Re: Read-In Contents of File

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From: Joseph Calabig [MSFT] (jcalabig_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:40:06 -0700

As Stan suggested, if you can get this written in the registry somewhere SMS
can get it via Hardware Inventory.
Other ways to it would be to extend Hardware Inventory via NOID MIF.

See if these link help:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sms/sms2/featusability/sms-regx.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sms/sms2003/opsguide/ops_4kj7.mspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/smssdk03/hh/sms/usingsms_1309.asp 

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Thanks,
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"Stan White [MS]" <stanwh@microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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> 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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