Re: Replacement for MifWin for custom inventory?
- From: "Dan" <dan65421@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:02:01 -0400
I too have experienced similar results with MIFWIN and the SMS 2003 advanced
client. Any help with an updated MIFWIN utility or a workaround would be
greatly appreciated.
"Casey Moore" <CaseyMoore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7544FFD6-D1BE-4F34-B2AE-766EC7111EFA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thanks. I've tried playing with this a bit more this morning. The new
> client is now using a registry entry similar to the below but it now ends
> with "NOIDMIF Directory" instead of just "NOIDMIF".
>
> I created a new registry entry with just "NOIDMIF" and the new path, to
try
> and fool it. but still no luck. It doesn't seem to look anywhere but the
> old default "%win%\ms\sms\noidmifs"... I put the .xnf there and it works
> again. Sadly it still wrote the resulting .MIF to the old directory as
> well...
>
> Any contacts that may have access to the code for this program???
(PLEASE!!)
> It's pretty simple hopefully with just a couple coding changes it'd
> probably start working again
>
> My other option would be to set up a script to copy files from the old
> folder to the new one on a regular basis from each client. Not pretty,
but
> an option
>
> Thanks again for any help in advance!
>
> "Joseph Calabig [MSFT]" wrote:
>
> > I'm not familiar with the tool at all. But, I read in the old SMS 2.0
doc
> >
(http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/sms/2/all/reskit/en-us/par
t4/smc07.mspx
> > search for MIFWIN)
> > that it checks the registry key \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE \Microsoft
> > \SMS \Client\Configuration\Client Properties\NOIDMIF to find the folder.
> > I think the advanced clients still use this key so it should still work.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> > --
> > Thanks,
> > Joseph Calabig
> >
> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
> >
> > "Casey Moore" <CaseyMoore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:D22EACC4-5D14-437A-8C9C-CF154DC57157@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > In the past I've used the MifWin tool to create a form to generate
> > > NoIDMifs
> > > at each client to put custom information into the SMS database. Since
the
> > > new SMS folder location has changed I'm assuming this tool no longer
> > > works.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any experience with this or have any suggestions for
> > > putting information like "computer location", "Asset Tag", "Asset
> > > Manager",
> > > and other similar custom fields into the system?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help!
> >
> >
> >
.
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