Controlling Software Inventory (skpswi.dat)

Sometimes you want to exclude certain folders or drives from beeing scanned to have a clean Inventory, an example you may not want to scan a server with large volues for data like home directories or the IT department Install library. This causes both load on the server /client having the drive and it causes you to get this information into the database and you need to handle it in your reports.

Simply do like this

• Create a file named skpswi.dat
• Add the attribute hidden
• Put it in the folder/drive you would like to exclude from Software Inventory

More is to be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc180976.aspx