"Jon" <Email_Address@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> "Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>> How can I design a procedure to inventory the Microsoft patches that have
>> been applied to Vista?
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>> What I'm trying to do is to be able to have an inventory program record
>> an enumeration of the installed patches, allowing downstream programs to
>> determine if the machine has the updates that are required by company
>> policy.
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> You can get a basic list by typing this at a command prompt
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> systeminfo
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> You could also use the wmic command eg
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> wmic qfe get hotfixid
> wmic qfe get hotfixid,Description
> wmic qfe list brief
Thanks. That certainly helps (and I hadn't run across it -- USENET to the
rescue!) but what would be most useful would be if I can identify
information somewhere on the computer (preferably in the Registry) that
could be picked up by the existing inventory program (Opsware's "Asset
Tracking Edition") and included verbatim in the inventory report for later
parsing. The less the function would require new features to be added to
the Opsware product the more quickly it is likely to be available.
Joe Morris