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Optical Drive hunting

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Christopher Dashiells

We have lost a couple CDs during imaging and deployment and would like to run a report through PDQ inventory for them instead of touching each and every physical computer.  Is this possible?

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    Stephen Valdinger
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    (Get-WMIObject Win32_CDROMDrive -Property *).MediaLoaded

     

    That'll return False if there is no disk, and true if there is one.

    Select your targets, run a remote command, check the output. Those True will be your culprits.

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    Christopher Dashiells

    unfortunately it didnt work.  

    Error:

    Return Code: 1

    .MediaLoaded was unexpected at this time. 

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    Stephen Valdinger

    Interesting. It's working across my labs. Of course, I'm using Powershell 5.0 and Windows 10 1703. 

     

    What OS and PS Version are you using?

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    Christopher Dashiells

    I didn't select PS.  However after doing so it throws an error that everything is on PS 2.0.  ill need to update that across the board first and try it again. 

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    Good news! Now you can scan for this with Inventory 15 Beta 1's WMI scanner.

    https://support.pdq.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003468752-Inventory-WMI-Scanner-Usage-Examples#cd

    https://documentation.pdq.com/PDQInventory/15.0.1.0/wmi-scanner.htm

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