MBSA XML PARSER 1.0.0.0 released
MBSA XML PARSER 1.0.0.0 has been released.
This program helps with identification of missing Windows updates by parsing Microsoft Baseline Security Adviser(MBSA) XML report file. It has been specifically designed to analyze output of mbsacli.exe /xmlout.
Head over to MBSA XML PARSER page for more information.
Using MBSACLI.EXE
MBSACLI.EXE is a command line tool that allows you to scan a computer for missing Microsoft updates. It's extremely useful when you have a lot of computers to check. Unlike MBSA (Microsoft Baseline Security Advisor), it does not need to be installed on your target computer. Here's how to use MBSACLI.EXE
There are two files that you need to get from MBSA. MBSACLI.EXE and WUSSCAN.DLL. You can either copy them from a computer that has a full version of MBSA installed or extract them from the installation file.
Either way you need to download MBSA first. You can do so at the following URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=02be8aee-a3b6-4d94-b1c9-4b1989e0900c
If you have decided to install MBSA go ahead and execute the file you have downloaded and follow the instructions. If you have installed MBSA to the default directory, navigate to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2\ and copy MBSACLI.EXE and WUSSCAN.DLL somewhere else.
If you don't want to install MBSA you can extract it using any good archiving software. One of the extracted files will be called DATA.CAB. You will need to extract that file once again. Inside you will find MBSACLI.EXE and WUSSCAN.DLL and just like before copy these files somewhere else.
There is one more file needed and it's called WSUSSCN2.CAB. This file contains information about all the updates available for Windows operating system. You can download this file from the following URL:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=76054
Save it to the directory you copied MBSACLI.EXE and WUSSCAN.DLL to.
At this point you are ready to scan your first computer. Copy the three files (MBSACLI.EXE, WUSSCAN.DLL, and WSUSSCN2.CAB) to the computer you would like to scan, and execute the following command on that computer:
mbsacli /xmlout /catalog wsusscn2.cab > results.xml
If everything worked correctly you will now have a new file called RESULTS.XML. This file contains information about missing updates on the computer you have just scanned.
At this point you can use MBSA XML PARSER to "translate" RESULTS.XML into English.