We are preparing to use microsoft SMS to do a largescale pushout of the dot net framework 1.1 to about 3000 computers on a network. In a test scenario we issued the package to about 200 and only about 3/4 of the computers succesfully received and installed the package.

The system requirements of all systems is consistent with those listed on the Microsoft website. There appears to be no rhyme or reason to those that failed or those that didn't. Some were new, some were old, some had NT4.0 some had WinXP. Has anyone else had any experience using SMS to pushout the framework to all network clients.

The error reported by SMS on those that failed was...

The program for advertisement "CO1200CE" failed (".NET Framework" - "DotNETfix"). A non-zero exit code of 1603 was returned. Possible cause: SMS Advertised Program Manager (APM) determines status for each program it executes. If APM cannot find or correlate any install status Management Information Format (MIF) files for the program

Anyone else had luck with this? Thanks.