Yet another option might be to programmatically process the System Event log and look for NTServicePack entries.
>Hi Mike. I'm thinking that this is how we will have to know if the patch has been installed or not. There also appears to be a KB*.log file for each patch that is installed as well.
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>>Hi Evan,
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>>Don't know if this will help, but on my W2K box, the WINNT subdirectory has folders for the patches ie. $NtUninstallKB329115$
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>>>>>>Check out this message: 996943
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>>>>>This determines the service pack number, we instead need to determine if a specific hotfix has been installed.
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>>>>I thought that hotfixes are shown in the Add/Remove programs window.
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>>>I should have been more specific, we are trying to automate this process, not have a human do it. We therefore need a command line utility or something similar.
Regards. Al
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