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Neil
Asked: 2010-02-04 10:49:50 +0800 CST

Need to remotely determine what version of Microsoft Office is installed

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I need to find a way to determine what version, if any, of Microsoft Office is installed on every computer on our company network. The best idea I've had was just running a script that searches for the install directory on all machines that are currently connected to the network. I don't think this method is accurate enough and there is probably a better way.

Any ideas?

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2 Answers

  1. You can try Microsoft's free Software Inventory Analyzer

    Microsoft also maintains a list of third-party vendors that create software asset management and auditing applications.

    One notable vendor missing from Microsoft's list is Novell's ZENWorks

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  2. The registry key below holds a list of installed applications:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

    You could write a script using the registry command line tool to search for versions of Microsoft Office. The tricky part will be specifying what machines to scan, you could feed your script a bunch of IP addresses but that might not be ideal.

    Another way to go would be to install a tool which will automatically discover machines on the network and audit the installed software. Spiceworks is a good example of this and is easy to install and use.

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