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Filtering for Inventory to detect if Application was installed using msi or exe

rewell.dangoy

April 29, 2021 23:12

Hi,

I was wondering whether it is possible to use PDQ Inventory to filter and grab a list of application (teamviewer) installed manually through .exe or through PDQ (used an msi file).

Is it possible to filter and check which devices got installed using the exe installer and which one got installed using the msi installer? If so, what filters are to be used when creating a dynamic collection?

Thanks!

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Grant Gischer
May 03, 2021 16:37

It appears most (all?) software installed via MSI, in the Applications list, the "Uninstall" field will start with MsiExec.

So a filter for non MSI ones could look like this:

And this does appear to work specifically for Teamviewer.

Our MSI installed ones uninstall fields start with MsiExec and the EXE installed ones are "C:\Program Files (x86)\TeamViewer\uninstall.exe"

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