Problem with creating report on software
Hi,
I need to deploy the MS Group Policy Preferences/Client Side Extension update (KB943729) to all of our Windows XP computers that do not have it installed. I thought I would just create a report of computers without KB943729 and then create a collection from that report for the SWD job but I am running into an issue with the report. No matter what I do I get a mixed list of some computers with the update installed and some that do not. I spent a few days searching this site, Altirigos, and Google without any luck.
I am still just learning SQL so I am at a loss as to what I am doing wrong.
In the mean time I plan on building a collection of all XP machines with the update installed and use it as an exclusion group for the collection I am going to use as the target for the SWD job.
The SQL statement I am using is below (used the console editor):
SELECT DISTINCT [vResourceEx].[Name] AS 'Name', [vResourceEx].[Guid]
FROM [vResourceEx] INNER JOIN [Inv_AeX_OS_Updates] ON [vResourceEx].[Guid] = [Inv_AeX_OS_Updates].[ResourceGuid]
WHERE [Inv_AeX_OS_Updates].[Patch ID] <> 'KB943729'
Thanks!
P.S We are running NS 6.
Comments
Here you go
The problem is that you are saying in your SQL that you want all the results where the patch ID is not equal to KB943729. That means you are going to get every machine with any KB installed as long as the line does not have that particular KB in it. This should do the trick so you only look for that particular KB and exclude all machines with it currently installed:
--What this does is select every computer from the vComputer view
--and then exclude all those resources from the OS Updates table that have the patch installed.
Select guid from vcomputer
where guid not in
(Select _ResourceGuid as guid
from Inv_AeX_OS_Updates
where [Patch ID] = 'KB943729')
The exclusion method is probably a less complicated way to go however. If you just take a collection of all machines, then exclude all those with that kb installed, then as you get it installed, your push list will shrink by any machines that have installed it. Either way you get the same result, so take your pick.
Hope this helps.
Mike
Another way
There is another way to do this as well, same result:
Thanks,
Kyle
Symantec Trusted Advisor
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