Modern endpoint estates contain a lot more than the laptop itself: docking stations, external monitors, headsets, USB peripherals, and a long tail of business-specific gear. Microsoft Endpoint Analytics gives you the foundation to capture all of that with a custom data-collection script and feed it into Log Analytics, where you can correlate peripheral inventory with users, locations and refresh cycles. This post walks through the pattern I use to detect connected hardware: a PowerShell collector that reads CIM classes, normalises the result, and posts it into a custom Log Analytics table — ready for Power BI and procurement reporting.
To see which devices are using a particular monitor or keyboard, it can be very helpful if you can collect this information. In this blog I will show you how to do this with the help of Endpoint Analytics. You can then use this information to assign a driver to these devices or to trigger a hardware replacement. How you can automatically populate a group based on the output of an endpoint analytics script I explained in create and fill Microsoft Entra ID group based on local attributes.
