How to determine the date that Office 2003 was installed
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Is there any guaranteed way of determining the date that Office 2003 (and .Net Framework v2.0) were installed on a client computer?
I am trying to nail down a problem which I think is due to the order that the .Net Framework and Office 2003 were installed in, so I need a way I can get a client to have a look at their machine (preferably the file system) and let me know.
It may require admin privileges (or Registry etc) which wouldn't be a problem but not the preferred solution.
It appears that the folders under Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11 have a number with the same date which at first sight appear to be an installation date / time.
Likewise in Windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.0.50727 there are two with the same date, but this seems less certain.
I could use WMI with a winmgmts:object and SELECT * FROM Win32_Product, but was wondering if there was a 'telephone' way to do it!
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