i am doing wmi application in c#...
i have to do patch management i don't know how to find the missing patches i am retrieving the installed patches using win32_quickfixeng.. class but i dont know to how to find the missing patches on the system

pls help me

Through WMI one can only retrieve a list of all the installed patches on a machine, WMI cannot be used to retrieve the patches which need to be installed but are not. As suggested already, it's a better solution to have a webservice which gives a list of all the patches to be installed which can be filtered based on the patches that have already been installed obtained from the win32_quickfixengineering class exposed by WMI to get a list of patches which have to be installed.

Hi,

How do you judge whether a patch is missing or not on the system. What is the criteria?

If you mean the patches from Windows Update, you can consider using WUA APIs, instead of WMI.

Using WUA to Scan for Updates Offline

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa387290.aspx

In Wmi we have win32_quickfixeng class we can find installed fixes in the both local and remote system using this class. if we can get all the patches form web service or some else....
we can find out missing patches i think ... so
is there any other way to do this

hai all
is there any web services for finding the Microsoft new patches
how to find the new patch form that has released by the Microsoft.
or if any other method i have to fallow
help me

Hi,

Iam also figuring out a way to get the new patches from Microsoft.

Please share with me if you had any luck finding out how to do

the same.

Through WMI one can only retrieve a list of all the installed patches on a machine, WMI cannot be used to retrieve the patches which need to be installed but are not. As suggested already, it's a better solution to have a webservice which gives a list of all the patches to be installed which can be filtered based on the patches that have already been installed obtained from the win32_quickfixengineering class exposed by WMI to get a list of patches which have to be installed.