Powershell: Get Office Software

momurda

Hi
Have you looked at this.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb977556.aspx
MAP
THis seems to be a tool from MS that does what you want.

scottalanmiller

@Texkonc said in Powershell: Get Office Software:

@scottalanmiller said in Powershell: Get Office Software:

@Texkonc said in Powershell: Get Office Software:

Once I figure out how

Just start a line with four spaces.

Or use back ticks, three of them, on the line before and after the code.

No Dice
and What?

How did it not work? Just put four spaces in front of your code.

scottalanmiller

I just did it as an example. You can't have it still tied to the line above, you need to hit enter to separate it. The way that you had it, it was four spaces between that line and the line before, it wasn't a line on its own yet.

Obsolesce

I'm not sure of your end goal, so this way of querying the office version may not suit your needs... but here it is anyways:

I query the registry to find the version of office on a PC in some scripts:

reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\O365ProPlusRetail - en-us" /v DisplayVersion

reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\O365ProPlusRetail - en-us" /v DisplayName

And if you like to get dirty:

reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall" /s /f *Office*

momurda

@momurda
I just tried using the MAP toolkit from MS as i thought it would be a useful inventory tool. You know, since MS makes their money selling software, you would think they would make a tool that would let you inventory their software and tell you license info.
It is just another half assed .exe from MS that really does nothing useful.
It tells you how many pcs you have that are 'ready' for a certain product, not what is currently installed, no license keys, nothing useful.
Seriously what is the point of this?

Texkonc

@momurda said in Powershell: Get Office Software:

@momurda
I just tried using the MAP toolkit from MS as i thought it would be a useful inventory tool. You know, since MS makes their money selling software, you would think they would make a tool that would let you inventory their software and tell you license info.
It is just another half assed .exe from MS that really does nothing useful.
It tells you how many pcs you have that are 'ready' for a certain product, not what is currently installed, no license keys, nothing useful.
Seriously what is the point of this?

Shocker...

scottalanmiller

@momurda said in Powershell: Get Office Software:

@momurda
I just tried using the MAP toolkit from MS as i thought it would be a useful inventory tool. You know, since MS makes their money selling software, you would think they would make a tool that would let you inventory their software and tell you license info.
It is just another half assed .exe from MS that really does nothing useful.
It tells you how many pcs you have that are 'ready' for a certain product, not what is currently installed, no license keys, nothing useful.
Seriously what is the point of this?

Making licensing easy makes it hard to oversell.

Texkonc

@Tim_G said in Powershell: Get Office Software:

And if you like to get dirty:

reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall" /s /f *Office*

The best one, but need to run it against remote machines. Issue with this one, is not all machines might not have remote registry on. Hence a WMI call is better.

black3dynamite

@Texkonc said in Powershell: Get Office Software:

@Tim_G said in Powershell: Get Office Software:
And if you like to get dirty:
reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall" /s /f *Office*
The best one, but need to run it against remote machines. Issue with this one, is not all machines might not have remote registry on. Hence a WMI call is better.

You do something like this.

Invoke-Command -ComputerName HOSTNAME -Credential domain\username `
-ScriptBlock {
cmd /k reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall" /s /f Office
}

Texkonc

@black3dynamite said in Powershell: Get Office Software:

@Texkonc said in Powershell: Get Office Software:
@Tim_G said in Powershell: Get Office Software:
And if you like to get dirty:
reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall" /s /f *Office*
The best one, but need to run it against remote machines. Issue with this one, is not all machines might not have remote registry on. Hence a WMI call is better.
You do something like this.

Invoke-Command -ComputerName HOSTNAME -Credential domain\username `
-ScriptBlock {
cmd /k reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall" /s /f Office
}

I have about 50 machines, I am not going to enter the host name everytime, I need it to pull from a list.

Obsolesce

I spent a decent amount of time on this out of curiosity and finally got something together that I actually tested with various domain PCs, and works:

$computers = Get-Content -Path C:\computers.txt
ForEach ($computer in $computers)
{
    Invoke-Command -ComputerName $computer -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue {Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -like '*Microsoft Office*'} | Export-CSV -NoTypeInformation "C:\test.csv"}
}

I suppose you can figure out how to change it to what will work in your environment if you have issues connecting to computers. This should get you going.

