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Taking Inventory of Your Organization (Windows 10) This section provides information about how to use the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) to identify applications and devices that are installed in your organization. d52f138d-c6b2-4ab1-bb38-5b036311a51d w10 plan appcompat library TrudyHa

Taking Inventory of Your Organization

Applies to

  • Windows 10
  • Windows 8.1
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 7
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2008 R2

This section provides information about how to use the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) to identify applications and devices that are installed in your organization.

In this section

Topic Description

[Identifying Computers for Inventory Collection](identifying-computers-for-inventory-collection.md)

An inventory-collector package gathers inventory data from the computers on which it is installed. This data includes the following:

[Creating an Inventory-Collector Package](creating-an-inventory-collector-package.md)

You can use Application Compatibility Manager (ACM) to create an inventory-collector package. You can then deploy the inventory-collector package to other computers to gather inventory data. The package uploads inventory data to the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) database.

[Deploying an Inventory-Collector Package](deploying-an-inventory-collector-package.md)

You can use the following methods to deploy an inventory-collector package to the destination computers:

 

Testing Compatibility on the Target Platform

Managing Your Data-Collection Packages

Analyzing Your Compatibility Data

Fixing Compatibility Issues