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Bad Incremental Software Inventory after changing to a new Site server on Windows 2000

We changed the SMS Server from 2.0.3 on NT to 2.0.5 on Windows 2000 in December with a new site name. The first (full) software inventory worked well on all clients but the following incremental software inventory update fails for 75% of the clients.

All of these *.SID files are in "...\SMS\inboxes\sinv.box\BADSinv\*.sid". The SMS_INVENTORY_DATA_LOADER shows errors and the explanation mentions a "fail to process the delta MIF file". "Possible cause: The file is corrupt or contains bad syntax."

The SMS_SOFTWARE_INVENTORY_PROCESSOR shows errors too.

Possible cause: The file attempted to update inventory information in the SMS site database that does not already exist, or the file contains invalid syntax.

Contributed By: Richard Threlkeld [MVP SMS]
Sounds like the clients are out of sync and sending Delta's back to the SMS site server. Did you do a site recovery or move clients over to a new site because this normally happens and you need to issue a client resync for HINV and SINV after that.

You can use the following registry key in an SMS package to trigger a full re-sync:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325585

Or you can use cli_inv.ipf from the SMS 2.0 Recovery Wizard to create a package to distribute for your site code.