Suppress Health Check Disk Space For Drive on Deployment Target

[stuart.wells]

Hi

I have seen similar questions in “Legacy” posts, but this doesn’t seem to have been addressed - or at least I cant find out how to do it. It doesn’t seem to be covered in Machine Policies.

The Problem: I have a machine that has multiple drives, and some of them are small and not involved in auto deployment, however the Health Check checks the space on every drive on a Machine and reports it as being low on space. This means every single run of the Health Check appears to have warnings - I never get a clean one.

What I’d like to be able to do is provide a hint within a Machine settings to ‘ignore’ the “D” drive or similar. That way I can prevent these unnecessary reports. There could be other more complex solutions…but this is the simplest one I think that would solve my issue.

[paul.calvert]

Hi Stuart,

Thanks for getting in touch!

My initial thought on this would be to amend the script being used by the machine policy to exclude the non-essential drives.
For example, you could amend the initial try statement to target a specific drive letter, or exclude others.
e.g. this will only check the C: drive

$freeDiskSpaceThreshold = 5GB

Try {
	Get-WmiObject win32_LogicalDisk -ErrorAction Stop  | ? { ($_.DriveType -eq 3) -and ($_.FreeSpace -ne $null) -and ($_.DeviceID -eq "C:")}  |  % { CheckDriveCapacity @{Name =$_.DeviceId; FreeSpace=$_.FreeSpace} }
} Catch [System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException] {
	Get-WmiObject win32_Volume | ? { ($_.DriveType -eq 3) -and ($_.FreeSpace -ne $null) -and ($_.DriveLetter -ne $null)} | % { CheckDriveCapacity @{Name =$_.DriveLetter; FreeSpace=$_.FreeSpace} }
	Get-WmiObject Win32_MappedLogicalDisk | ? { ($_.FreeSpace -ne $null) -and ($_.DeviceId -ne $null)} | % { CheckDriveCapacity @{Name =$_.DeviceId; FreeSpace=$_.FreeSpace} }	
}

I hope this helps, please let me know if you have any further questions.

Regards,
Paul