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Tutorial: Scope Action

Reporting or Detecting the version of Microsoft Internet Explorer installed on my machines

This tutorial describes how to configure a Scope Action to scan the machines on your network and report the version of Internet Explorer installed, or report the list of machines which have a version of Internet Explorer which is older than a desired value.

Solution

 

 

Reporting the version of Internet Explorer installed on my machines

The easiest way to report the version of Internet Explorer is to read the information from the Registry.

Internet Explorer registers its information under the registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer. The registry container includes the registry value of interest: 'Version'.

Let's create a scope action which reports this value.

1. Create a new scope action, define its name and click on Next.

2. Under Scope, select the Computers object type and define the list of machines to process (see: Defining the Scope). Click on Next.

3. Under Actions, double click on Add New to start the Action Module property window.

4. Under Execute the following Action(s), click on 
   Add/Remove > Report Computer Property > Registry Value > Manage Accessible Key Paths...
   
   Under the Registry Key Paths Manager, configure a new entry for the Internet Explorer registry container:

   1. Click on the Plus button

   2. Configure the Key Path field to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer

   3. Configure the Display Name field to: Internet Explorer Info

   4. Click on Ok
       

5. Under Execute the following Action(s), click on 
   Add/Remove > Report Computer Property > Registry Value > Internet Explorer Info > Data as a string

6. Under Only if the following is true, click on 
   Add/Remove > Set Computer Condition > Registry Value > Internet Explorer Info > Name
   
   Click in the Condition cell (where it indicates: <Enter Condition Here>) and set it to '=' (equal)
   
   Click on the Desired Value cell (where it indicates: <Enter Value Here>) and configure the Name parameter to Version
    
   You should see this:
   
   

7. Click on OK.

8. Complete your scope action and run.

Goverlan will then visit each computer as defined in the Scope, and report the version of Internet Explorer installed on each machine:

 

 

Reporting the list of machines which have an 'Earlier' version of IE installed

The scope action defined above reports the version of Internet Explorer installed on your machines. Now let's modify it so that it only reports the machines which have Internet Explorer version 6 or earlier installed.

To do this, we only need to add one condition as follows:

1. Open the Properties of the above Scope Action

2. Select the Action Modules tab and double click on the Action Module object.

3. Under Only if the following is true, click on 
   Add/Remove > Set Computer Condition > Registry Value > Internet Explorer Info > Data as a Number
   
   Click in the Condition cell (where it indicates: <Enter Condition Here>) and set it to '<' (less than)
   
   Click on the Desired Value cell (where it indicates: <Enter Value Here>) and configure the Data as a Number parameter to 7
   You should see this:
   
   

4. Complete your scope action and run.

The new report will only include the list of computers which have Internet Explorer version 6 or earlier.