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Obsolete workstation - 8/16/2008 5:37:47 PM

ggarate

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Hello Friends,

I have SMS's Site, into which they have changed machines of place, have many machines that I have to erase of the Direcory there are machines that have changed name, I need to clean the Site of the duplicated machines, and to leave only the correct ones can someone orientate me on this topic?

Thanks

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RE: Obsolete workstation - 8/16/2008 6:50:00 PM

skissinger

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Check this out. You would be most interested in "Delete Aged Discovery Data" and "Delete Inactive Client Discovery Data and "Delete Obsolete Client Discovery Data".

It's possible you may be re-discovering computer names listed in Active Directory, which no longer exist. You may need to clean Active Directory of obsolete computer names, which by extension would allow the Delete ... tasks mentioned above to delete consistently. One popular free utility is www.joeware.net, "oldcmp" script.

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RE: Obsolete workstation - 8/16/2008 7:04:36 PM

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I already use the tool "oldcmp", but for policy of the company, only I can erase the machines, which it knows really that they do not exist, or the machines that do not enter to the domain, for 120 days.

Certainly, since I touched in one a point, not which of the first paragraph, the query that brings(reports) the installed packages, does not work, queado to 0 can you help me also in this?

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RE: Obsolete workstation - 8/17/2008 5:16:44 AM

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Just so I understand, we're switching topics? Which query isn't working for you? Can you post it, and explain what results you expect to see, but do not get.

Back to the original topic, if you cannot clean Active Directory closer than 120 days, perhaps you might benefit from a 3rd party application, ESD, from www.systemcentertools.com. Alternatively, you could move older machines to an OU within ActiveDirectory, which you deliberately do not target with your discovery agent, or you set permissions on that OU so your server(s) cannot read inside that OU. Sure, you're skirting the 'don't-delete-computers-out-of-AD' for 120 days rule; but with good processes/procedures that workaround *might* be acceptable to everyone.

< Message edited by skissinger -- 8/17/2008 5:24:00 AM >

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RE: Obsolete workstation - 8/17/2008 8:39:56 AM

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In the advertisement status, in the original query it does not report, you scheme all those the package has come, to which he has installed...

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RE: Obsolete workstation - 8/17/2008 2:42:26 PM

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Could you post the query? And what you expect the results to be?

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