Automate collection & advertisement creation for new package

[SiegmundB]

hi all,

 

If I remember well in SMS 2003 it was possible to automate the creation of new collection and advertisement when one is creating a new package? can this still be done in 2007?

 

let me explain a bit further why I want this:

I have one particular environment with about 9000 clients, 8 secondary sites and 120 BDP systems. everything is provided centrally as a sort of template (collections, advertisments and so on), we are using maintenance windows and power management settings.

 

per package I have 4 collections and 4 advertisements (install & uninstall program, one advertisement with MW, one without).

 

to avoid manual configuraton errors when someone creates a new package I would like a process or script that I can feed with some variables and then automagically builds the rest for me

 

any ideas?

[josharldt]

Check out this link:

 

http://systemcentervnext.com/blogs/mmr/archive/2011/12/04/vbscript-to-create-a-sccm-advertisment-group-ad-quot-install-uninstall-quot-collections-quot-install-uninstall-quot-packages-programs-quot-install-uninstall-quot-with-depentprogram-deployment-in-dp-advertisements.aspx

 

You might be able to modify that to do what you want it to.