Editing Configuration.MOF For Network Printers/Mapped Drives SCCM 2012?

Question is in Configuration Manager 2007 I would edit the SMS Def MOF file and then run Datashift.vbs on all the clients to add a WMI class for mapped drives for inventory. So most of my clients that I upgraded to 2012 already have that class added
to WMI. I just need to figure out what I need to do on the new server and Configuration.MOF (since SMS Def is missing in 2012) to tell it to collect the newly added classes during hardware inventory. I see that you can click on Set Classes in the client settings
but I don't see where you can check mapped drives or network printers there.

There is no out-of-box solution to handle this task.
But try this. This has worked for us really well. We've got 22000 machines inventoried.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/c08c393d-1ea4-4f6b-8f07-affc0f743193/network-printer-inventory-in-system-centre-configuration-manger-sccm-2012?forum=configmanagergeneral#c08c393d-1ea4-4f6b-8f07-affc0f743193

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