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clearing cache on mass - 8/19/2008 11:03:52 AM

ssumgirl

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Is there a right way to clear caches for machines? Or is it as simple as blwoing aways everything in the cache folder? I am guessing that doing so might result in some advertisement failure, but I am contemplating the possiblity of needing to do this on a collection wide basis for a particular effort, and i am just sort of wondering aloud.

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RE: clearing cache on mass - 8/19/2008 11:16:29 AM

bwoodall

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EDIT: This script works with SMS 2003 and I haven't tested it with SCCM 2007

Copy the text below into notepad and name it clearcache.vbs then create a package and advertise it to a collection. Make sure you run it from the distribution point and not download to the computer. If the computer downloads the script it will fail due to deleting its own self.

on error resume next
dim oUIResManager
dim oCache
dim oCacheElement
dim oCacheElements
set oUIResManager = createobject("UIResource.UIResourceMgr")
if oUIResManager is nothing then
    wscript.echo "Couldn't create Resource Manager - quitting"
    wscript.quit
end if
set oCache=oUIResManager.GetCacheInfo()
if oCache is nothing then
    set oUIResManager=nothing
    wscript.echo "Couldn't get cache info - quitting"
    wscript.quit
end if
set oCacheElements=oCache.GetCacheElements
for each oCacheElement in oCacheElements
oCache.DeleteCacheElement(oCacheElement.CacheElementID)
next
set oCacheElements=nothing
set oUIResManager=nothing
set oCache=nothing

< Message edited by bwoodall -- 8/19/2008 11:18:37 AM >

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RE: clearing cache on mass - 8/27/2008 3:38:17 PM

jbenoit

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I just tried this with ConfigMgr 2007 and the Advertisement reports successfully running the VB script, but the cache is not emptied...

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RE: clearing cache on mass - 8/27/2008 4:31:58 PM

jsandys

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Try the SMS Collection Commander from Roger Zander: http://sourceforge.net/projects/smscollctr/. This is an open source, stand-alone project that uses documented APIs to perform common clients actions on collections of client resources. Works on both ConfigMgr and SMS2003.

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