SMS: MIF File Renamer - Mifname.exe

SUMMARY

Mifname.exe, which is available in the Microsoft BackOffice Resource Kit, gives Microsoft Systems Management Server version 1.0 and 1.1 MIF files new file name extensions based on their content. The Systems Management Server version 1.2 Dataloader is multithreaded for different types of MIF files. The different types are determined by the extensions on the MIF files. However, Systems Management Server versions 1.0 and 1.1 make no distinction among different types of MIF files (all have a .mif extension). Therefore, MIF files being passed up a hierarchy from a 1.0 or 1.1 site to a 1.2 site cannot take advantage of the 1.2 Dataloader's multithreaded attributes.

MIFNAME solves this by scanning the current directory (which should be \Sms\Site.srv\Dataload.box\Deltamif.col) and changing MIF file name extensions according to their content. MIFNAME performs this task at intervals that are specified on the command line.

cd \sms\site.srv\dataload.box\deltamif.col
mifname  [sleep_time]