Tool for assessing patches in Admin Office Install

[James Keirstead, MCSE]

I would like to see a tool, perhaps similar to MBSACLI or HFNETCHK, that
could assess the patches installed in an Administrative Office Install. This
would help in situations where documentation had not been previously kept,
such as consulting on a client site.

 

[Goose[MS]]

James:
There's currenlty no tool that I know of that you can point to an admin
installation and will let you know what updates are installed.
One workaround would be to create a client installation from that admin
point on a test machine and navigate to the Office Update site and select to
see all installed updates, or run the Office Invetory Tool on the test
machine (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011402491033.aspx).
But this approach has some limitations, if there have been any hotfix
patches applied to the admin point or any N-1 updates they won't show up on
either method I mentioned. If you need a more detailed solution I recommend
you contact Microsoft PSS.

Gustavo Muñoz
Software Test Engineer
Microsoft

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[James Keirstead]

Thanks, Goose.

I was actually trying to submit a "wish" through the product feedback site
and didn't realize it was just posting to public USENET. MS used to have
some sort of "wishlist" capability somewhere.

I currently do the assessments with a VirtualPC "clean" system and asses it;
I was just thinking it would be nice to have a proactive rather than
reactive method for assessing the status of an administrative install.

Thanks for your help!

- James

 

[Susan Ramlet]

Hi, James,

This is a good place for suggestions. However, as you've seen, the wishes
do get posted to USENET, too. In the web user interface, you can see that
they're suggestions, but not in other clients.

A recommendation has been made that text be appended to "suggestion" posts
indicating that it was posted to the newsgroup as a suggestion, and how to
vote on it. Not sure if that will be implemented, but it will save some
confusion for people who don't use the web interface.

--
Susan Ramlet
MVP - Office

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