Steve, actually you cannot use an WMI filter to query for software that is NOT installed, only software that is installed, check my previous answer to the original question for details on WMI classes with multiple instances, negated WMI filters and a, unfortunately complex, workaround to the issue.
Best regards, Thorbj�rn Sj�vold Special Operations Software www.specopssoft.com thorbjorn.sjovold a t specopssoft.com Specops Deploy, Takes Group Policy Based Software Deployment to the next level -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Rochford Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Office deployments via GPO What's running on the desktops? If it's XP then you could use a WMI filter to query for installed software - http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/shared/asp/view.asp?url=/Seminar/en/200 30623tnt1_86/manifest.xml has some stuff on this and I think slide 22 might be helpful. If you do work out how to do it, please post here because I'd also like to know details of how to do it :-) Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rimmerman, Russ Sent: 25 January 2005 00:38 To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] Office deployments via GPO We have many desktops that we want to deploy Office 2003 to, and some of them already have Office 2003. Seperating which ones do and don't would be difficult, so we want to apply the GPO to a whole list of computers and let it deploy. The problem is, if they already have Office 2003 on the workstations, it deploys over top of it anyway, and this could cause Outlook or some other issues. Is there any way to get the GPO to detect if O2K3 is already installed and skip deployment if so? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This e-mail is confidential, may contain proprietary information of the Cooper Cameron Corporation and its operating Divisions and may be confidential or privileged. This e-mail should be read, copied, disseminated and/or used only by the addressee. If you have received this message in error please delete it, together with any attachments, from your system. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ ########################################### This message has been scanned by F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange. For more information, connect to http://www.f-secure.com/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
