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Windows 2000 clients and the SMSCliSvcAcct&

The SMS Client Service will not start! After trying to send out a package, half of the Windows 2000 clients would not install it. On all of the clients that wouldn't install the package, the SMS client service wasn't running.

A little digging pointed to the group policies settings. Our use of restricted groups has caused the "SMSCliSvcAcct&" to be removed from the local "Administrators" group. Once back in, the service starts fine. Anyway else run across this?

From a workstation that has this account, you can add the account name to Group Policies. Choose the local workstation, then choose the account and add it to the administrators group in the policy. Below is a VB Script that will do it for you. Change the "DomainName" and "UserAccount" variables to your own. Easier to deploy across the board with this.

--Begin Script
Dim DomainName
Dim UserAccount
Set net = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")
local = net.ComputerName
DomainName = "DomainName"
UserAccount = "SMSServiceAccount"
set group = GetObject("WinNT://"& local &"/Administrators")
on error resume next
group.Add "WinNT://"& DomainName &"/"& UserAccount &""
CheckError
sub CheckError
if not err.number=0 then
set ole = CreateObject("ole.err")
MsgBox ole.oleError(err.Number), vbCritical
err.clear
else
MsgBox "Done."
end if
end sub