#MICROSOFT OFFICE PACKAGES 2010 UPDATE#
For example, are you trying a software inventory, trying to detect update status, seeking information to determine upgrade costs, searching for machines that were possibly missed during an upgrade cycle, or for computers that do not have enough horsepower to stand an upgrade to the most recent edition of Office.Īs you mentioned, using the WMI class, Win32_Product can be a bit slow. One way to do this is to determine why the information is to be collected. Ultimately, one must describe what is meant by “what version of Office” is installed. In addition, problems can occur as to what version of Office is installed because of Professional version, Ultimate edition, Student edition or one of the other editions of Office that consist of different suites of applications. So a mix and match situation could very well exist that would make extrapolating what version of Office is actually installed on the machine problematic. In addition, as you pointed out, it may be that one has Office 2010 installed, has Word 2003 installed as well, and maybe even Outlook 2007. You can detect the “version of Office” by querying the product version of Word / Excel / PowerPoint / Outlook, and so on Unfortunately, I cannot find a global GUID to represent the version of office that is installed. I wrote a blog in 2009 that is on the same theme using Windows PowerShell. The blog post you mentioned was written in 2005 using VBScript. I do not really want to loop through all the available Office products. Nevertheless, how do I use this same technique to query the version of Office? In our organization, we have a mix of different versions of Office, some of which even have different versions of Word on the same machine (for backward testing of some old macros). Hey, Scripting Guy! With reference to one of your previous blog posts, “How Can I Determine Which Version of Word is Installed on a Computer?” I liked how your approach to determine the version of Word is much faster than querying Win32_Product. Locate Your Windows PowerShell Installation.Also learn about locating your Windows PowerShell installation location.
#MICROSOFT OFFICE PACKAGES 2010 HOW TO#
Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to detect your version of Microsoft Office.
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