Group Policy

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"Bart Steur" <solnews@xs4all.nl> wrote in message
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> How can I detect that a Group Policy Software Installation is correctly
> applied on the users computer en make sure it's running the version of the
> program deployed in the specified msi. Without checking that users
> computer. (in a company with 50+ users I don't want to check each computer
> indiviually, but I still want to make sure everybody is running the same
> version)
>
> Bart
>

You could run a WMI script against those machines using the WIN32_Product
object and collect the result centrally to be inspected.
I'm not at all fluent in WMI scripting, but a very basic script looks like
this:

Dim strComputer
Dim objWMIService
Dim colItems

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2" )
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Product",,48)
For Each objItem in colItems
WScript.Echo "Caption: " & objItem.Caption
WScript.Echo "Description: " & objItem.Description
WScript.Echo "IdentifyingNumber: " & objItem.IdentifyingNumber
WScript.Echo "InstallDate: " & objItem.InstallDate
WScript.Echo "InstallDate2: " & objItem.InstallDate2
WScript.Echo "InstallLocation: " & objItem.InstallLocation
WScript.Echo "InstallState: " & objItem.InstallState
WScript.Echo "Name: " & objItem.Name
WScript.Echo "PackageCache: " & objItem.PackageCache
WScript.Echo "SKUNumber: " & objItem.SKUNumber
WScript.Echo "Vendor: " & objItem.Vendor
WScript.Echo "Version: " & objItem.Version
Next

producing (as part of an example) the following output::

Caption: Microsoft AntiSpyware
Description: Microsoft AntiSpyware
IdentifyingNumber: {536F7C74-844B-4683-B0C5-EA39E19A6FE3}
InstallDate: 20050223
InstallDate2: 20050223000000.000000-000
InstallLocation: C:\Program Files\Microsoft AntiSpyware\
InstallState: 5
Name: Microsoft AntiSpyware
PackageCache: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\1c7eea4.msi
SKUNumber:
Vendor: Microsoft Corporation
Version: 1.0


OK. The script needs work and maybe someone else here can help out with
this.

hth

george