Texkonc

That is a great script.
I ran it on a 2012 nonR2 and a 2008R2, and my desktop win10. I can not get it to write the output to a file on any of the 3. If I comment out the output to a file, it screen prints fine.

black3dynamite

Try this.

$computers = Get-Content -Path C:\computers.txt
ForEach ($computer in $computers)
{
    $results = Invoke-Command -ComputerName $computer -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue {
    Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | `
    Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate | `
    Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -like '*Microsoft Office*'}
    }
 $results | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -Path "C:\test.csv"
}

Texkonc

@black3dynamite said in Powershell: Get Office Software:

$computers = Get-Content -Path C:\computers.txt
ForEach ($computer in $computers)
{
$results = Invoke-Command -ComputerName $computer -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue {
Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall* -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate |
Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -like 'Microsoft Office'}
}
$results | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -Path "C:\test.csv"
}

That creates the file, but the file ends up blank

black3dynamite

@Tim_G said in Powershell: Get Office Software:

I spent a decent amount of time on this out of curiosity and finally got something together that I actually tested with various domain PCs, and works:
$computers = Get-Content -Path C:\computers.txt
ForEach ($computer in $computers)
{
    Invoke-Command -ComputerName $computer -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue {Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -like '*Microsoft Office*'} | Export-CSV -NoTypeInformation "C:\test.csv"}
}
I suppose you can figure out how to change it to what will work in your environment if you have issues connecting to computers. This should get you going.

The test.csv file ends up showing up on each computer.

Obsolesce

@black3dynamite said in Powershell: Get Office Software:

@Tim_G said in Powershell: Get Office Software:
I spent a decent amount of time on this out of curiosity and finally got something together that I actually tested with various domain PCs, and works:
$computers = Get-Content -Path C:\computers.txt
ForEach ($computer in $computers)
{
    Invoke-Command -ComputerName $computer -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue {Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -like '*Microsoft Office*'} | Export-CSV -NoTypeInformation "C:\test.csv"}
}
I suppose you can figure out how to change it to what will work in your environment if you have issues connecting to computers. This should get you going.
The test.csv file ends up showing up on each computer.

Yeah change the path to a network location.

Obsolesce

@Texkonc said in Powershell: Get Office Software:

@black3dynamite said in Powershell: Get Office Software:

$computers = Get-Content -Path C:\computers.txt
ForEach ($computer in $computers)
{
$results = Invoke-Command -ComputerName $computer -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue {
Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall* -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate |
Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -like 'Microsoft Office'}
}
$results | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -Path "C:\test.csv"
}

That creates the file, but the file ends up blank

You need to include the stars on each side of 'Microsoft Office'

Obsolesce

I made a few changes, mainly appending data output to a central CSV file:

$computers = Get-Content -Path "C:\computers.txt"
ForEach ($computer in $computers)
{
    Invoke-Command -ComputerName $computer -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -ScriptBlock {Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -like '*Microsoft Office*'} | Export-CSV -NoTypeInformation -Append -Path "\\YOURCOMPUTER\c$\test.csv"}
}

Obsolesce

@Tim_G said in Powershell: Get Office Software:

@Texkonc said in Powershell: Get Office Software:

@black3dynamite said in Powershell: Get Office Software:

$computers = Get-Content -Path C:\computers.txt
ForEach ($computer in $computers)
{
$results = Invoke-Command -ComputerName $computer -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue {
Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall* -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate |
Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -like 'Microsoft Office'}
}
$results | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -Path "C:\test.csv"
}

That creates the file, but the file ends up blank

You need to include the stars on each side of 'Microsoft Office'

Nevermind, the website uses it as italics.

JaredBusch

@Tim_G said in Powershell: Get Office Software:

@Tim_G said in Powershell: Get Office Software:

@Texkonc said in Powershell: Get Office Software:

@black3dynamite said in Powershell: Get Office Software:

$computers = Get-Content -Path C:\computers.txt
ForEach ($computer in $computers)
{
$results = Invoke-Command -ComputerName $computer -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue {
Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall* -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate |
Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -like 'Microsoft Office'}
}
$results | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -Path "C:\test.csv"
}

That creates the file, but the file ends up blank

You need to include the stars on each side of 'Microsoft Office'

Nevermind, the website uses it as italics.

Escape them with a backslash

You need to include the stars on each side of '*Microsoft Office*'

or put them in single backticks.
You need to include the stars on each side of '*Microsoft Office*'
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