Find devices running Factory Orchestrator on your local network

The Factory Orchestrator service supports DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD), which allows you to easily to query your local network for devices running the Factory Orchestrator service with network access enabled! (If network access is not enabled, the service does not advertise to DNS-SD.)

Use the app

The Factory Orchestrator Windows app can list all devices running Factory Orchestrator service on your network. This only works if the Factory Orchestrator service is not running on the PC the app is launched on.

Use FindDevice

FindDevice is an open source, cross-platform, .NET command line tool that you can use to look for devices running Factory Orchestrator service via DNS-SD. You can view the source code and/or download it at https://github.com/microsoft/FindDevice/.

Use PowerShell or C# code

It's super easy to find devices running Factory Orchestrator using the Microsoft.FactoryOrchestrator.Client C# library and/or PowerShell module! See Find devices running Factory Orchestrator on the client usage samples page!

DNS-SD details

Factory Orchestrator service instances advertise under <HostName>_factorch._tcp.local, with the port the service uses (by default 45684) contained in the SRV record. The TXT records contain additional properties:

Property	Details
OSVersion	A string representing the OS & its version.
ServiceVersion	A string representing the version of Factory Orchestrator service.