, and remote CAP site systems are removed, and then re-created.
• After Setup installs SMS_Site_Component_Manager, SMS_Site_Component_Manager uses SMS_Server_Bootstrap_computername to install SMS_Executive, and SMS_SQL_Monitor.
• If the site reset does not succeed, check the SMSsetup.log file, which is located on the root drive of the SMS Site Server.
• If you change the password of the SMS Service account, you must be cautious if you have multiple sites, or if you use this account for other functions, such as site communication, or as a software Installation account.
• If the SMSServer_sitecode account does not exist, or has been deleted, this account will be created during the site reset.
• In SMS Service Pack 1, a site reset would re-create the SMS Server Connection (SMSServer_sitecode) account. In Service Pack 2, the user receives a message from site reset that prompts for a password change. The default answer is "No." It states that the only reason to change the password is for a restore, or a recovery process.

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