software-inventory

Looking for pragmatic CMDB solution

I need a solution to catalog a number of applications in our company (more than 100 less than 1000). Right now we are using a spreadsheet and for each app we fill in name, short description, contact person and maintainer (internal or vendor). The puspose is to use this list for IT planning and incident management (impact estimation, et...

Duplicate entries in uninstall registry key when compiling list of installed software

I'm trying to compile a list of installed software on a workstation. After some research I settled on using the information from the following registry key to compile the list. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall It has been a good source and it also lists items that are not listed using Win32_Produ...