Cannot Query Office 07 in SMS

[net1994]

Hope you guys can help. I just used SMS 2003 to send out Office Professional
Plus 2007. But something is very odd, as I can’t seem to find the software
via an SMS query. Because of an issue with how the software went out, I
can’t rely on the Advertisement status messages. Software Inventory has been
on all the clients, so the data is there.

I am trying to query machines I have confirmed to have it installed. I
tried ‘Add/Remove Display Name’ as ‘Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007’
like it appears in everyone’s Add/Remove programs Results are returned, but
the # of machines reported is far below what it should. I’m not convinced
100%. The only seemingly accurate results I get are querying by filename and
version (i.e. EXCEL.EXE, Ver. 12.0.*). But I know this probably isn’t the
best way to do it and I am rather uncomfortable with this.

I also queried Add/Remove Programs Display Name= ‘2007 Office System’, but
this returns results that I know do not have O2K7 Pro Plus. People got
Project Pro 2007 installed a few months ago, and I think it’s showing as
‘2007 Microsoft Office System’ when running a query because of this?

Can anyone tell me what is the exact, bullet proof query to run for MS
Office 2007 Pro Plus?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Try microsoft.public.deployment.desktop or m.p.d.server for your problem.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, net1994 asked:

| Hope you guys can help. I just used SMS 2003 to send out Office
| Professional
| Plus 2007. But something is very odd, as I can’t seem to find the
| software
| via an SMS query. Because of an issue with how the software went
| out, I
| can’t rely on the Advertisement status messages. Software
| Inventory has been
| on all the clients, so the data is there.
|
| I am trying to query machines I have confirmed to have it installed.
| I
| tried ‘Add/Remove Display Name’ as ‘Microsoft Office
| Professional Plus 2007’ like it appears in everyone’s Add/Remove
| programs Results are returned, but
| the # of machines reported is far below what it should. I’m not
| convinced 100%. The only seemingly accurate results I get are
| querying by filename and version (i.e. EXCEL.EXE, Ver. 12.0.*). But
| I know this probably isn’t the
| best way to do it and I am rather uncomfortable with this.
|
| I also queried Add/Remove Programs Display Name= ‘2007 Office
| System’, but
| this returns results that I know do not have O2K7 Pro Plus. People
| got
| Project Pro 2007 installed a few months ago, and I think it’s
| showing as
| ‘2007 Microsoft Office System’ when running a query because of
| this?
|
| Can anyone tell me what is the exact, bullet proof query to run for MS
| Office 2007 Pro Plus?