If you do decide you need to look for files, and you are on cm12, you can use a local policy override to turn off the built in delays between rules in sinv. http://www.mnscug.org/blogs/sherry-kissinger/287-cm12disableinventorythrottling
On October 29, 2015 3:24:27 PM CDT, Garth Jones <[email protected]> wrote: >But a CI will fulfill this requirement by letting you know that there >are PST on the computer. Yes, when you go to “kill” the PST you will >need to search for it on the local computer but… > >Take this example of SW. It has been running since Oct 28 @ 8.39am. and >it is still going.. (second screenshot) > >Notice that while this is going on, all Hardware and Heartbeat >discoveries are getting backlogged. >Also notice that the soft timeout has happened twice in the first >screenshot. > > >[cid:[email protected]] > >[cid:[email protected]] > >From: [email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Sandys >Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 2:58 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [mssms] SCCM 2007 R2 - Software Inventory is Incredibly >slow > >Note though, that Sherry’s script, great as it is, only looks for PSTs >actively attached to Outlook. This may or may not satisfy the actual >requirement. If the requirement is to find all PSTs, in use or not, >then the script does not fulfill this. SW Inv does however. > >J > >From: >[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Garth Jones >Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 1:30 PM >To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >Subject: RE: [mssms] SCCM 2007 R2 - Software Inventory is Incredibly >slow > >“Because up until 5 minutes ago I didn't know it existed. I will >assuredly be looking into it now tho, that's for sure.” > >☺ > > >From: >[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ccollins9 >Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 2:14 PM >To: mssms >Subject: Re: [mssms] SCCM 2007 R2 - Software Inventory is Incredibly >slow > >"Are you simply telling SW inventory to look for .PST?" > >Yes, unfortunately we have it looking at all hard drives because there >are several fileservers out there that it can be on. That and I've seen >users store them in very odd locations of their profiles. So right now >we have it set to *.pst, all drives, excluding windows folder. > > >"Again, why wouldn’t you use a CI or Sherry’s PST script?" > >Because up until 5 minutes ago I didn't know it existed. I will >assuredly be looking into it now tho, that's for sure. > > > > >On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Garth Jones ><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >Again, why wouldn’t you use a CI or Sherry’s PST script? Both are lite >weight in comparison to SW inv. > >From: >[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >[mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] >On Behalf Of Kent, Mark >Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 11:46 AM >To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >Subject: RE: [mssms] SCCM 2007 R2 - Software Inventory is Incredibly >slow > >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]> >[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ccollins9 >Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 11:18 AM >To: mssms <[email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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? -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
