Sometimes you need your inventory to collect whatever is starting with Windows. How can you get it ?

This article shows a script that can get it using software deployment. There are ways of inserting it the inventory process, and for more information on that, refer to the article on "Inventory Extensions".

To get this feature working, you will need to schedule the runvbs.bat in your software deployment tasks with the other two files (startup.vbs and send.bat) as attachments.

The runvbs.bat is used onlly to run startup.vbs.

Startup.vbs is a script that runs a full inventory scan on the device, saving the result into a SCN file. Than, it opens the scn file and populates the startup programs and calls send.bat, that sends the scn file to the core server. Based on Denny Cannon's EnumerateGrp.vbs

The time in line 55 may need to be changed in order to allow enough time for your devices do a full inventory scan.

Good luck !

Luiz Faro
LANDesk SE, Brazil