What patches, hot fixes, etc. are installed

[Guest]

Hello,

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to generate a report which lists each
and every patch, service pack, hotfix, etc. which is installed on a PC? Can
this be sorted by installation date?

TIA,

Rich

 

[Jim]

Hello,

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to generate a report which lists each
and every patch, service pack, hotfix, etc. which is installed on a PC?
Can
this be sorted by installation date?

TIA,

Rich

www.belarc.com

Jim

 

[Guest]

Is there a Microsoft-based solution for this?

www.belarc.com

Jim

 

[Jim]

Is there a Microsoft-based solution for this?

If there is, I haven't seen one. You can get the list of installed fixes
etc from Windows Update. Then you format that list to suit yourself.
Belarc's product merely queries the registry, etc, and prepares a list for
you.
Jim

 

[Guest]

I found my answer on The Scripting Guy website. I adopted the solution
located at:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/sept05/hey0930.mspx

The article referenced above looks for a specific patch. I modified the VBS
script to look for any and all patches. My final solution is this:

Wscript.echo "Script is running..."
Set objSession = CreateObject("Microsoft.Update.Session")
Wscript.echo "ObjectSession created."

Set objSearcher = objSession.CreateUpdateSearcher
Wscript.echo "objSearcher has been set."

Set objResults = objSearcher.Search("Type='Software'")
Wscript.echo "objResults has been set."

Set colUpdates = objResults.Updates
Wscript.echo "colUpdates has been set."

Wscript.echo "Starting loop."
For i = 0 to colUpdates.Count - 1
Wscript.echo ("Number " & i & ": " & colUpdates.Item(i).Title)
Next

I execute the script from a command line and redirect the output to a text
file as indicated below:

cscript <scriptname.vbs > outfile.txt

On my laptop, I was able to see that 142 patches had been applied.

Hope this helps others....

Rich