I wonder how to determine whether a specific Windows Update package is installed in the target machine, lets say for example the Windows Update package with name KB2919355.
Exists a built-in feature to check that? If not, what would be the required code to determine it? Maybe messing with registry, or maybe a cleanest and/or secure way?
Pseudo-Code:
[Setup]
...
[Files]
Source: {app}\*; DestDir: {app}; Check: IsPackageInstalled('KB2919355')
[Code]
function IsPackageInstalled(packageName): Boolean;
begin
...
Result := ...;
end;
function IsKBInstalled(KB: string): Boolean;
var
WbemLocator: Variant;
WbemServices: Variant;
WQLQuery: string;
WbemObjectSet: Variant;
begin
WbemLocator := CreateOleObject('WbemScripting.SWbemLocator');
WbemServices := WbemLocator.ConnectServer('', 'root\CIMV2');
WQLQuery := 'select * from Win32_QuickFixEngineering where HotFixID = ''' + KB + '''';
WbemObjectSet := WbemServices.ExecQuery(WQLQuery);
Result := (not VarIsNull(WbemObjectSet)) and (WbemObjectSet.Count > 0);
end;
Use like:
if IsKBInstalled('KB2919355') then
begin
Log('KB2919355 is installed');
end
else
begin
Log('KB2919355 is not installed');
end;
Credits:
- The WMI query for updates:
How can I query my system via command line to see if a KB patch is installed?
- Using WMI from Inno Setup:
@TLama's answer to Inno Setup Pascal Script to search for running process.
WbemScripting.SWbemLocator
wasn't working for me when I was testing my installer on Windows 7. So I took a different approach and connected to the WUA (Windows Update Agent):
function IsUpdateInstalled(KB: String): Boolean;
var
UpdateSession: Variant;
UpdateSearcher: Variant;
SearchResult: Variant;
I: Integer;
begin
UpdateSession := CreateOleObject('Microsoft.Update.Session');
UpdateSearcher := UpdateSession.CreateUpdateSearcher()
SearchResult := UpdateSearcher.Search('IsInstalled=1')
for I := 0 to SearchResult.Updates.Count - 1 do
begin
if SearchResult.Updates.Item(I).KBArticleIDs.Item(0) = KB then
begin
Result := true;
Exit;
end;
end;
Result := false;
end;
Invocation would be as follows:
if IsUpdateInstalled('3020369') then
...