Is there a way to exclude those temp folders with random letters and numbers from a USMT capture?
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011 7:31 PM
You guys know what I'm talking about right? Every time Windows update runs it extracts updates to some temp folder comprised of a bunch of random letters and numbers to the root of the drive with the most free space. They look something like this:
"3484446799878760c8770aaa6c"
They are becoming problematic as they are getting captured by USMT and migrated during a fresh OS deployment. Is there a scanstate/loadstate switch switch I can use or some way I can tweak my XML templates to exclude these folders?
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011 11:04 PM
I have only seen a few of these folders being left over, especially the msxml updates. I have used scripts to delete them after the Windows Update Action is completed. Then they won't be included. You can also delete them prior to running the USMT capture.
/ Johan
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011 11:19 PM
You have a link to your cleanup script?I have only seen a few of these folders being left over, especially the msxml updates. I have used scripts to delete them after the Windows Update Action is completed. Then they won't be included. You can also delete them prior to running the USMT capture.
/ Johan
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Thursday, January 27, 2011 12:06 AM
Not that one, but I was using the below templates... and simple adding a few lines to check for folders with more than 24 characters, having alphanumeric characters and in the xml update case a specific file that was leftover in the folder. I had also to reset permissions on the folder before I could have the script deleting it.
MMS 2008 and TechEd 2008 North America Sample Files
http://www.deployvista.com/Blog/tabid/70/EntryID/58/language/en-US/Default.aspx/ Johan
- Marked As Answer by ZeusABJ Monday, February 07, 2011 5:13 PM
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Thursday, January 27, 2011 4:27 AM
Not that one, but I was using the below templates... and simple adding a few lines to check for folders with more than 24 characters, having alphanumeric characters and in the xml update case a specific file that was leftover in the folder. I had also to reset permissions on the folder before I could have the script deleting it.
MMS 2008 and TechEd 2008 North America Sample Files
http://www.deployvista.com/Blog/tabid/70/EntryID/58/language/en-US/Default.aspx/ Johan
Wow, thats like a really clever solution. I never thought to make a script to check for a 24 alphanumeric character folder.... I just assumed something like that would backfire. I guess without the check for that specific file leftover though it could right? I'll check out your link.
Thanks Johan.
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Monday, February 11, 2013 3:29 PMAny chance those scripts were saved elsewhere? That site seems to have gone the way of the dodo.
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Monday, February 11, 2013 5:26 PM
Any chance those scripts were saved elsewhere? That site seems to have gone the way of the dodo.
I wound up not using them, so no help here, sorry! -
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 4:00 PMZeus did you find a better method? I'm trying out an XP to Win7 refresh and stuck with all these old folders on the new machines.
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Thursday, March 07, 2013 4:41 PMHey Josh J,
Unfortunately no! Turns out its really hard to "check" for a folder with a name that is random (LOL)!!! I suppose I was hoping for a bit much when I created this thread, but you never know these things unless you ask right? I've just instructed my helpdesk team to delete those folders manually prior to running USMT. -
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 12:19 PM
I've been trying to figure this out for the last day or so and I think I'll be going with the "Delete all folders unless the ones I specify" method. Now I just need to script it.
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