Overview
This project was built out of a need to determine a way to detect how applications that are part of a suit of components are installed on a computer. This is needed when conducting software asset management Engagements to determine how detected software was installed. The contents of the start menu for an applications can give provide valuable information as to whether the product was installed with all the components or just some - a factor that contributes to the licensing of various pieces of installed software.
Features¶
- Remote retrieval of a computers start menu items
- Multiple machines can be inventoried across the network using multiple automatic lookups:
- Active Directory
- Specify list of computer names
- Filter only as specific string match to minimize the number of results retrieved.
- convinient CSV produced showing all start menu items per machine.