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  • Wednesday, July 22, 2009 1:34 PMJRSCE Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    I need to inventory my Telephones (no IP, stand-alone devices). So I think use SCCM to do this. My idea was:
     
    Choose on desktop machine (with SCCM client installed)
    Add in this desktop one MIF file to each Telephone device
    On this MIF files I will add some information about each device
    Use SCCM primary site only to enable MIF collection to this desktop (to don't enable MIF for my all sites)
    And by this way I will have in SCCM DB my stand-alone devices thta SCCM don't known.
     
    What's you guys think about this? any idea? I need to use IDMIF or NOIDMIF to do this?
     

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  • Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:44 PMJason SandysMVPUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    Depends. Data collected with NOIDMIF files is automatically associated with the client that collected it. IDMIF files are for data not associated with a client.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc142983.aspx

    Jason | http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jsandys | http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/jsandys/default.aspx | Twitter @JasonSandys
     

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  • Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:44 PMJason SandysMVPUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    Depends. Data collected with NOIDMIF files is automatically associated with the client that collected it. IDMIF files are for data not associated with a client.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc142983.aspx

    Jason | http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jsandys | http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/jsandys/default.aspx | Twitter @JasonSandys
     
  • Wednesday, July 22, 2009 3:11 PMSherry KissingerMVP, ModeratorUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    From SMS2003, but still applies:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc180618.aspx

    In Rod Kruetzfeld's book "Pro SMS 2003", Chapter 9, pages 204-205, he explains them really well, too.

    My personal opinion:  don't be the evil admin, who the admin after you has to clean up after.  Maybe it's unreasonable of me to say this, but that's how I feel about idmif/noidmif files.  Nightmare cleanup when you no longer want/need them.
    Standardize. Simplify. Automate.