Once more about "black" and "white" file lists.

Hello everyone!
I've got a task to find all unauthorized  executables on all workstations in domain. The good point is that workstations are identical to each other (both hard and soft), bad point is that I have to find the existence of this files on HDDs, not their
launches. And I have to use SCCM 2012 SP1 for reporting as well. That's why I cannot use the AppLocker.
Well, what I've decided to do is to take one of workstations as the sample (SW - sample workstation). All updates, patches, etc. are provided at SW first, then are spread on whole domain. All .exe (and another file masks) on SW are presumed as "white",
all others on workstations are presumed as "black" ones.What I need now is to compare white-list from SW with file list from every computer in collection.
There already exists almost ready-to-use report that I need, but it has to be modified. Unfortunately, my knowledge of MS SQL is somewhere below zero (maybe absolute zero, -274C :) ). Thats,s why I'm asking for help. I've tried to find some articles about
creating or modifying reports, but most of them are the same: "Open Report Builder, now copy and paste there the sample query from below. Wonder what a pretty report  you've got!"
The report is "Compare software inventory on two computers". What modifications do I need:
- Compare not "Computer name - Computer name" but "Computer name - Select a collection"
- Exclude files from white-list (from SW) from report.
- Exclude size, version and time check - only existence and (maybe) the difference in path..
- Group by machine name.
Maybe instead of ready query you can advice me some good article like "Composing reports in Report Builder for absolute newbies", I'll appreciate it very much as well.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely, Alexey

Hello, Daniel!
Thank you very much for your answer it was really helpful.
I really would like to delegate this report to programmers department but the problem is that they know nothing about SCCM, so I should explain to them what is SCCM, what is 'device collection' and all other things. Moreover, I've managed to find the list
of functions for SCCM 2012, but I didn't find the list of SQL views for it, found only for SCCM 2007 and I'm not sure that it will suit for 2012.
Well, I'm not too old yet to start learning something new :) , so I'll try to deal with this report myself.
Thank you again for your help.
Sincerely, Alexey.

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