Setting Advertisements Options

The name of the advertisement, up to 50 characters. This field is required.

Optional text about the advertisement, such as a description. You can use up to 127 characters.

The program (within the current package) to advertise to clients. This field is required.

Select the existing collection that will receive the advertisement. Click Browse to open the Select a Configuration Manager Collection Dialog Box, where you can select the Configuration Manager collection that you want to use in this Advertisement definition. This field is required.

Note: Configuration Manager will not advertise a program to 16-bit clients based on user groups or user accounts, but this is supported for 32-bit clients.

The date and time when the program is advertised and available to run on clients. By default, the current date and time is specified.

Greenwich Mean Time—Sets the time independent of time zones. That is, if you set the time to 1:00 P.M. and select this option, the program will be advertised on all clients simultaneously—1:00 P.M. for clients in the Greenwich mean time zone, 10:00 A.M. for clients in the Eastern time zone, and 7:00 A.M. for clients in the Pacific time zone, and so on. This check box is cleared by default, which enables you to specify a relative time for advertising the program. Configuration Manager will treat the specified time as a local time. In this case, if the time is set to 1:00 P.M., the program will be advertised on clients at 1:00 P.M. in each time zone.

If you want to ensure that the program runs on all clients (users cannot choose not to run the program), select:

Note: Recurring assignments are not supported on 16-bit clients. Programs advertised to 16-bit clients run only once on those clients.

Suspends assignments for clients on a slow link. By default, this check box is selected. (This option is available only if at least one assignment is defined.)

Enables users to run the program independent of when it is assigned. By default, this check box is cleared. (This option is available only if at least one assignment is defined.)

Typically, only non-assigned programs are visible to users in the Configuration Manager client interface. Use this option to display an assigned program in the client interface. For example, to require users to upgrade their Microsoft Office software, you specify an assignment in the advertisement properties. But if you want to enable users to run the installation program before it is scheduled to run automatically, select this option so that the assigned program appears in Advertised Programs Wizard in the Control Panel on client computers.

Advertises the program to clients only for a limited time. By default, this option is cleared. This feature is not supported on 16-bit clients; the program appears until it runs on the client.

Note: When a program expires, it no longer appears in Advertised Programs Monitor or Advertised Programs Wizard in Control Panel on client computers.To specify the cutoff date and time, click the arrows next to the date and time. The default values are six months from the current date and time.

Greenwich Mean Time—Set the time independent of time zones. That is, if you set the time to 1:00 P.M. and select this option, the program will expire at all computers simultaneously—1:00 P.M. for clients in the Greenwich mean time zone, 10:00 A.M. for clients in the Eastern time zone, and 7:00 A.M. for clients in the Pacific time zone, and so on. This check box is cleared by default, which enables you to specify a relative time. Configuration Manager will treat the specified time as a local time. In this case, if the time is set to 1:00 P.M., the program will expire at 1:00 P.M. on clients in each time zone.