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/>
