Systems Management : KACE SMA - Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) MAK Deployment

KACE SMA - Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) MAK Deployment

Hi All,

We are tasked with deploying over 1,000 Win 7 ESU MAK Licenses within our organization. So far the deployment has been smooth but we are finding the occasional client PC that does not have the new MAK Lic installed.

At this point, we are looking for a way to determine exactly how many Win Devices have the new MAK applied. Does anyone know how to search or report using the KACE SMA against the MAK Lic File that the Windows command slmgr /dlv provides? THE Windows Script Host provides Information such as Name: Windows(R) 7, Client-ESU-Year1 add-on-for, Description, Activation ID, Extended PID, partial product Key, etc.

Thank you!

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Thanks for your reply. I took your advice and was able to create a Custom Inventory Rule as you suggested by doing the following:

1. Go to Inventory | Software |New
2. Fill out all fields.
3. Under Custom Inventory Rule enter the following:

shellcommandtextreturn(c:\windows\system32\cscript c:\windows\System32\slmgr.vbs /dli)

I now have this applied to 635 of my Win 7 machines! Although I didn't expect this to run on all devices since I did not Assign a Label and there is no field to add specific devices. I would be curious to see what your experience was in regards to deployment. I was hoping to only deploy this to a specific group of devices but maybe that's not an option with the Custom Inventory Rule? - Dleo_61 4 years ago
CIR are not label related.
They use a standard functionality for inventory.
By default during inventory all software is checked and counted:
Since you built a CIR for a "FAKE" Software it is handling it as it were a real software and runs it on all "supported" OS. Sometimes it makes sense to limit the software item to OS but usually it is not nessesary) - Nico_K 4 years ago
Ok, thanks for that info. We did limit the software to Win 7 only and that seemed to work. Any advice for reporting against the Partial Product key that is now reporting under the Custom inventory Field? Thanks again for your help with this! - Dleo_61 4 years ago
if you open the reporting wizard you have now a field with the name of your CIR, so you simply can do a report with the filter "CIR FIELD" "containts" "your serial" - Nico_K 4 years ago
Works great!! Thanks again. - Dleo_61 4 years ago