Re: Read-In Contents of File

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From: D Law (Law_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/18/04 

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 07:04:01 -0700

Thank you both for your time and input. For machines that we are building from this time forward we are placing this info in the registry and I have changed the SMS_DEF.MOF file to inventory this info. But we have a lot of machines already out in production that do not have this info in their registry which under the users context they can not edit the registry. I guess I can write a program and have it advertised through SMS and have the program run with authority to write to the registry and then the inventory will work.
Thanks again,
Dan

"Joseph Calabig [MSFT]" wrote:

> 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,
> Joseph Calabig
>
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> "Stan White [MS]" <stanwh@microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:uTscCGJVEHA.2972@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > 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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> > Stan [MSFT]
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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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