Hello All, I have a Single Tier SCCM 2007 Hierarchy with approx 2000 SCCM Client machines. In my complete hierarchy I have approx 15% machines below 1 GB of Hard Disk Space, because of which Software Deployment/Distributions are failing. Kindly let me know a mechanism which can be used to increase the Disk Space on machines below 1 GB of Space using Software distribution in Completely Silent Mode

Hi,If you have a lot of used space in the ccm cache, then you can use the right click tools, configmgr client center or a script to empty the cache which will free some space on the clients.Kent Agerlund | http://scug.dk/members/Agerlund/default.aspx | The Danish community for System Center products

Hello kent, thhisis not the case as SCCM is newly setup.

You need to know what can be deleted on the clients in order to free up hd space. One place to start could be running sfc.exe /purgecache this will remove files from the dllcache. However those files might be needed at a later time (for some reason). 1) First you need to find the files that can be deleted2) Then you can create a program in Configmgr that delete the files for you eg. sfc.exe /purgecacheKent Agerlund | http://scug.dk/members/Agerlund/default.aspx | The Danish community for System Center products

can i use disk cleanup in completely silent mode or any other tool?

The older package will be deleted if space required. More info:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/library/bb892803.aspxHTHJie-Feng Ren - MSFT

As I said earlier, its a new SCCM setup and no package has been deployed. But still I can find 10-15% machines having less than 1 GB of free disk space.

its a new SCCM setup and no package has been deployed. But still I can find 10-15% machines having less than 1 GB of free disk space. So it's not caused by ConfigMgr? Nobody here in the forums can tell you which files to delete, because we don't know why your disks are filled up. You have to find files that are no longer needed and delete them (using a custom script that could be executed by ConfigMgr).

Thats what I am looking for. Any custom script or disk cleanup utility or any utility in completely silent mode.

You cannot create the script until you know which files to delete. You might find it helpfull to check the scripting pages of technet - http://technet.microsoft.com/da-dk/scriptcenter/default(en-us).aspxKent Agerlund | http://scug.dk/members/Agerlund/default.aspx | The Danish community for System Center products

Download ccleaner run it in silent mode against all your pcs that should free up diskspace this is a utility like disk cleanup but does more. There is also an article here on running disk cleanup silently http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t86665.html

WEll depending on how big the HD is you might get some back if you force the disk clean up.Here is a reg file to send down and how to force remote Disk Clean uphttp://sms-hints-tricks.blogspot.com/2007/03/disk-cleanup.htmlYou could also force a remote Defrag either through GPO, login script, or SCCM.PStools has a program to help you find profiles that haven't been accessed in x days. From that you could then manually or "automagically" send a command down to delete those old profiles.http://www.sccm-tools.com http://sms-hints-tricks.blogspot.com

Thanks for the information. When i run cleanmgr, i get screen pop up with Cancel option enabled. Can i supress that dialog. I want to run it in completely silent mode so that users are unaware of the activity. Also, i downloaded cccleaner. But I am not able to find any swicth to run it in completeley silent mode.

I run it with "hidden" so the users never see the dialog box.http://www.sccm-tools.com http://sms-hints-tricks.blogspot.com

Thanks all for the replies. I am trying to run follwoing command:cleanmgr.exe /sagerun:nn can be anything between 0 to 65,356 as per the articles i saw on internet.What should I keep value of n so that all files under disk cleanup settings option(which is prompted during disk cleanup) are deleted. This will help me freeing mcuh more disk space.

/sagerun:somenumber will only know what to do if you have setup a /sageset:somenumber on the computer previously, to record those preferences.Well... what I did was run the /sageset:, and did a b4 and after quick'n'dirty registry recording snapshot. Then just figured out which regkeys needed to be set. Then I sent out 1 advertisements, with two programs, with run another program first (fyi, this was SMS2003, before Task Sequences, you might want to use a TS instead w/ConfigMgr). The first program imported the regkeys. The 2nd program ran cleanmgr.exe /sagerun:somenumberStandardize. Simplify. Automate.

You need to get a better picture of your client PCs. Are they all XP machines? Create a spreadsheet showing machine names, total disk space, and free disk space. You can get this info from SCCM hardware inventory. A fairly fresh machine should have a few GB of O/S files, a few GB of applications, and a few GB of user data (in the profile and/or in other folders). Typically this adds up to say between 4 and 8 GB. If your are working with older machines with small hard drives (say 8 to 10 GB), there's not much you can do. However, if you find that your machines have 80GB hard drives, and 79GB is used up, then you should be able to figure out what's using it all up. Often times I find PCs with thousands of MP3's or movie files (not business related) consuming disk space. In this case, it's easy to find a solution. This is not a matter of running a magic cleanup script to fix the problem. You will need to do some old-fashioned detective work, one machine at a time, to create a picture of what's consuming all the disk space. Once you have all that information, then you can determine whether the solution will be a technical one or a political one.Trying to free up a few tens or hundreds of MB here and there is a waste of your time. In a healthy environment, PCs should have several GB (much more than 1) of free disk space.You may find DELPROF useful if you have users with roaming profiles wandering between machines.Good Luck.Nick.

Thanks Sherry. I want to run cleanmgr in silent mode with no UI. Please let me know step by step command which I can run so taht all options which are available in diskcleanup (Temp files, compressed files, recycyle bin etc..) are cleaned up and I can create maximum possible space with this utility.

Hello ALl,I was able to run disk cleanup silently with the help of following article.http://t3chn1ck.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/scripting-diskcleanupdefrag/