Programatically discover installations of MS Office

Rilescat

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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

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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.
 

SagaLore

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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

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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.