Detection Methods for ProjectProRetail and VisioProRetail

Question

_{Thursday, March 30, 2017 11:58 AM}

Hi all,

I'm in the process of creating a SCCM package for the deployment of Project Pro for Office 365 (click2run) and Visio Pro for Office 365 (click2run).    These are installed in a similar way to how you would push out Office 365 pro plus (click2run) :

setup.exe /configure configuration.xml

However the only difference is that inside the configuration.xml file is the line

 <Product ID="ProjectProRetail">

or

 <Product ID="VisioProRetail">

and this will successfully deploy the software if I were to do it manually.

What I'm after is the detection method for these two click2run products. 

Can anyone advise how they may have achieved this themselves ?

thanks!

All replies (8)

_{Thursday, March 30, 2017 12:15 PM}

Honestly this is a question for the Visio or Project forums. They can tell you what is different between the products and how to detect that.

Garth Jones

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_{Thursday, March 30, 2017 2:56 PM}

OK thanks. I'll x-post because I think its also valid here too because someone may have already created SCCM packaged to deliver Visio Pro 365 and/or Project Pro 365.

_{Thursday, March 30, 2017 3:16 PM | 1 vote}

you can use example deteck VisioPro registry. example: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\VisioProRetail

Regards,

Zeng Yinghua (Sandy) (Blog, Twitter)

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_{Friday, March 31, 2017 1:26 AM}

Hi, check out below link for example to see if this helps:

http://randygray.com/deploying-office-365-using-system-center-configuration-manager/

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_{Friday, March 31, 2017 7:58 AM}

Thanks Frank but his article only explains how to detect "O365ProPlusRetail -  en-us"

_{Friday, March 31, 2017 8:00 AM}

Hi thanks for the response. This could possibly work.

The only problem is that the key name here will be "VisioProRetail" which is great. However when the next version of Visio 365 comes out, this key name will be the same. So the detection method for the new version will fail.  What im saying is that "VisioProRetail" remains the same for every release of Visio 365 pro...

I would prefer a unique detection method for this current version (2016).

_{Friday, March 31, 2017 8:23 AM}

When the next version of Visio 365 comes out, you should deploy updates to your workstation using software update or UNC path, with GPO, or SCCM client setting. You need to read more about how to deploy O365 updates articles.

You don't need to change your detection everytime when comes a update.

Regards,

Zeng Yinghua (Sandy) (Blog, Twitter)

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_{Tuesday, March 19, 2019 10:00 PM}

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