How to determine Service Pack Level

[mrtoledo]

I am attempting to write a batch file to determine what service pack of Windows 2K machines are on. Is there any particular file(s) I can check for, or is there any command line utility that will return this infomation. I can do this mannualy through AD Users and Comptuers, but that is too much work. Any ideas is apprecaited...

 

[nlm9802]

not sure if you can search via the registry, but you can check the current service pack by going to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\CSDVersion
value will be Service Pack #, possibly blank if no service pack is present.
what we do here is add a "flag" file when service packs or other updates are installed, this way a user logs on, the batch file sees if there are any updates for their particular machine, group, or that user, then sees if they have that flag file in a set location. If not, it pushes out the update, if they do have the flag file, it ignores the update.

 

[pctechnician]

You cant also just go to the properties of your my computer icon, and a service pack # will be stated there.

A+,Network+,MCP

 

[wolluf]

running winver will display 'about windows' popup with the info.

Psinfo (part of pstools, freeware from

http://www.sysinternals.com)

will display it among other details (can pipe it to a text file from command prompt).

 

[mrtoledo]

Thanks, I will try the software from sysinternals.com. I need to do this from a batch file so I can collect the data remotley, visting several hundered machines is not practical.

Running winver will not give me a service pack level.