Verification Update Installed: Registry, Update ID, Add/Remove

[Chad Harris]

I'm using Office 2003 Pro on Win XP Pro SP2. I recently installed a version
of Windows XP SP2. I had an adventuresome road getting BCM associated with
Outlook, and I had to overcome some setup errors. Then I believe I
installed all the updates (and have them in my downloads folder but no view
will confirm if they are actually installed). Add/Remove is no help
because under MOS 2003 it lists two items:

One is called "Update" with no size or other information. When you click
on it in Add/Remove you find out it can't be removed and you get handy
support information which is an "Update ID":
FC9622F8-9F2A-48C4-9134-0534789AED69. That's all it tells you--no size--no
name--no nothin'.

The other update tells me it was installed today--so I know it is the Excel
Update I just installed. The Powerpoint add in is (surprise!! actually
labled what it is "Presentation Broadcast") but that takes all the fun out
of the guesswork. I know why items that have no lable have no
label--because MSFT thinks that is fun.

I wanted to verify that I have the Office Critical Update KB28041
installed. I think I installed it, but did a reinstall from Add/Remove
because I was having trouble getting the Excel Update in. After the
"reinstall"--I didn't choose detect and repair, everything seemed to be
working, so I set about installing all the updates available. The Excel
Update went in fine this time. When I tried to install the Office update
mentioned, it said "the expected version of this product was not found on
your system." This could mean that it's already in--but something along the
lines "it's already in" would have been more explicit.

I searched for the KB in the registry, and was led to

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1708537768-746137067-1060284298-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComDlg32\OpenSaveMRU\*

The reg key "open folder" designation on the left pane is * and the D_Word
value on the right pane is "b". When I right click "b" to modify it what I
see in the value data is E:\Downloads\Office2003-kb828041-client-enu.exe.

It would seem I have a match.

Does this confirm I have it installed? Does anyone know what that Update
ID # means and if there is some where I can go to use it as verification? I
can't think of any other reason a search would lead me there, and is there
any convenient place in the registry where all the Office updates are
locates. I have found a few keys in the past for verifying OS hotfixes.


Thanks much,

Chad Harris

 

[Chad Harris]

In followup to the above post, I'm wondering:

1) Is there a central location in the registry to inventory what Office 2003
or other version updates are installed if other versions were in on some
machines?
2) I want to know the registry key locations of Updates, but I also wonder
if I could use this tool to inventory for Office Updates?

Office Update Inventory Tool 2.0

http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/2003/journ/offutoolv2.htm

http://office.microsoft.com/OfficeUpdate/catalog/inventory/InventoryCatalog.html

If I use install the Office Inventory tool, it seems that you need to
download both of these:

Toolbox The files for the Office Update Inventory Tool are packaged in two
self-extracting executable files (Invcm.exe and Invcif.exe) that you can
download here or from the Office 2003 Editions Resource Kit Toolb

Invcm.exe version 2.0 updated November 11, 2003 Approx. file size:
230 KB

Invcif.exe the latest released version
Approx. file size: 270 KB




Chad Harris

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