Thanks for the great series.
But I have wound up being not able to install agents on clients. This is probably because clients can't access \\CM01\SMS_MPL\Client. (MPL being my sitecode). Can you recommend a document describing required permissions for this environment. I assume I simply need to drop my users group into a local group on CM01 but some experimenting has brought no joy yet and I am loath to do anything with permissions I can't immediately back out of.