Full Hardware Inventory SCCM Client (Powershell)

Introduction

This is a follow-up post to Full Hardware Inventory SCCM Client (How-to), where you’ll achieve the same as posted here, but using graphical tools.

Run the SCCM Full Hardware Inventory

Deleting the WMI instance

To achieve the same result as in the aforementioned post, using powershell, execute the following (all in one line):

Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\ccm\invagt -Class inventoryactionstatus | Where-Object {$_.inventoryactionid -eq "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001}"} | Remove-WmiObject

and then the following, to

force a new hardware inventory

Invoke-WMIMethod -Namespace root\ccm -Class SMS_CLIENT -Name TriggerSchedule "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001}"

Pay attention to the “InventoryAgent.log” log file:

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