Detect Outlook on network computers?

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Waffle

Hi all,

I was wondering if there is a tool to detect computers on a network
that have any version of Outlook installed?

Ikkie
 
I am pretty sure their is no utility specifically designed to do this.
But, there are several others way to do so.

- If you want to detect this over the network, you could write a
script to run via a logon script to check for outlook.exe.

- Use the resource kit utility pulist.exe to check for any instances
of outlook.exe running

- Use free utilities like belarc advisor:
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

- If you SMS, Altiris, or other software distibution packages, you
could use some of the built in functionality to do what you want to do

So many options. Hope this helps.
 
Waffle said:
Hi all,

I was wondering if there is a tool to detect computers on a network
that have any version of Outlook installed?

Ikkie
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I never got into this because I'm not a network admin or in IT, but I
believe there are inventory programs that you can run that will detect
what are on the hosts, but they may also require a client to run on that
host to do the reporting back to the server inventory program (which
maybe could be pushed onto their machines as long as the NetBIOS ports
or RPC weren't disabled). I only remember about the inventory software
because it was so very expensive. Maybe IT could afford it but the
price immediately put it out of bounds for our test lab.
 
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