Installed Patch listing.

[DeadEye]

I have a number of Win2K / XP systems that I need to get some software inventory information about what patches are installed.

I would like to find a command line tool that will provide me with a list similar to what "showrev -p " does for me in Solaris.

I know I can go to the installed software list but that does not out put to a file. ( and doesn't support cut & Paste)

There are the directorys in the windows install area that contain the files to restore and the un-install scripts.

I may have to write a script to pull the information out of the .inf files if I can't find something that already exists.

Thanks, for any usefull input.

 

[DeadEye]

Well if you have cigwin installed you can do this from the windows directory -
find \$Nt* -name spuninst.inf -exec cat {} \; | grep NtServicePackVersion.*Text > `hostname`_patch_list

Thanks to the liberal use of $ signs in the path you can't do it from anywhere else... ( well maybe you can but parsing those out was turning out to be a PITA...)

 

[JimWells]

A number of software tools will list this for you. DameWare NT Utilities comes to mind.

You can also go to the registry and look under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates.