Thank you so much Sherry! Thanks, Renae
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sherry Kissinger Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2018 1:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mssms] Inventory Mapped Drives There isn't a 'better way' I'm aware of, but there are some caveats, where if I were tasked to do something like that, here's how I would approach it. There's really three "things" you need to do to make this all work. 1) Running as a package/program with SYSTEM rights, you'd want to make up your own custom WMI namespace likely in root (i.e., not in root cimv2), and then grant domain users to write to that . Here's someone's example of how they did that. They claimed it worked, but I haven't tested it: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/43f42c19-b4cf-424a-8c95-22cbf791c056/grant-write-permissions-for-domain-users-on-custom-wmi-namespace?forum=ITCG 2) Using the vbscript sample from your examples above, remember to change this line: localNamespace.name = CUSTOM_NAMESPACE to be the custom namespace you created in #1. This vbscript has to be run "only when a user is logged in" and "with user credentials". If it were me... I'd have 1 advertisement. You can have 1 package with both scripts, and two programs. the vbscript is what you advertise; but the program for the vbscript has "run another program first", and it only has to run once per machine. 3) once you've tested #1 and #2 as a deployed advertisement and you see the stuff you want to see in root\yourCustomNamespace, then you can super easily just go into Client Settings, Default client properties, hardware inventory, and "Add..." the Root\YourCustomNamespace , the mappeddrives stuff--and any boxes which have run the advert (and had something to say) will start reporting. On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 9:14 PM, Mead, Renae (DTMB) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: We have a need to inventory mapped network drives and was looking for some current documentation on how to achieve this. Is this the most recent and valid information out there, or does someone else have a better way? We are on Current Branch 1706. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/breben/2013/08/26/inventory-mapped-drives-in-configmgr-2012/ https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/configurationmgr/2008/12/18/configmgr-2007-how-to-inventory-mapped-drives/ Thanks, Renae -- Thank you, Sherry Kissinger My Parameters: Standardize. Simplify. Automate Blog: http://mnscug.org/blogs/sherry-kissinger
