It's a surprisingly big download - checking in at 37MB. If you're still using Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003, then this patch will help you easily open, edit, and save files created with newer versions of Office. However, before you install this pack, make sure to download and install all of the latest updates from Microsoft. If you're using an unpatched version of Office, this download will fix it. My overall impression is that it is better to wait for SP3 before using SMS 2003 with Vista in a productive environment.Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack makes files created with Office 2007 and later work seamlessly on earlier versions of Office. I wouldn't risk that with SMS 2003 SP2, anyway. I, also, didn't test the distribution of Software Updates since we used WSUS for that. He has further information regarding the compatibility of SMS 2003 SP2 with Vista and Longhorn Server. Shitanshu wrote that SP2 doesn't support Hardware Inventory for Vista, so I didn't try it. The Event Viewer of Vista is quite different to the that of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. Some of these Windows tools started by the SMS are incompatible with Vista. These tools didn't work: Event Viewer and Remote Assistance. These tools had no problems with Vista: Resource Explorer, Windows Diagnostics, Performance Monitor, and Remote Desktop. I, then, tried several remote management tools some worked, some didn't. I was able to distribute an MSI package containing Firefox (just for the fun of it) as an attended installation, and as an unattended installation. Software distribution, worked without major problems. However, managing Vista with SMS 2003 SP2 only worked partly. However, it is possible to install the SMS client manually, by starting the setup on the share (SMSclient) on an SMS server.
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