One of the first things that should be done when debugging any client side issues with Office Communicator, Office Live Meeting, or the Office Live Meeting Outlook Add-In is to know what versions of each client the user is running.
Rather than have the user open each application and do a “Help | About” and tediously record the version information for each client , I’ve developed a small and simple free online tool that retrieves the version of all three clients and displays it in an HTML window that can be easily cut-and-pasted into an email.
Point your web browser to http://www.insideocs.com/Tools/ClientVersions.html and click the link to run it. There is also a link on the right-hand side of www.insideocs.com (under Inside OCS Resources).
The tools also:
- Attempts to display the installation source of Office Communicator (i.e. OEM, Evaluation Version, Volume License, MSDN, or Academic).
- Contains links to download the latest Office Live Meeting Console and the Office Live Meeting Outlook Conferencing Add-In from Microsoft.
- Works for both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.
Here is a screenshot sample of what it produces:
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Thanks. The link is no problem,
Regards, Curtis
Cool tool and great work, i hope its ok that i link to it from my download site http://www.cinline.se/download/
Cheers
Handy – makes life easier for diagnosing client issues over the phone.
Rather than point the user at it, I would like to run this from my client and remotely gather from any machine.
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