Re: Read-In Contents of File

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From: Stan White [MS] (stanwh_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:35:39 -0700

Seems like it would be easier to stamp the data in the registry once and
then customize hardware inventory to pick it up.
(I'm guessing your environment won't allow you to do this with the machine's
account in AD). 

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"D Law" <D Law@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:5B04B762-8BEE-45C3-9D8D-F7CF59A941C4@microsoft.com...
> Does anyone wkow if it is possible for SMS to read-in the contents of a 
> .txt file that would be located on each client under c:\%systemroot%\ and 
> then store that information in the SMS database or take that information 
> and store it in the registry?  We have a .txt file on each client that has 
> a 4 digit number (ex. 0001 thru 4400) which indicates which dept this 
> machine belongs to.  We would like to read this information into SMS.
>
> Thanks for your time.
> Dan

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