Hi, I'm trying to find the version of an installed application across  a bunch of servers.  The problem is the servers are on an older version of .NET and I cannot find the correct class to query.

Does anyone know which class .NET 1.1 contains information about installed software?

Regards

Lee

OK, not sure if you'll actually find such a class, but let me propose using WMI:
PS> gwmi -computername some_computer win32_product

Some other ideas:
http://windowsitpro.com/article/art...g-wmi.html

thats a great link, thanks. i'm pretty sure i tried that class but i'll revisit it when i'm back in the office next year.

regards

lee

Win32_Product only holds the install information for products that were installed using the Mcrosoft Installer (MSI) engine. If the software vendor doesn't want to play nice, then there just simply is no consistent way to get the install info. The two most common methods are to look at Win32_Product as already discussed and to look at the Uninstall information in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall. There is nothing that requires a vendor to put information there, but the vast majority of vendors do.

If Add/Remove Wizard doesn't reflect its presence, you might want to take a look in HKLM\ Software\ Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Installer. Cheers