I was troubleshooting some issues and I needed a way to collect an overview of Windows Updates installed on a couple of machines and after some digging around I found the following command line:
gwmi Win32_QuickFixEngineering | select Description, Hotfixid
But because I had to run this command on several different machines and wanted the information in one logfile I had to search for the Win32_QuickFixEnginereering properties to see if there’s a property which can make the results unique. On the MS technet site I found the following description:
Table 8.11 Win32_QuickFixEngineering Properties
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| CSName | Local name of the computer system. |
| Description | Description of the hot fix. |
| HotFixID | Unique identifier associated with a particular hot fix. |
| InstallDate | Date the hot fix was installed. |
| InstalledBy | Person who installed the update. |
So I added the CSName property and a location to write the results to and I had a good listing of all windows updates installed:
gwmi Win32_QuickFixEngineering | select CSName, Description, Hotfixid >> \\contoso.local\NETLOGON\VersionControl.txt
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Good script!
And for the ones that rather use PowerShell : http://blogs.technet.com/b/tmintner/archive/2006/07/07/440729.aspx
Jeff, I found that one as well but it doesn’t format the output as nicely as the script above? This was out of the box what I needed while the technet blog needs some work in order to make it useful (for me that is :))