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  • Friday, September 26, 2008 6:52 AMGerry Wong Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Hi,

     

    In additional to local Harddisk drive, will Floppy disk drive, CD/DVD drive, USB removable Hard drive and Network drive be scanned too?

     

     

     

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  • Tuesday, October 07, 2008 6:27 PMWallyMSFT, OwnerUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    When I asked long ago (may have changed over the years) it was only local hard disk drives, not network drives (well I know we still don't inventory network/mapped drives) or anything else.

     

    Unfortunately, I do everything in virtual environments, and VPC does not support USB, so I can't test that. However, I did configure a virtual CD, and it was not scanned. Reported as not a fixed drive, which I assume a USB drive would be treated as well.

     

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  • Friday, September 26, 2008 7:39 AMTorsten [MVP]MVPUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Why don't you just plug in an USB harddrive and kick off a software inventory cycle? InventoryAgent.log will tell you what is scanned (network drives and floppy disks won't).

     

     
  • Tuesday, October 07, 2008 6:27 PMWallyMSFT, OwnerUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    When I asked long ago (may have changed over the years) it was only local hard disk drives, not network drives (well I know we still don't inventory network/mapped drives) or anything else.

     

    Unfortunately, I do everything in virtual environments, and VPC does not support USB, so I can't test that. However, I did configure a virtual CD, and it was not scanned. Reported as not a fixed drive, which I assume a USB drive would be treated as well.

     
  • Tuesday, October 07, 2008 9:34 PMYellowRockyGuy Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    My take on this would be how the client dev code was written.

     

    Look at vbscript for example. Using a WMI connection, Win32_LogicalDisk sees a USB drive in a similar way but with important exceptions like MediaType, Description, etc...

     

    If the dev code for the client is written to examine "Local Fixed Disk" then USB would not be scanned. USB (in WMI terms) is seen as Removable Disk. CD-ROM as CD-ROM Disc and so on. (Funny how CD is seen as DISC and USB is seen as DISK. I guess CD is seen as optical...). Even a Daemon generated virtual drive is seen as a CD-ROM Disc.

     

    Anyway, although not tested on my end, I would go with a "NO" on USB scanning.

     

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  • Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:47 PMPeter M. Smith Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    I plugged a USB drive in and kicked off the Hardware Inventory Cycle. The drive shows up in the Disk Drive section, the Interface Type is "USB", and the Media Type is "Removable media other than floppy".