NOTE: It is not necessary the Background Service credentials have local admin privileges on target machines, but they are required to have local admin privileges on the PDQ console machines regardless whether the consoles are running in Central Server Mode or Local Mode. In the above example, the PDQ Inventory Background Service (called Tester ) runs under the local user account Tester on the PDQ Server LT. These credentials were supplied when PDQ Inventory was first run.

The first set of credentials are the Background Service credentials, located in Options > Background Service. They can be the same credentials or different depending on the needs of your environment, and the article PDQ Credentials Explained covers these in more detail. PDQ Inventory utilizes three sets of credentials. A few of these Scanners, Files & Directories, PowerShell, Registry, and WMI provide the ability to customize queries in order to scan for specific data that the hard-coded Scanners do not scan for. These Scanners are responsible for collecting and returning data to PDQ Inventory that can then be utilized in the creation of reports/collections.

Scan Profiles will need to be created/selected to run against target machines, and a single Scan Profile may contain any number of individual Scanners.

This can be helpful in troubleshooting scanning issues. You wish to understand how PDQ Inventory scans target machines.

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