Help with Office CDs

[Judith Perry]

I am the tech support person at a university where I support all the faculty
and grad students’ computers. I inherited a number of Microsoft CD’s from my
predecessor, that belong to various computers - the problem is, he didn't
label the CDs so I don't know which CD belongs to which computer. I have
CD’s for various Windows operating systems, and various versions of office –
but I don’t know which Product ID’s belong to which CD’s.

Luckily, my predecessor did put labels on each of the computers with the
Product ID’s on them, but failed to label the CD’s with the Product ID’s.
Since the CD cases have long since disappeared, I have no idea which CD’s go
with a particular Product code.

The problem really appeared earlier this week when I had to re-install
Windows 98 on an older computer, and although I had the Product ID that was
used on that computer before – I also had 10 CD’s of Windows 98, it took me 5
tries to get the right CD to work with the Product ID that was on the
computer.

My question is this - is there anyway to be able to find out the Product ID
from the CD itself so I can match up CD's and computers? I finally have a
list of all the computers in the department along with what software they are
running and the Product ID's for that software- now I just need to match up
the CD's to the Product ID’s.

Any help would be greatly appreciated –

Thanks!

Judith Perry

 

[Chris Schatte]

Judith Perry,
You may have some luck with these utilities:
http://www.magicaljellybean.com/

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

If your successful, you should keep an inventory record (print copy as well)
for future reference...

Chris Schatte

use the Office Online web based newsreader here:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
In Office System 2003 applications:
Help/Assistance Pane/open Communities