Identify Windows Device OS Versions in Otto
- Terrence S Miller
Windows Platform as a Service (WPaaS) admins can use Otto to identify the Windows 10 operating system versions installed on their unit's WPaaS systems.
Environment
Windows Platform as a Service
Procedure
There are several ways OS data may be viewed including pie chart, list view, CSV report.
Pie Chart - High Level View
Open Otto (https://otto.euc.it.umich.edu/) in a web browser and select your Windows Platform as a Service organization. On the left side of the browser window, you can view a pie chart to show the distribution of systems with each operating system. Hover the mouse pointer over the pie chart to view the number of systems with a specified OS version.
List View - Filtered by OS
Open Otto (https://otto.euc.it.umich.edu/) in a web browser and select your Windows Platform as a Service organization. To view a list of devices with a specified OS version, use the drop-down “Filter by OS” menu on the upper-right area of the organization page:
Text-based Device Report - Comma-Separated-Value
Open Otto (https://otto.euc.it.umich.edu/) in a web browser and select your Windows Platform as a Service organization. To access a comma-separated-value (CSV) value report of devices that includes operating system version data, follow these steps:
Click the Navigate menu and select Organizations and Groups.
Click the name of your organization to open your PaaS organization page.
In the Groups section of the organization page click a group name to report on. This will open configuration page for the selected group.
In the Actions section of the group page, click CSV Report. This will download a CSV formatted file that may be opened in Excel, Google Sheets, or a text editor.
Note that the CSV reports that contain OS version data are per group. To obtain OS version data from devices in different groups, you must generate a CSV report for each group.
