Software Inventory and Reporting Services Seems Broken..

Some basic info...
Server 2012, SQL 2012, SCCM 2012 R2. All products up to date. Enviornment has been running for about 2 weeks, with all the test clients being brought in a few days after server install.
I went to run the report "Computers with a specific product" two days and when I went to select my product, there were no values, as if the inventory process wasn't working. I verified in client settings and also saw that hardware inventory data
was coming back. I can run any of the hardware related reports and they have data.
I did add a couple inventory classes (Installed Executable & Installed Software) to see if that would help, but it did not. I've forced policy updates and run inventories again, still blank. Looking at InventoryAgent.log, it appears everything looks
good. I see the 4 software classes reporting back.
There is probably something simple that I'm missing, but I can't found out what that is.
Edit: Forgot to post the InventoryAgent.log file... http://pastebin.com/AkTWQurp

This goes back to the basic definitions of what the two different types of inventory actually do. Software Inventory is actually a file inventory and by default in 2012 collects *nothing*. To have it collect information about exe's, you would add *.exe (preferably
scoped to just C:\Program Files and C:\Program Files (X86)) to the software inventory configuration. This enables ConfigMgr to gather data from the PE header of the exe files which in turn is used for the report you called out (and others listed as Software
Inventory).
The question though is do you truly want information about exes or do you actually want information about installed applications? Just because an exe exists does not mean an application is actually installed. That's where Add/Remove programs information
potentially comes in. Information in Add/Remove Programs is *not* collected by Software Inventory though -- as mentioned Soft Inv collect file information. ARP data is collected via WMI by Hardware Inv in ConfigMgr. To get this info, use one of the reports
that lists info from ARP. This is collected and is available by default.
ARP isn't the end all be all either and that's where Asset Intelligence comes in. AI is a layer of intelligence on top of Hardware Inv that collects additional details and adds reports that takes the raw ARP data and combines it with other evidence to give
you better information about "Installed Software". The AI reports are conveniently under the AI folder in the reports. AI is not however enabled by default so you must enable it.
Finally, even AI is not perfect because, as we all know users aren't actually the only bane of our existence but so are vendors who do non-standard things. That's where third-parties like BDNA come in come that provide even better interpretatin of the raw
data collected by ConfigMgr.
Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com

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We are wanting to use the inventory and reports piece to help keep
track of
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every
version that was ever installed it seems. Some of the programs that
show up
are no longer installed or they have the executable but never ran it.
So we
look at it and say user x has this installed when they might not have
it
installed. Is there a way to JUST get what is actually installed? I
have
not used ART or Crystal reports, but I would think they would just
help
organize the information that Zen supplies, so I would think that ZEN
would
have to be able to differentiate between what is installed and what is
no
longer installed, not the report tools. Am I wrong? Will Crystal or
ART be
able to seperate this info, or is there anything else that will help
without having to use a totally different inventory program. Any input
is
appreciated.

We are having a similar problem. Often, even if the software has been
uninstalled, it still appears on the computer's inventory. Another
problem we have found is that the Zenworks inventory does not always report the version actually being run on the computer. For example,
we
were specifically trying to find out what versions of CorelDRAW we are
using, but we came up with multiple computers running CorelDRAW
version
1.0. Obviously we are not using version 1.0 on any of our computers,
but
no other copy of CorelDRAW was listed as being installed on those
computers. We're preparing to do a physical inventory of these
computers
to find out what's actually there, but do you have any suggestions for
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Sincerely,
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Bob Jones University
> We are wanting to use the inventory and reports piece to help keep
track
of
> licensing. After doing an inventory the report shows every .exe and
every
> version that was ever installed it seems. Some of the programs that
show
up
> are no longer installed or they have the executable but never ran
it. So
we
> look at it and say user x has this installed when they might not
have it
> installed. Is there a way to JUST get what is actually installed? I
have
> not used ART or Crystal reports, but I would think they would just
help
> organize the information that Zen supplies, so I would think that
ZEN
would
> have to be able to differentiate between what is installed and what
is no
> longer installed, not the report tools. Am I wrong? Will Crystal or
ART
be
> able to seperate this info, or is there anything else that will help
> without having to use a totally different inventory program. Any
input is
> appreciated.

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