Hi
Im currentley installaing Windows XPSP2 through BAT files and also deploying the software updates for Windows XP SP2 after words - ALL OF THIS IS GOING WELL

I have a log file with which I can check if a workststion is online/offline and whether I have acces or not

here is my dilemma
I also need a simple way to see wheter the security updates was INSTALLED or not
there is a log file under c:\Windows\ for each patch - is there a way that I can have this written to a log file if I reference it against a file called secupdates.txt that will have the relevant security updates listed  with the computer name - I want to pull this later on into an Excell file so that I can have some form of reporting
Unfortunatly I do not have the luxury of SMS/WSUS to do all of this for me

HELP Greatly appreciated
FRIKKIEIs this sort of stuff recorded in the event logs?  If so, you could use LogParser to pull and sift the relevant information.  Would that help?Hi
I think it should be written in the event viewer
I went through the system and application log files but couldnt find any thing there

But what I have done this far is the following
FIND /I "qbc1" C:\windows\KB*.log echo >> secupdt.log

the only problem is that the current output that I get is as follows

---------- C:\WINDOWS\KB911564.LOG

---------- C:\WINDOWS\KB912812-IE6SP1-20060322.182418.LOG

---------- C:\WINDOWS\KB912919.LOG

---------- C:\WINDOWS\KB914389.LOG

---------- C:\WINDOWS\KB917953.LOG

I would LIKE to have this into a single line and seperated by semicolons and without ------c:\windows - just the kb no would be sufficient

thx FrikkieYou might try asking this question in the DOS forum, for some batch scripting tips.  I'm a PHP man, so whilst I could write you a script to strip out the requisite information, you'd need the PHP engine installed in order to RUN it.Thank you I will do so
Frikkie