WQL Queries - List of computers with a specific file

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List of computers with a specific file

Create a list of computers that is based on a file found during Software Inventory

Code

select SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.Name, SMS_G_System_SoftwareFile.FilePath, SMS_G_System_SoftwareFile.CreationDate, SMS_G_System_SoftwareFile.FileDescription, SMS_R_System.ResourceType, SMS_R_System.ResourceId from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM on SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId inner join SMS_G_System_SoftwareFile on SMS_G_System_SoftwareFile.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_G_System_SoftwareFile.FileName = "test.pdf"

Documentation

First you will need to make sure that turn on the file inventory, not File collection (we don't want to copy all those files into ConfigMgr). Be sure to exclude the Windows directory at the least. Once a SW inventory has run you will be able to pull this informaiton. Depending on the state of your machines it might take a while before all have run the check. Be aware that this could decrease the performance of the system if this is the first run of the search. Now that we have all the information in ConfigMgr we need. This query should be created on the Query Node because it will not create a collection. Created by Matthew Hudson --------------------------------