USB Devices?

[dteague]

Is there an easy way too determine what USB devices have been hooked up to a computer? We have a policy against USB drives, and I want to know what machines have had one inserted, so I can "Remind" some folks of our policy, or at least figure out their business reason for using them.

[dteague]

Thanks... While that shows some of the USB sticks out there, it does not show me all of them like USBdeview does. I'm concerned if a USB device has ever been in a computer, not just if 1 was in there when a scan was done.

[Hemoco]

The type you need is "2"

[dteague]

I have checked that table, and it shows Floppys, Actually HDs, Some Network drives and CD-Roms (Type 2,3,4,5)... Nothing on removable memory sticks.

[Hemoco]

You might want to check "tbldiskdrives" field "drivetype"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394173%28VS.85%29.aspx

[dteague]

Yeah, I am familiar with that tool, just was wanting something that would give me it all at once.

I've tried using that tool and piping it all the machines in a file, but it ends up crashing with I feed it 1000+ machines. I may just have to try less at a time. I just was hoping LanSweeper would keep it in a table someplace.

[rkotvis]

According to this post it should be possible using a custom action with USBDeview (http://nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html😞

http://www.lansweeper.com/forum/yaf_postst505_Usefull-utilities-and-links-for-custom-actions.aspx

I haven't tried this myself, but I suppose the custom action would have to look like this:

\\SERVER_NAME\SHARE_NAME\USBDeview /remote \\{computer}