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APPENDIX EExtending Hardware Inventory

IN THIS APPENDIX

How to Extend Hardware Inventory

Example of Extending Inventory

System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr)’s hardware inventory component queries Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) on each ConfigMgr managed client to gather data about that device. What is queried depends on the classes that are enabled; these are specified using client settings. Chapter 3, “Looking Inside Configuration Manager,” discusses WMI and how ConfigMgr interacts with it.

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