Karla,

The failure occurs only with Windows Vista Home Premium x64 users who ACTAULLY 
have SP2 installed. We are checking for a registry setting:

HKLM\ SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\CSDVersion

to see if “Service Pack 2” is there or not.



From: Cisco Clean Access Users and Administrators 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karla Borecky
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 9:48 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Vista Questions

Hi Pete,

Are you Vista users passing other checks - say for SP1? In the Failed Checks, 
CCA lists things like SP2 if the person doesn't have SP2 - but it's not a 
failure per se. They probably have SP1 or "plain" Vista - all of which are 
acceptable as long as it's patched. BUT, if these folks actually *have* SP2 and 
it's not catching it, then there actually is a problem. (It's a very confusing 
system.)

As for the XP vs. Vista thing, it looks for the existence of this file to make 
sure it's Vista:

c:\windows\syswow64\kernel32.dll (32-bit)

or a registry key: HKCU Software\Wow6432Node\ (64-bit)

Hope this helps,
Karla

Karla Borecky
Novell Systems Administrator
Information Technology Services
Smith College
Northampton, MA  01063

Hello!

We are rolling out an In-Band virtual gateway for our VPN users and I have come 
across something I can’t confirm. All my Windows Vista Home Premium x64 users 
are failing the check for SP2. I don’t have any x64 machines to check to see 
where Service Pack 2 is in the registry. Can anyone help??

Also, I have one user who claims to be running VISTA yet NAC sees a XP machine. 
Has this ever happened to anyone??

Pete


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