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Inboxes - Automatic or do I need to deal with the files in them?
HI, We have recently escaped a hardware failure by migrating and restoring onto new hardware. My question is regarding all the inboxes, particularly things like "Corrupt" and "Badmifs." I've t...
PaulKlerkx Quick answer: some of the inboxes may need manual cleanup every now and then, some don't. It's all very much undocumented, so we don't encourage people to do this on their own.
Having said that, you can leave the auth\dataldr.box\BADMIFS folder (and its subfolders) as well as the sinv.box\BADSinv folder alone. The associated components (the SMS_INVENTORY_DATA_LOADER and the SMS_SOFTWARE_INVENTORY_PROCESSOR respectively) delete files that are older than 14 days from these folders automatically. This can be observed in their log files (dataldr.log and sinvproc.log, respectively).
As for the corrupt state message files in the auth\statesys.box\corrupt folder: you can always try processing them again by moving (NOT copying!) them to the auth\statesys.box\incoming folder. Worst case is they end up in the corrupt folder again. If that's the case, you might as well delete them, because then they will most likely never get processed successfully.
@update to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\inboxes\auth\statesys.box\corrupt (we have 93 so far)
we are now at 148 corrupt smx files. the numbers per day are significantly lower, but the files don't seem to be getting removed. still haven't identified what we are supposed to do here.
