Question : Export Windows installed updates to text format for comparison?

I need to compare patch levels between two Windows 2003 servers.

Is there a way to export the installed updates to a text-based format, to compare the two? I have Powershell installed if that is helpful.

Answer : Export Windows installed updates to text format for comparison?

Export them to CSV instead, much easier...

e.g.

Get-WMIObject Win32_QuickFixEngineering -ComputerName "Server2" | Select-Object HotFixID | Export-CSV "Server2.csv"

Then you can do this:

$Server1 = Import-CSV "Server1.csv"
$Server2 = Import-CSV "Server2.csv"

And finally you're back to compare object again :)

Chris