Check if a specific KB update is installed in Windows

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With Windows XP/2003 and earlier you could often just look in C:\windows for installed patches there would be a KBxxxxxxx folder, however life moved on.. Today I had the need to see if a patch was installed and I found this quite useful; http://serverfault.com/questions/263847/how-can-i-query-my-system-via-command-line-to-see-if-a-kb-patch-is-installed I ended up using the command; 
wmic qfe | find "KB2744129"
You ofcause exchange the KB number with the one you are looking for.. This worked like a charm for me 🙂  tnx Jscott.
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Google Glasses…

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OMG I am just looking forward to these Google Glasses, I really think this will have a huge impact on our daily life over time..  like Augmented reality etc.

Sadly I do fear that V1.0 likely may be a bit buggy and expensive..

http://youtu.be/V6Tsrg_EQMw

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Forefront Endpoint Protection – fustrations

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2013-06-28_14h08_52I just updated our “Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection” client software, this in turn caused several of my scripts to stop working 🙁

Digging led to the discovery that the PATH has changed :-/ omg why change that…

Namely I ran two commands weekly on all our servers;

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Client\Antimalware\MpCmdRun.exe" -SignatureUpdate -MMPC"
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Client\Antimalware\MpCmdRun.exe" -scan -scantype 2"

The first foreces Forefront to update it’s definitions straight from the Internet repository, and the second forces a full scan.

but the “Antimalware” part of Forefront (or at least MpCmdRun.exe) seem to have moved from;

“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Client\Antimalware” to “”C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Client”

But why 🙁  – anyhow, if you update your Forefront Endpoint Protection be sure to check any manual scripts you have running.

 

Downloading the updates manually;

You can still download the update file manually (80mb aprox), it’s the same file as for Endpoint Protection –  get them here;
http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/definitions/howtomse.aspx
or try this undocumented one (direct download link); http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=121721

 

 

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