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SMS Query Needed for Software Usage
I need to find a SMS query that will tell me when the last time users opened Microsoft Project. Basically we are over our licensing on the product and need to be able to run a query to tell us the last time users actually opened the program so we can remove it from users who are not using the program with any frequency. I know windows can tell if it has been used recently but I do not know exactly how to access this information using an SMS query.
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Is there not a way to do it without software meetinger being on? I dont know the reason but we do not have it on globally. If I could just run one query that is all I need.
The SMS Inventory Client is only doing a inventory on the machine for HW/SW. It doesn't monitor start and stop on programs.
You have to active the software meetering client agent.
You have to active the software meetering client agent.
ASKER
Since the Software metering is a hog on the network we do not want it on but couldnt a query be written to just look at whichever part of the registry is holding the necessary information. If you look at Add\Remove programs you get a frequency of use message next to the button you use to remove the software so somewhere burried in the registry is that information and somehow a query must be able to spill it for me.
Software Metering is the best way to it.
It is not really a big hog on the network, the metering data is stored on the local machine until the next hardware/software scan. We have this set on a weekly cycle. It works quite well
It is not really a big hog on the network, the metering data is stored on the local machine until the next hardware/software scan. We have this set on a weekly cycle. It works quite well
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Software Meetering is designed to what you want to do, licens harvesting/reuse of licenses.