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Need help with creating a custom report

Updated: 21 May 2010 | 1 comment
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I'm trying to create report that will return the results of all the software and the count by computer in my domain, however I want to exclude certain programs from this report. I can do this two ways:

1) I have two computers which are my baseline computers (i.e. I've built these machines with the applications I nkow about)

2) I know the file locations of all the applications I want to exclude.

Ideally, I'd like to create a report which will return all software audit results, excluding the software found on my two baseline machines. If that's too complex, I'm willing to write a report that will return all software audit results minus the software file locations I already know about (by manually excluding them in the script).

Does someone have a sample report I can use to build this report?

Thanks!

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MFINN's picture
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This is what I would do...

The way I would do it, would be to subquery the add/remove table for your 2 baseline PC's, then run your COUNT off of add/remove with a WHERE NOT IN. I'll post a query a little bit later today with parameters for the 2 PC names to be filtered.

Edit: The problem you'll run into, though, will be that only exact matches will filter out, so new versions of say, winzip, with a slightly different name will still be returned. I suppose you could then add individual exclusions for the apps that you know are supposed to be there, but still show up in your results.