Monday 24 June 2013

SCCM: Reports under “Software - Companies and Products” & “Software - Files” categories are blank

Do you notice that reports mention in title are show blank in SCCM 2012 ? Here I would like to share with you the finding.

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In SCCM 2012, Report under ‘Software – Companies and Products’ & ‘Software – Files’ categories are to collect inventory by file types/extension from client machine. There is no file types configured by default. In order to retrieve the inventory for the reports above, please follow the steps below :

1. Open the Configuration Manager Console, Select Administration, Client Settings.

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2. Select on Software Inventory and click on Set Types button.

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3. Click on the star button highlight in RED.

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4. Enter file type : *.exe

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5. Now take a coffee break and waiting for inventory collection.

Here are the sample reports after inventory completed.

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