Hardware Inventory

The Hardware Inventory section, enabled by default, primarily controls the interval on which hardware inventory is collected. The default of seven days is usually too long and it is recommended to change the schedule to once per day.

In addition, in this section additional hardware inventory classes can be configured to be collected. This includes Registry values for other important information, which previously required modifying text files directly. Embedding a graphical user interface (GUI) to do this in Configuration Manager 2012 is a very welcome enhancement.

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