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[David Ledbetter]

All hail the inhabitants of Geekdom!

I want to find (search for) all pre-service pack 4
computers on our network so that I may exclude them from
Group Policy upgrade. Or, I need to tell Windows to not re-
install if service pack 4 already exists on the machine.

AD GUI-find-interface doesn't include the service pack
field as a searchable property.

Any suggestions?

Thanks, oh cyber-gurus.

 

[Jerold Schulman]

All hail the inhabitants of Geekdom!

I want to find (search for) all pre-service pack 4
computers on our network so that I may exclude them from
Group Policy upgrade. Or, I need to tell Windows to not re-
install if service pack 4 already exists on the machine.

AD GUI-find-interface doesn't include the service pack
field as a searchable property.

Any suggestions?

Thanks, oh cyber-gurus.

Use tip 4195 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com
to inspect the CSDVersion value name at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion
using reg.exe from the support tools on your server CD, or use Psexec, tip 4141,
and
For /f "Skip=1 Tokens=1" %%i in ('netdom query /d:YourDomain WORKSTATION') do (
...........

to run reg.exe from your desktop.



Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com