Installed Applications Report

Question

I'm trying to get a total count of all applications used in our environment.  I'm running the 'Count of all instances of software registered with Add or Remove Programs', however it reports each version of a single product as an individual row/product.
 So for example, I have 15 rows for UltraEdit because of the various versions installed in the environment.
Is there a report that will just consolidate it down regardless of the version of the product?

Answer 1

copy the report and remove the version attribute from the select statement and remove from the group by and order by clauses.
From the properties for DataSet0:
change:
SELECT DisplayName0, Count(*) AS 'Count', Publisher0, Version0, @CollID as CollectionID
FROM fn_rbac_Add_Remove_Programs(@UserSIDs)  arp
JOIN fn_rbac_FullCollectionMembership(@UserSIDs)  fcm on arp.ResourceID=fcm.ResourceID 
WHERE fcm.CollectionID = @CollID
GROUP BY DisplayName0, Publisher0, Version0 
ORDER BY Publisher0, Version0
to be:
SELECT DisplayName0, Count(*) AS 'Count', Publisher0, @CollID as CollectionID
FROM fn_rbac_Add_Remove_Programs(@UserSIDs)  arp
JOIN fn_rbac_FullCollectionMembership(@UserSIDs)  fcm on arp.ResourceID=fcm.ResourceID 
WHERE fcm.CollectionID = @CollID
GROUP BY DisplayName0, Publisher0
ORDER BY Publisher0
That will remove the version and will group by display name and publisher only, giving you the count you are looking for.