With the next Windows 10 release planned for October 17th, I’m actually working on migrating a bunch of Windows 10 devices. Some are Windows 10 v1511, some v1607. Some have been installed using a fresh image and some have been migrated from a previous version. I thought it would be a good idea to inventory those devices to know their installation source (fresh or upgraded). To achieve this, we’ll need to extend our SCCM inventory to grab a custom registry key and then build a query or report to show this information. For this post, I’m using SCCM 1706 but the procedure is the same for SCCM 2012 or later. Windows 10 Fresh vs Upgrade Inventory Information The Windows 10 Upgrade information is located in the device registry in the HKLM\System\Setup\upgrade\downlevelbuildnumber. We need to modify our hardware inventory to gather this value on our Windows 10 devices. I’ll guide you through this process if … Read More
Configure SCCM 2012 to Inventory RAID Controller Drivers
A RAID controller is a device used to manage hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid-state drives (SSDs) in a computer or storage array. It has the ability to access multiple copies of data on multiple physical devices and improve performance with data protection in case of a system failure. We suggest to keep your RAID controller drivers updated to have the latest fixes from the manufacturer. In this post, we will show you how to configure SCCM 2012 to inventory RAID controller drivers to prepare a deployment targeting the affected systems. We will show how to modify SCCM 2012 hardware inventory classes to get this information. RAID Controller Drivers Information You can find RAID controller drivers information in System Information. Launch System Information from msinfo32.exe directly from Run in Start Menu Expand Components / Storage / SCSI In the WMI, the information of RAID controller is in WIN32_SCSIController but it doesn’t include driver version. In this case, you … Read More