How to Confirm Service pack files are intact

[vexxed]

I have several remote offices and I have found that the technicians there are not reapplying the service pack 6a after that add such services as DHCP to a server. This essentially leaves the server with outdated files from the original NT SP1 distribution.
These servers originally has sp6a installed after they were built and dhcp was added later.
Is there an easy way to determine if a server is using outdated files?

 

[PeteH2]

Ms Service Packs are complex beasts. Coupled wih IE 'updates' the whole thing becomes pretty much impossible to administer. For this reason I dont know of an 'SP checker', but there may be one out there.

Admittedly I dont know how many PC's you speak of, nor how accessible they are, but IMHO, the only way to make sure an SP has taken proopery is to re-apply it anyway.

However, as usual, I'm open to correction.

Pete...

 

[vexxed]

Well, after some bigtime searching (you wouldn't believe the number of hits you get on google with the keywords windows + service + Pack)
I found the microsoft checker Hfnetchk
I'd heard about it but I always used servinfo to get my installed hotfixes etc. Obviously srvinfo does no file checking, it just reads the registry.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=31154

"For Hfnetchk to determine if a specific patch is installed on a given computer, three items are evaluated: the registry key that is installed by the patch, the file version, and the checksum for each file that is installed by the patch."