Optical Drive hunting

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Christopher Dashiells

• November 27, 2017 15:27

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

  • November 27, 2017 15:33
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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

  • November 27, 2017 17:48

  unfortunately it didnt work.  

  Error:

  Return Code: 1

  .MediaLoaded was unexpected at this time. 

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  Stephen Valdinger

  • November 27, 2017 18:04

  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

  • November 27, 2017 18:20

  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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  Colby Bouma

  • December 28, 2017 23:40

  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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