Hi, I'm currently preparing a migration from XP/2003 to Windows 7/2008 R2 and one thing that affects Windows Updates is that there is no longer a simple registry check available as in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\... I've hacked together a very basic implementation of a new check type "wmi" that allows to query (surprise) WMI objects as a basis for package checks. What currently works is an "exists" check that interprets the check's "path" attribute as an object path and checks whether such an instance exists. Example usage: <check type="wmi" condition="exists" path="Win32_QuickFixEngineering.HotFixID='KB976902',ServicePackInEffect=''"/> One obvious enhancement would be to a "condition" that allows for "path" to contain a complete WQL query. But before considering this further and what combinations of condition/path/value would make sense, I'd like to check if there is any interest in this at all and if it has a chance to make it into WPKG. I'm aware that execute checks with wmic or custom scripts can be used here, but such an approach would come with a very high performance penalty when it's trivial to run the check right from WPKG. Regards, Malte -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/attachments/20121009/665de12f/attachment.html> |