Report on which computers have which version of Internet Explorer?

Question

Hi, Does anyone know of a simple report or way of reporting on which computers have which version of Internet Explorer?
e.g. I expect to mostly find 7, but checking also for 6 & 8).
As its integrated into the OS this isn't as easy to determine as with other products installed. I know there are simple manual check like "Help About" and HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi
Torsten is rigth, the reigstry path does contain version information (and other usefull information). You can get the information by:
Adding this entry to the configuration.mof file:
#pragma deleteclass("IE", NOFAIL)
[DYNPROPS]
Class IE
[key] string KeyName;
String MkEnabled;
String Version;
String Build;
String W2kVersion;
Uint32 IntegratedBrowser;
[DYNPROPS]
Instance of IE
keyname="SystemCenter.fr";
[PropertyContext("Local|HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer|MkEnabled"),Dynamic,Provider("RegPropProv")] MkEnabled;
[PropertyContext("Local|HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer|Version"),Dynamic,Provider("RegPropProv")] Version;
[PropertyContext("Local|HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer|Build"),Dynamic,Provider("RegPropProv")] Build;
[PropertyContext("Local|HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer|W2kVersion"),Dynamic,Provider("RegPropProv")] W2kVersion;
[PropertyContext("Local|HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer|IntegratedBrowser"),Dynamic,Provider("RegPropProv")] IntegratedBrowser;
And enter this information into the SMS_def.mof file
#pragma namespace ("\\\\.\\root\\cimv2\\SMS")
#pragma deleteclass("IE", NOFAIL)
[SMS_Report(TRUE),SMS_Group_Name("IE"),SMS_Class_ID("IE|IE|1.0")]
Class IE: SMS_Class_Template
[SMS_Report(TRUE),key] string KeyName;
[SMS_Report(TRUE)] String MkEnabled;
[SMS_Report(TRUE)] String Version;
[SMS_Report(TRUE)] String Build;
[SMS_Report(TRUE)] String W2kVersion;
[SMS_Report(TRUE)] Uint32 IntegratedBrowser;
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