Site-Wide Travel mode prevents Windows NT remote client installation (299772)

SYMPTOMS

When you configure a Systems Management Server (SMS) site with site-wide Traveling mode set to "always on", Windows NT Remote Client Installation does not work and the following message is logged in the Ccm.log file if logging is enabled:

---> Travel mode is turned ON & the client is NOT currently assigned to this site. Discarding CCR

CAUSE

The following scenario causes Client Configuration Requests (CCRs) to be abandoned, therefore preventing Windows NT Remote Client Installation:

The SMS site is configured to have Traveling mode always enabled. This is where the Traveling mode switch is set to 1. For more information, view the More Information section in this article.
The SMS client is attempting to install on a Windows NT-based computer where the logged on user is not an administrator (low rights user).

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Systems Management Server version 2.0. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

288239 SMS: How to Obtain the Latest Systems Management Server 2.0 Service Pack

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Systems Management Server 2.0 Service Pack 4.

MORE INFORMATION

The following article describes SMS Traveling mode and the SMS Support tools, Chktravl.bat and Clitravl.exe:

199114 How to Configure Traveling Mode on Client Computers

Traveling Mode is an SMS client registry setting that dictates the SMS client behavior for mobile clients when they enter the boundary of a site to which they are not currently assigned. Traveling mode is discussed in the Traveling Mode section in chapter 9 of the Microsoft Systems Management Server Administrator's guide. There are three ways to modify Traveling mode, each with increasing levels of granularity:

Using the Systems Management Control Panel plug-in.
Using modification of the SMS client registry with the CliTravl utility which affects a single client at a time.

The hotfix modifies the CCM design to allow CCRs from new clients (that currently have no SMS client components installed), to have the SMS client remotely installed. Other Traveling mode site settings are not affected.