Application installed by bigfix

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(imported topic written by Shrawan91)

Hi All,

I have a requirement, I need to know whether a particular software has been deployed using bigfix. I mean, when we install ms office, it creates a local install source and in the registry it shows the install source as msocache. I want to know that the installation process was started by bigfix or started using bigfix. I know that local install source will be created even if we deploy using bigfix but how can I know that it was initiated by bigfix.

Things that I have already done are:

1)Tried to use logs but since client maintains only 10 days logs, I could not use it.

2)Expired and stopped actions are deleted/removed

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hi Shrawan,

In general, Windows does not provide a way for you to know for sure which application installed it. However, if you want to make a simple small change to your installation Fixlet, then you can add something like this to the bottom of your Fixlet:

regset “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BigFix\InstalledApplication” “Office10”="{now}"

Which will record when the agent installed the software in the registry on the computer.

Ben

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(imported comment written by Shrawan91)

Thanks,

Ben