You can send it using the ARD Send Unix command (sending it as root) using
osascript command-line utility. As an example I sent the following:
osascript -e 'tell application "Finder"
set computerName to do shell script "scutil --get ComputerName"
set officePath to ""
try
set officePath to (container of application file id "MSWD") as
Unicode text
end try
try
set officePath to (container of application file id "XCEL") as
Unicode text
end try
try
set officePath to (container of application file id "OPIM") as
Unicode text
end try
try
set officePath to (container of application file id "PPT3") as
Unicode text
end try
if officePath is not "" then
set officeVersion to short version of (info for alias (officePath &
"Office:Microsoft Component Plugin"))
if exists alias (officePath & "Microsoft Entourage") then
return computerName & ": Office " & officeVersion & " is
installed with Entourage"
else
return computerName & ": Office " & officeVersion & " is
installed without Entourage"
end if
else
return computerName & ": Office is not installed"
end if
end tell'
Since there is no GUI the user doesn't know this is running in the
background. ARD returns this as a nice report for all of the Macs you send
it to that can be saved as a text file. This is a very quick and dirty hack
since we had to get this out right away to check for the Office DST patch.
We also had some Macs without Entourage installed so I checked for that as
well. The combination of the ARD Send Unix command has been very useful for
me. I also used similar scripts to check our anti-virus version and OS
versions in an nice readable report.
Shane
Shane Palmer
Information Technology Services
Iowa State University
On 3/13/07 9:12 AM, "Pertschi, Darrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> That Find Version script is quite nice! Thanks for the heads up.
>
> Now, can anyone suggest how to modify it so that I could send it from ARD and
> receive the output nice and clean?
>
> \\Darrin\
>
>
>
>
> On 3/12/07 10:10 PM, I'm sure "Diane Ross" said:
>
>> On 3/12/07 7:04 PM, "Scott Haneda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> If an email header says Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.1.051004
>>> Is that V.x or 2004, and if it is 2004, will simply software updating it fix
>>> any DST issues?
>>
>> 11.2.1 is Entourage 2004. The actual fix for DST was in 11.3.3 but there is
>> an additional updater that should also be installed. 11.3.4.
>>
>> Get the script that tells what version of Office is installed and what
>> specific applications are actually updated. Note: not all applications are
>> updated with upgrade.
>>
>> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/script/fav_scripts.html#favscript_findVersion
>>>
>>
>>> .051004
>>
>> This is a build number. This is 2005 Oct. 4.
>> --
>> Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
>> Entourage Help Page
>> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
>> One of the top five MS Entourage resources listed on the Entourage Blog.
> <http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>
