How can I use PDQ inventory to detect installed shared printers and registry keys

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  Luke Nichols

  March 07, 2022 14:37

  Adrian,

  If the printers are user-defined printers (e.g. pushed by a group policy preference) then PDQ may not see them since they're mapped as each individual user. You may be able to enumerate the printers using a PDQ Inventory tool similar to mine here:

  printui.exe /ge

  By default most registry keys are not scanned by PDQ Inventory. You will have to add the registry keys to one of your scan profiles or create a new scan profile to check for those keys.

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  Adrian Yong

  March 10, 2022 07:28

  How do I scan for a particular key ??

  "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Endpoint Backup" "RecoveryMediaUpdateRequired" (null value)

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  Luke Nichols

  March 11, 2022 13:34

  How do I scan for a particular key?

  1. Computer > Scan Profiles
  2. Either edit a current scan profile or create a new one
  3. If there is already a Registry scanner listed, edit it. If there is not, click Add on the right side to add a scanner.
  4. If the "Hive" field at the top if not already set to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, set it to that. If you are editing a current scanner and the hive is set to something different then close the scanner and create a new registry scanner that looks at the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive.
  5. Add patterns via the "Include Pattern(s)" field. For your example you would put this:
     SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Endpoint Backup\RecoveryMediaUpdateRequired
  6. Please note that quotation marks are not required.
  7. Save and exit the scanner and the scan profile then scan a computer with that scan profile.

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  Adrian Yong

  March 12, 2022 09:24

  Thanks

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