End of extended support for Office 2007 on October 10, 2017 Office

visitor said:

How do you generate a list of installed Office updates on a system?

Seeing a list of installed Office updates is easy in the Control Panel.....



...but there's no way to export that to a file other than reading the list and typing it yourself. To generate a list you can save to a file would require a PowerShell script, such as these.

GitHub - tomarbuthnot/Get-MicrosoftUpdate: Shows all Microsoft Updates, not just Windows Updates like Get-HotFix

https://social.technet.microsoft.com...w7itproinstall

Bree said:

Seeing a list of installed Office updates is easy in the Control Panel.....



...but there's no way to export that to a file other than reading the list and typing it yourself. To generate a list you can save to a file would require a PowerShell script, such as these.

GitHub - tomarbuthnot/Get-MicrosoftUpdate: Shows all Microsoft Updates, not just Windows Updates like Get-HotFix

https://social.technet.microsoft.com...w7itproinstall

Screen dump contents and use OCR app?

visitor said:

How do you generate a list of installed Office updates on a system?

Assuming you have an older Office version such as my MSOffice 2007 [because current Office versions do not seem to work in the same way]:-

Step 1 - Run this Powershell PS1 file to create a list on your Desktop

Code:

$ThisUserDesktop = [environment]::GetFolderPath('Desktop')
Get-ItemProperty  `
HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\*  `
| Where {$_.DisplayName -like "*Office*"}  `
| Select-Object DisplayName, HelpLink  `
| Export-Csv -Path $ThisUserDesktop\OfficeUpdatesList.csv -NoTypeInformation

It is based on code posted by 1981DMC in getting list of installed Office packages - SpiceWorks
I have not tested this with any Desktop paths containing special characters such as ampersands [&].

Step 2 - Open the list in Excel, freeze the top row, add AutoFilter to the top row so you can filter by blanks in the HelpLink column and delete those rows [those rows are not updates]. Save the file as an Excel file.

Step 3 - What you are left with are Office updates. There are a few repetitions in the list, because Windows records some of them twice, so use AutoFilter to sort them into DisplayName alphabetical order so you can spot and delete many of the repetitions. Control panel, Programs & features, View installed updates also repeats some entries.

Step 4 - Use normal Excel text manipulation functions to extract KB numbers into a column of their own. The HelpLink column is probably the easiest one to work with.

Step 5 - You could then be cautious and check against the list in the Office 'group' of Control panel, Programs & features, View installed updates to check for additional entries to add to OfficeUpdatesList.xlsx. I have just done so and the list produced in Step 1 matched completely [once you decide that repetitions in either list do not matter].

I have no idea if this procedure applies to later versions of MSOffice. I only have MSOffice 2007.


All the best,
Denis

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Wasn't this a whole time ago and why is this still relevant? - confused! -

RingTailCoon said:

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Wasn't this a whole time ago and why is this still relevant? - confused! -

It's relevant because, even though support ended a long time ago, Windows Update should still be providing Office updates up to and including the last issued update. Some still use Office 2007, and would want to check if they are as up to date as possible.

In fact, Windows Update still services earlier versions too. Last week I re-installed Office 2003 on one machine and Windows Update promptly found 27 updates for it.

What do you mean "whereas"? Don't the lists match?

Denis

Yes, if you had downloaded Office updates [.msp files] but not run them then WU would have downloaded them again.
If you had run them then WU should not have repeated them.

Your CP installed updates screenshot also includes some repetitions. I've no idea what causes them.

Denis