Mz Computers - SCCM 2012 Application Export issue.

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Application export feature in SCCM 2012 may generate the below

Error: The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The full qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters.

The root cause is limitations in the Windows file I/O APIs.

It ideally depends on the longest path in the Application source.

To get the longest path of the source we need to mounted or we can navigate to the source folder in PowerShell, and run below command

$len=0;dir -r|%{if ($_.FullName.Length -gt $len) {$len=$_.FullName.Length}};$len

For ex: Longest path: 100

Which leaves 155 char for SCCM 2012, as it add few files.

Exporting an Application with source creates 2 folders

1. Application Source i.e. ApplicationName\Content_GUID(36 char)
2. Application Information for SCCM i.e. Package Metadata, Package Scope, additional .XML files

The total path size should be lesser than 255.

PowerShell to export Application in SCCM 2012

Export-CMApplication -Path c:\AppName.zip –Name (LocalizedDisplayName) -IgnoreRelated -OmitContent