Forcing full inventory on OS X (Mac) clients

Is there a way to force a full inventory on the SCCM OS X client?
Best regards
Claus
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You can't. I've tried.
One other thing to be aware of - it caught me out. You cannot inventory USB devices on MAC clients. If you try you will break the client. See here
http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2013/12/16/mac-os-x-10-9-support-for-sc-2012-config-manager-clients.aspx
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