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Proposed AnswerLooking to see if there is a way to pull a history of hardware plugged into a PC

  • Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:56 PMPeter M. Smith Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    To be specific I am not looking for the history of hardware inventories, I can pull those up in Resource Explorer for individual workstations. What I am looking for is to see if there is a way to pull a list of hardware that has been plugged into a PC, in this case USB drives.

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  • Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:23 PMSherry KissingerMVP, ModeratorUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    That would be a qualified "maybe".

    If in your sms_def.mof, you have the win32_USBDevice set to TRUE, you have a running chance to see (within reason) changes on a particular box for v_gs_USB_Device vs. v_hs_USB_Device.

    The other qualifier is that Hardware Inventory doesn't occur every time a USB device is plugged in or unplugged.  So, for example, if I plug in a USB drive for 10 minutes every day, if my Hardware Inventory on that box doesn't happen to occur during those specific 10 minutes, I'll not have any history of that device being plugged in.
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  • Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:39 AMEric Zhang - MSFTMSFTUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    As this thread has been quiet for a while, we assume that the issue has been resolved. At this time, we will mark it as ‘Answered’ as the previous steps should be helpful for many similar scenarios.

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