Ahhh, very nice Shane.

Just to make sure I¹m clear here, this is reporting the version of the
Component Plugin, which will always indicate the version of Office
installed, yes?

Thanks, again.

\\Darrin\

On 3/13/07 11:02 AM, I'm sure "sdpalmer" said:

> 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/>

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