During software inventory, the names of the manufacturers that produced the files on clients and the names of the files (or software products) themselves are retrieved from the header information of these files. Because these names are not always standardized in the header information, when you view software inventory information in Resource Explorer or run queries, different versions of the same manufacturer or product name can sometimes appear.

You can use this tab to change variations of a manufacturer or product name to a consistent display name. To do so, you specify the display name you want to use, and then specify the inventoried names you want to associate with the display name.

Note
When you specify new display names, the names that appear in the header information of the actual files on the clients are not changed. Instead, the inventoried names are changed to the display names in the Configuration Manager 2007 site database.
Name type

Specifies the type of inventoried name to change.
Manufacturer

Allows you to view, define, or modify inventoried names and display names for manufacturers.
Product

Allows you to view or modify inventoried names and display names for products.
Display name

Specifies the name that the associated inventoried names will be changed to. When you select a display name, the associated inventoried names appear in the Inventoried names list.
New icon

Opens the display name dialog box, which allows you to add a new entry to the Display name list.
Properties icon

Opens the display name properties dialog box, which allows you to modify the selected display name.
Delete icon

Deletes the selected display name. When you delete a display name, the next time software inventory runs, the inventoried names associated with this display name will not be changed to this display name.
Inventoried names

Specifies the names that you want to associate with the display name.
New icon

Opens the inventory name properties dialog box, which allows you to add a new entry to the Inventoried names list.
Properties icon

Opens the inventory name properties dialog box, which allows you to modify the selected inventoried name.
Delete icon

Deletes the selected inventory name. When you delete an inventoried name, the next time software inventory runs, this name will not be changed to the associated display name (the name that appears in the Display name list).

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