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RE: Microsoft Software Auditing ?
From: "warcat" <warcat () military-sf com>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 21:59:42 -0400
My personal favorite is Winaudit. http://www.pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm which does everything you've described. It is a small, single file that is easily scripted. Depending on the script you can e-mail it, dump it into a csv file, dump it into a database (SQL, MySQL, PostGrep, etc). It does HTML and works on Windows 95 and up. I've managed it several ways (I work for a consulting company). Via script where it dumps things into a csv file. I compile them and import into a custom Access database for my reports, or I dump them into a MySQL database where I can use the same Access DB to run reports. MySQL is easiest because the ODBC connection is just a registry key you can import, and rolling out MyODBC is pretty easy. Haven't figured out how to do a installable SQL ODBC (mostly because MySQL is so much easier, and more readily available.) It collects a large amount of information from BIOS to License keys, service pack levels, patches, logged on user, dll's etc. You can script it so it just pulls certain items (it can take a while to catalogue all dll's). Extremely versatile. I can't say it is perfect but it pulls back a very large amount of information. The hard part is creating reports to get what you want. (Which can be child's play in Access or Fox Pro). If you need help with it let me know. Sorry about the long post. I troll a lot but when I have something to say, I say a lot of it. Good luck and Thank you. -Bill -----Original Message----- From: Michael Gale [mailto:michael.gale () bluesuperman com] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 10:36 PM To: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: Microsoft Software Auditing ? Hello, Does any body know of any free / cheap Microsoft auditing software ? Ideally I would like something that could be run from a login script, that would find all the software currently installed and either: store it in a network drive (excel, html,txt) e-mail the data I do not want to have to take out a loan to buy this software. preferably open source :) Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Earn your MS in Information Security ONLINE Organizations worldwide are in need of highly qualified information security professionals. Norwich University is fulfilling this demand with its MS in Information Security offered online. Recognized by the NSA as an academically excellent program, NU offers you the opportunity to earn your degree without disrupting your home or work life. http://www.msia.norwich.edu/secfocus_en ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Earn your MS in Information Security ONLINE Organizations worldwide are in need of highly qualified information security professionals. Norwich University is fulfilling this demand with its MS in Information Security offered online. Recognized by the NSA as an academically excellent program, NU offers you the opportunity to earn your degree without disrupting your home or work life. http://www.msia.norwich.edu/secfocus_en ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- RE: Microsoft Software Auditing ? warcat (Apr 07)
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- Re: Microsoft Software Auditing ? Jonathan Loh (Apr 06)
- RE: Microsoft Software Auditing ? Depp, Dennis M. (Apr 07)
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- RE: Microsoft Software Auditing ? Beauford, Jason (Apr 07)
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