Re: Confirm SP2 installed


Before esatblishing a remote connection into our office network, we are
able
to carry out client integrity checks of clients PCs in our users homes.

The checks are pretty basic - We can check if a file exists in a
particular
location, we can check if a registry key exists and has the correct
information and we can MD5 hash files to check for integrity.

I want to ensure that our users are running XP with SP2 installed.
1. What registry key/data will confirm this to me?
2. Is there a particular executable that will be the same (XP home and
Pro)
that I could check integrity with a hash?
3. Is there a better newsgroup to post this in? :)

Can you write your own software to do this? If so then see
http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724451.aspx .There are
references here for doing it remotely as well though I've never tried it
outside of the local intranet. Note that doing it by checking some registry
key or a file may be possible (protected Windows files in particular) but
it's not really a good idea unless you have no choice. I'm not sure what
MSFT would have to say about it (you can try contacting them) but I
seriously doubt they would recommend it. Using an official function from the
Windows API is normally the proper way to do it (note that I'm a very
experienced software developer)


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