SCCM Windows 10 Inventory – Upgrade vs Fresh Install

Benoit LecoursSCCM, WINDOWS 103 Comments

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