I was reading some doc from Dell a couple years ago and they have some custom PST importer as well. No clue on the cost.
Most of our PST’s are local, some are on network shares (even though MS says you should not be using PST’s on shares in any way, shape or form). We can’t just clobber them or import them because of our capacity constraints but we are most likely moving to the cloud within a year. All of these messages are good info! Mark Kent (MCP) Sr. Desktop Systems Engineer Computing & Technology Services - SUNY Buffalo State From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lindenfeld, Ivan Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 11:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [mssms] SCCM 2007 R2 - Software Inventory is Incredibly slow Have you? We have. Our experience is that it would take us 8-10 years to ingest all of our PST’s and it is not a free service. That article says nothing about $. It’s possible it was another service from Microsoft we were using, but it sure smells the same reading that. We are doing a POC on PST FlightDeck from QuadroTech. No feedback to offer yet. Ivan Lindenfeld From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jerousek, Jeff Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 11:01 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [mssms] SCCM 2007 R2 - Software Inventory is Incredibly slow Have you tried Microsoft’s tool? https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh781036(v=exchg.141).aspx Thanks, Jeff Jerousek From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcum, John Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 9:37 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [mssms] SCCM 2007 R2 - Software Inventory is Incredibly slow It works as long as the pst is connected. That’s how we got rid of pst files. We ingested the connected ones and set a GPO so people can’t connect any afterwards. When they try to connect one they have stored they can’t do so, they call asking why and we import it. ☺ ________________________________ John Marcum MCITP, MCTS, MCSA Desktop Architect Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ________________________________ [cid:[email protected]] From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Sandys Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 9:27 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [mssms] SCCM 2007 R2 - Software Inventory is Incredibly slow Yeah, that would be bad. For that task, you need to use another tool for sure. Sherry’s script still wouldn’t be helpful here either. You’d need a dedicated file server tool like FSRM. J From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcum, John Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 2:59 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [mssms] SCCM 2007 R2 - Software Inventory is Incredibly slow I envisioned the pst sitting on an H: drive and software inventory trying to scan that. ________________________________ John Marcum MCITP, MCTS, MCSA Desktop Architect Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ________________________________ [cid:[email protected]] From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Sandys Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 2:44 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [mssms] SCCM 2007 R2 - Software Inventory is Incredibly slow No, not on desktops. On file servers, yes for sure, but most likely not workstations (although it is still a possibility). J From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcum, John Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 2:02 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [mssms] SCCM 2007 R2 - Software Inventory is Incredibly slow Not really because it’s likely, as you noted in an MMS presentation, that SINV will timeout before it completes. ________________________________ John Marcum MCITP, MCTS, MCSA Desktop Architect Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ________________________________ [cid:[email protected]] From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Sandys Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 1:58 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[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? ________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is from a law firm and may be protected by the attorney-client or work product privileges. 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