1. What is your hardware inventory scan schedule set to? Daily 2. How many clients are in your environment? 13,000 Windows 7 SCCM 2012 SP1 CU3 clients
3. Are you still experiencing a large number of BadMIFs? No From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Art Flores Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 12:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [mssms] HW inventory scan schedule CM 2012 SP1 CU3 I had our CM client settings for hardware inventory configured to do daily scans. After seeing a large number of BadMIF files, and not being able to get rid of them by resetting the inventory to force a full scan, I opened a ticket with Microsoft. They asked me to reset the inventory on the computers causing bad scans (I didn't tell them I had already done this, I wanted to see what they did), so I wrote an updated script and ran the commands again. I got these same commands from an email on this list. WMIC /namespace:\\root\ccm\invagt path inventoryActionStatus where InventoryActionID="{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001}" DELETE /NOINTERACTIVE WMIC /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001}" /NOINTERACTIVE After I reported to Microsoft that the WMIC commands weren't fixing the issue, they did some more troubleshooting, and then made the following 2 changes. Changed the hardware inventory from daily scans to every 4 days, and deleted all the BadMIF files. I would like to ask the group here the following questions to compare numbers against our environment. I personally would like to do daily scans for updated data, but I don't want to have the BadMIF files issue either. 4. What is your hardware inventory scan schedule set to? Changed from daily to every 4 days. 5. How many clients are in your environment? 4,000 6. Are you still experiencing a large number of BadMIFs? No
