Office 2013 x64 mis-identified

[luxor]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2203980/detect-whether-office-2010-is-32bit-or-64bit-via-the-registry

Lots of approaches to detect 32/64Bit but not all seem to work due to the multitude of office versions and custom installs without Outlook.

From my (old) coding background.. isn't there a better way to scan for Office exe's like winword and/or others and determine te arch type by exe header types ? Although Microsoft itself seems be able to do it properly ... ?

http://superuser.com/questions/358434/how-to-check-if-a-binary-is-32-or-64-bit-on-windows

Extra question : if wsusoffline only does SP's and critical updates, would it be possible to add the possibility to collect ALL updates ? So you have the 'complete update collection' of selected products ?

[WSUSUpdateAdmin]

Hi.

Couldn't we safely assume that on an x64 system with Office installed in Program Files, it must be an x64 version? 32bit versions usually install into Program Files (x86), AFAIK the 64bit version uses both.

Of course, mixed installations would blow up all detection attempts...


Edit: Maybe it's possible to detect through a WMIC call? Like 'WMic product list' that shows installed programs?

Short: Thanks, thought about a similar way to improve the ofc arch detection. Will check in soon.

Cheers
Torsten

[boco]

WSUSOU only installs security-critical updates. Optional, feature and non-critical patches aren't listed in MS' catalog and thus left out.

OK, but the ones you see are 'belangrijk' which is dutch for important or critical, don't know exactly what the ENU version of Windows states there in WU... It are certainly no 'additional' updates..

I didn't see the image, sorry (my system blocks elements from third-party servers by default). You must know that even many 'Important' updates are not included in the catalog. The catalog does not satisfy Windows Update, but it should satisfy the MSBA. Thus, check with MSBA; if that one says 'OK' WSUSOU worked.

Extra question : if wsusoffline only does SP's and critical updates, would it be possible to add the possibility to collect ALL updates ? So you have the 'complete update collection' of selected products ?

Only manually. MS doesn't provide a catalog with all patches included.

[luxor]

Ah ok, no problem. So besides WSUSO, WU is still a 'must'.

Anyway, WSUSO is a great tool, and now the x64 office issue is 'fixed', there is not much more you can add if MS doesn't supply the necessary resources...

Great work, keep it up

Thx for the support.

[WSUSUpdateAdmin]

Best documentation: The code!

Old version:

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Private Function OfficeArchitecture(objShell, strVersionInfix)
Dim strRegVal

  OfficeArchitecture = "x86"
  strRegVal = RegRead(objShell, strRegKeyOfficePrefix_Mx86 & strVersionInfix & strRegKeyOfficeSuffix_Outlook & strRegValOfficeArchitecture)
  If strRegVal <> "" Then
    OfficeArchitecture = strRegVal
  End If
End Function


New version:

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Private Function OfficeArchitecture(objShell, strOSArch, strVersionInfix, strOfficeInstPath)
Dim strRegVal

  OfficeArchitecture = strOSArch
  If strOSArch = "x86" Then
    Exit Function
  End If
  strRegVal = RegRead(objShell, strRegKeyOfficePrefix_Mx86 & strVersionInfix & strRegKeyOfficeSuffix_Outlook & strRegValOfficeArchitecture)
  If strRegVal <> "" Then
    OfficeArchitecture = strRegVal
    Exit Function
  End If
  If InStr(strOfficeInstPath, "x86") > 0 Then
    OfficeArchitecture = "x86"
    Exit Function
  End If
End Function


[WSUSUpdateAdmin]

http://trac.wsusoffline.net/browser/trunk (r609).
GT

[luxor]

:arrow: http://trac.wsusoffline.net/browser/trunk (r609).
GT

Can I copy them over my existing WSUSO folder or should I wait for the next release ?

[WSUSUpdateAdmin]

Hi.

You can download it using http://trac.wsusoffline.net/changeset/6 ... format=zip and you may want to have a look at viewtopic.php?f=7&t=43.

RTW