LIst installed programs on Network Machines

LIst installed programs on Network Machines
I want to:

1) Get a list of all machines on a network (Can do that ok)

2) For each machine, get a list of installed applicaions.

Actually only want to check if a machine got Analysis Services installed, so if you know how to get straight to that it will be really cool.

Cheers and keep up the good work.

One way I can think of is getting all apps from this reg path :

Code:

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE

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Hi,

Thanx for your reply.

Is there any way one can connect to remote machine registries in code?

I know one can do this manually from the registry editor, provided you do have access to the remote machine's registry.

So guess I'm actually asking for a way to "hack" into remote registries? Hmmm...does not sound too good....

Thanx 4 u'r time dude!

http://forums.aspfree.com/t22151/s.h...Registry+Using

If you have rights set to read remote computer's registry , then you can't call this "hack" . Some web services make use of this . It's legal and no body can say it's not good .;)

Hi,
Thanx for your replies. Should have been more clear on what this is for.

I'm busy writing an application that will be installed on user's machines whom obviously do not have adim rights on any machines on the network

When the app start I want to get all machines on the network and then check on each whether Analysis Services were installed.
Then list all "Available Analysis Servers" on the network.

Don't know if this make any sense?
Any ideas?

Currently I get all machines, and then attempt to connect using DSO (DSO Server.Connect(MachineName)) and check for an error. However this just takes too long.

Would have been great if we had a ListAvailableServer function as with SQLDMO so trying to figure out my own way of doing things.

Cheers!