quick command or batch script to determine Windows and Office version

Question

I need to do a software audit of more than 300 computers that are neither on the same network, or owned by the same company.

Is there an command or small program (that can be run without installing) that I can email to the end-users to run that will output the MS Windows and MS Office versions?

Answer 1

One possible way of obtaining the current Windows Version and Microsoft Office version is to query the system registry entries using command line.

To get the windows version using System registry , use the following command:

reg query "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" /v "ProductName"

This will give an output which can be parsed to get the current windows version/name.

To get the current office version , use:

reg query "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Application\CurVer"

The output of this command gives the office version in number format such as 14, 15, etc.

Parse the output to get the version number and match against the list of existing Microsoft office versions to get the name of the version installed:

Office 97   -  7.0
Office 98   -  8.0
Office 2000 -  9.0
Office XP   - 10.0
Office 2003 - 11.0
Office 2007 - 12.0
Office 2010 - 14.0 
Office 2013 - 15.0
Office 2016 - 16.0

Hope this helps!!

Answer 2

@echo off
setlocal enableDelayedExpansion
for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%O in ('ftype ^|findstr /r /I "\\OFFICE[0-9]*" 2^>nul') do (
    set "verp=%%~O"
    goto :end_for
)
:end_for

for %%P in (%verp%) do (
    set "off_path=%%~dpP"
    for %%V in ("!off_path:~0,-1!") do (

     set "office_version=%%~nV"
     goto :end_for2
    )
)
:end_for2
echo %office_version%
endlocal

does NOT require administrator permissions and works on Windows XP and above

Answer 3

I use this to grab version 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013.

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

for /f "tokens=3 delims=." %%a in ('reg query "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Application\CurVer"') do set reg=%%a

set /a i=0
for %%b in (11 12 14 15) do (
  if %%b == %reg% goto setver
  set /a i+=1
)

:setver
set /a n=0
for %%c in (2003 2007 2010 2013) do (
  if !n! == !i! set ver=%%c && goto endloop
  set /a n+=1
)

:endloop
echo Microsoft Version: %ver%
echo.
endlocal

:end
pause

Answer 4

And 1 more using npocmaka's code but adding in a map to make it more user friendly:

@echo off
setlocal

call :GetOfficeVer
endlocal
exit /b

:GetOfficeVer
::@echo off
setlocal enableDelayedExpansion
for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%O in (
    'ftype ^|findstr /r /I "\\OFFICE[0-9]*" 2^>nul') do (
        set "verp=%%~O"
        goto :end_for
)
:end_for

for %%P in (%verp%) do (
        set "off_path=%%~dpP"
        for %%V in ("!off_path:~-3,2!") do (
            set "off_ver=%%~nV"
            call :Map !off_ver! && exit /b
        )
)
:Map
set "v=%1"
set "map=11-2003;12-2007;14-2010;15-2013"
call set v=%%map:*%v%-=%%
set v=%v:;=&rem.%
echo Microsoft Office Version: %v%
endlocal
exit /b

Answer 5

To get the office version under Windows 10, this is quite elegant:

for /F "tokens=3 delims=." %%O in ('reg query HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Application\CurVer') do set _officeVer=%%O

Does not require admin rights and works also on xp and above