Programatically discover installations of MS Office

[Rilescat]

I need to audit how many copies of OFFICE my company has installed to ensure that our licensing is up to par.

Anybody have any thoughts how I can do that with software? I have 9 sites over 100 miles and 1200 users, so I would like to avoid SneakerNetting my way around.

Sending emails asking people if they have it isn't good enough.

Thanks

 

[cKGunslinger]

Can you just run through the list of PC IP's and check each one's registry or something? I don't know Windows programming, but I assume an Administrator would be able to do this. I assume you searched Microsoft's site for any tips/tools.

 

[EagleKeeper]

There are commercial audit tools out there

 

[SagaLore]

Sure easy enough. Do you need to find out what version it is, or just simply having any install of Office will suffice?

I will write you a script. PM me please.

 

[Rilescat]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
Sure easy enough. Do you need to find out what version it is, or just simply having any install of Office will suffice?

I will write you a script. PM me please.

Done Sir.

 

[Rilescat]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
There are commercial audit tools out there

What would some of those commercial tools be?