"How are you doing PST’s?" Not really sure what you mean, but I presume you are asking what we are doing with them. We created everyone an online archive mailbox within Exchange and are importing their PSTs to that mailbox. There are automated ways to do it, but we are small (ish) and are having the helpdesk target the users and work with them to sort used/unused PSTs and start the import. We built the target list from the software inventory job results from SCCM. It's nowhere near a perfect solution, but we are under the gun to get away from PSTs. We have a GPO setting at the domain level to deny PSTs for all users, then have another GPO further down allowing PSTs but filtered by security group. When the user gets their PST imported, we remove them from the group allowing PSTs and then they are denied by the domain GPO. This way we can ensure all new users are denied by default without having to add them to a group for denial.
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Kent, Mark <[email protected]> wrote: > How are you doing PST’s? > > > > Mark Kent (MCP) > > Sr. Desktop Systems Engineer > > Computing & Technology Services - SUNY Buffalo State > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *ccollins9 > *Sent:* Thursday, October 29, 2015 11:18 AM > *To:* mssms <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [mssms] SCCM 2007 R2 - Software Inventory is Incredibly > slow > > > > We use software inventory to identify PSTs on a system. Our goal is to > find them, import them, destroy them and ban the ability to ever create > them again. Like terminating roaches!. It works, but I have run into the > issues mentioned about the 4 hour timeout. There are other PST gathering > tools out there, but we haven't had the chance (or money) to try them out > yet. > > > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Burke, John <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > We haven’t gotten the chance to upgrade to 2012 yet so I’m stuck with > 2007. We are noticing a fair number of clients that are semi healthy with > the exception of software inventory. I’ve seen some posts that simply say > don’t bother using Software inventory because it’s too slow. That seems a > bit silly. Why have the feature at all if it’s going to be useless. > > > > In our environment we often create collections based on exe versions or > dll versions for upgrade purposes. > > > > Internet Explorer for example – seems to be something that you need > software inventory to deal with. > > > > So – I’m wondering what you folks do with Sofwtare Inventory. Do you > bother using it? Did you tweak it somehow to make them faster so they it > doesn’t take hours? > > > > > > > >
