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Whilst working with Software Delivery in the SMP I needed some information that was only available in the XML of the Policy itself.

There are Web Services to retrieve the Policy as XML and save it to file but this is a lot of overhead.

Get Delivery Items Component
Class: Altiris7.WebServices.SoftwareDeliveryPolicyManagement.GetDeliveryItemsComponent
Library: Symantec.Components.Generated7.Altiris.ASDK.dll

PolicyGuid

Get Delivery Item Setting Component
Class: Altiris7.WebServices.SoftwareDeliveryPolicyManagement.GetDeliveryItemSettingComponent
Library: Symantec.Components.Generated7.Altiris.ASDK.dll

PolicyGuid
[DeliveryItems_SoftwareResource[first].Guid]
settingName = Package

Instead we can grab it in SQL, create a new Stored Procedure.

spPRT_PolicySoftwareTaskGuid

Get the TaskGuid against a Software Policy ('TaskDeliveryItem')

TaskDeliveryItem SoftwareComponent TaskGuid.sql

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XML

<item>
  ..
  <deliveryItems>
    <SoftwareDeliveryItem guid="GUID">
      ..
      <SoftwareComponent itemGuid="GUID" include="True" useOverrides="False">
      ..
    </SoftwareDeliveryItem>
    ..
  </deliveryItems>
  ..
</item>

Or a piece of Software 'SoftwareDeliveryItem'

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XML

<item>
  ..
  <deliveryItems>
    <TaskDeliveryItem guid="GUID">
      ..
      <SoftwareComponent itemGuid="GUID" include="True" useOverrides="False">
      ..
    </TaskDeliveryItem>
    ..
  </deliveryItems>
  ..
</item>

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If you want more information about the value method and parsing XML in SQL check out the MS Article:

value() Method (xml Data Type)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/xml/value-method-xml-data-type

(https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178030.aspx)

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