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  • 1.  IE version report for NS7

    Posted May 09, 2011 08:52 AM

    Does anyone have\use a report in NS7 which gives them the ie version from ie6 through to ie8? Ideally i'd like to know PC name, IP address and version of ie, but any report which provides the i.e details would be useful.

    I've seen a couple of posts regarding this but neither have been answered specifically so if anyone has managed to achieve this i'd love to share your knowledge.

     

    Thanks

     

    Shaun

     



  • 2.  RE: IE version report for NS7

    Posted May 09, 2011 05:12 PM

    This one has been a little trick for me and I haven't had the time to really make the report work 100%, but I will share with you what I did manage to get done.

    It's a little tough for a couple of reasons.  First, IE 6 doesn't show up as an add/remove programs entry.  Second, at least in my Altiris environment, machines upgraded to IE 8 from 7 seem to show both as installed in Altiris-land. 

    So basically what I have is a report that shows three things: 

    Blank Add/Remove Programs Displayname for IE6

    Machines Altiris thinks have IE7 (likely inaccurate)

    Machines Altiris thinks have IE8 (likely pretty accurate)

    I grab a few fields for each machine and do some joins, including an add/remove programs class join.  This join is where I specify to grab machines w/addremove programs displayname = IE7 or IE8.  In the Where clause, I grab the IE6 machines by specify machines where resource guid is null (these are the blank AddRemove.DisplayName machines). 

    Then I grab machines with IE7 or IE8.

    See below:

    DECLARE @v1_TrusteeScope nvarchar(max)
       SET @v1_TrusteeScope = N'%TrusteeScope%'
    SELECT
       [vri2_Computer].[Name],
       [dca4_AeX AC Identification].[Client Date],
    [dca3_AddRemoveProgram].[DisplayName]
    FROM
       [vRM_Computer_Item] AS [vri2_Computer]
          LEFT OUTER JOIN [Inv_AddRemoveProgram] AS [dca3_AddRemoveProgram]
             ON ([vri2_Computer].[Guid] = [dca3_AddRemoveProgram].[_ResourceGuid] AND ([dca3_AddRemoveProgram].DisplayName = N'Windows Internet Explorer 7' OR [dca3_AddRemoveProgram].DisplayName = N'Windows Internet Explorer 8'))

          LEFT OUTER JOIN [Inv_AeX_AC_Identification] AS [dca4_AeX AC Identification]
             ON ([vri2_Computer].[Guid] = [dca4_AeX AC Identification].[_ResourceGuid])

          LEFT OUTER JOIN [vAsset] AS [ajs4_vAsset]
             ON ([vri2_Computer].[Guid] = [ajs4_vAsset].[_ResourceGuid])
          LEFT OUTER JOIN [vOSOperatingSystem] AS [vOS]
             ON ([vri2_Computer].[Guid] = [vOS].[_ResourceGuid])

    WHERE
       (
          (
             (
                [dca3_AddRemoveProgram].[_ResourceGuid] IS NULL
    OR

    [dca3_AddRemoveProgram].DisplayName = N'Windows Internet Explorer 8'
    OR
    [dca3_AddRemoveProgram].DisplayName = N'Windows Internet Explorer 7'
    )
               AND
                ([ajs4_vAsset].[Status] = N'Active')
               AND
                ([vOS].[Name] LIKE '%Windows XP%')

               
            
          )
          AND
          ([vri2_Computer].[Guid] IN (SELECT [ResourceGuid] FROM [ScopeMembership] WHERE [ScopeCollectionGuid] IN (SELECT [ScopeCollectionGuid] FROM dbo.fnGetTrusteeScopeCollections(@v1_TrusteeScope))))

       )

    The next step here would probably be to add some case statments for:

    1. Case where resourceguid is null, set the displayname to IE6

    2. Case where machine has both ie7 and ie8, make the diplayname IE8.

    That might work for you.

     

    Otherwise, maybe inventory the c:\program files\internet explorer folder and just a report on the version of iexplore.exe - might be easier than trying to deal w/things from the add/remove programs aspect...



  • 3.  RE: IE version report for NS7

    Posted May 09, 2011 06:30 PM

    Actions > Create Targeted Software Inventory



  • 4.  RE: IE version report for NS7
    Best Answer

    Posted Aug 03, 2011 01:22 PM

    Since SMP doesn't inventory the installed Internet Explorer application very well, using Add/Remove programs or Targeted Inventories didn't work for me. After much digging, I found what appears to be a viable solution...

    Start with the "Audit Software Search Report" which is located in 7.0 under:

    Reports > Discovery and Inventory > Inventory > Cross-platform >Software/Applications > General Software

    Choose:
    Computer Name: --Any--
    File Name: iexplore.exe
    Product Version:8%  ( or whatever version you are looking for)

    Click Refresh.

    This report is not perfect and you will get duplicate computer names. To clean it up, click 'Save As' into Excel and remove duplicate computer names (Data tab > Remove Duplicates and select only the Computer Name column).

    Though a bit clunky, this seems to be better than any other options available in SMP.

    I have also created a simplified version of the report using the SQL below. Even when using the Distinct statement, it may return duplicate computer names because of the file path. Once again, dropping it into Excel can easily fix this.

    select distinct

    vc.[Name],

    fd.[Name] as [File Name],

    wf.[ProductVersion],

    fd.[Path],

    vc.[guid]

    from

    dbo.Inv_Installed_File_Details FD

    JOIN vcomputer VC on VC.[Guid] = FD.[_ResourceGUID]

    JOIN dbo.Inv_Windows_File wf ON wf.[_ResourceGuid] = FD.[FileResourceGuid]

    where fd.[Name] like 'iexplore.exe'

    and wf.[ProductVersion] like '8%'



  • 5.  RE: IE version report for NS7

    Posted Aug 04, 2011 07:17 AM

    Hi thanks for that,

    That should do what we need it to do, I'll try the SQL report yet, but I think this will show what I need it too

     

    Cheers