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STHN
Level 5
12 years ago

How does it work: Deployment Scanner

Hi folks! Does anyone have a clue, how exactly deployment scanner findy out what has been installed on a system? I'm asking because according to DS results neither IIS nor EV are installed on a E...
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Windows Server (2003-2008)
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    JesusWept3
    12 years ago

    Typically outlook versions and stuff like that are pulled from registry
    SQL stuff tends to be direct queries on SQL Server itself
    there are also some WMI calls as well, but its typically registry for the most part, so if you have this issue again, look at running a procmon.

    It could also be that UAC is blocking the account, and you might want to run the DS with elevated permissions (i.e Run As Administrator), especially if it starts looking at the \SOFTWARE\ registry key as UAC will start to use Virtualized registry paths which really can mess things up

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JesusWept3
Level 6
12 years ago

Typically outlook versions and stuff like that are pulled from registry
SQL stuff tends to be direct queries on SQL Server itself
there are also some WMI calls as well, but its typically registry for the most part, so if you have this issue again, look at running a procmon.

It could also be that UAC is blocking the account, and you might want to run the DS with elevated permissions (i.e Run As Administrator), especially if it starts looking at the \SOFTWARE\ registry key as UAC will start to use Virtualized registry paths which really can mess things up