HTA Projects ~ The Software Inventory Tool

The Software Inventory Tool was designed to be used at different ING locations by IBM for desktop refreshes. The Tool either locally or remotely gets a computer's Add/Remove listing built around a script written by Bill James with credit given to Torgeir Bakken. Software, included on ING's base image, such as Microsoft Office, RightFax, WinZip and many others, and Updates are removed from the listing and output to a formatted Excel document.

Using the Software Inventory Tool

The only essential field is the Computer name and WMI depends on that name to be correct. The other fields are required, but it doesn't really matter what you enter.

Get local
This is the mode to use when you're physically sitting at the computer. Run the script using the "Run as" if the user's permissions won't allow it. There are times when the script will fail to run remotely for whatever reason. If you can remote into the computer, using Dameware or other Remote Desktop utilities, you can launch and run the script locally.

Get remote
Use this mode to get the software listing of a computer on the network. You must have the permissions to connect to other computers. If you can browse a computer by entering \\computername\c$ in the Run, the script should work. If the script fails to connect to a firewalled laptop, try to use the Get local option.

Output to Excel

Print options

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