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Dynamic Collection Issue - Cannot Remove Office 2003 Machines
Adam Ruth
asked this on November 13, 2009 13:17
I am attempting to create a collection against one of my AD containers that will let me know which machines do not have Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007, or Outlook 2003 installed. I am doing an Exchange Upgrade and the users who do not have an Outlook Client capable of communicating with the Exchange 2007 will be using Outlook Web Access. I will be pushing a shortcut to these machines that point to the Exchange server for OWA.
However, I do not want the OWA icon on the desktop for users who will be using the Outlook client for e-mail.
When I create a Dynamic Collection and choose "Software Name" & "Does not contain" and "Does not match", I cannot find what value would be used to eliminate those other Office products. I have also tried to put the version number in and chose "Software Version" & "Does not contain" and "Does not match". This doesn't work specifically for the full Office suite. The one-off installations of Outlook 2003 are detected and removed using those same parameters. Anyone have any suggestions? This is the first time I've had this problem with Dynamic Collections.
Also, if I create a collection that has a parameter with "Software Name" & "Contians" and the value "office 2003", it actually sees the machines. For some reason, it doesn't work in the other direction.
Comments
Hi,
One way to do this is to use TWO different collections which work together.
1) Create a collection and call it something like "Systems with Office XP or later". Have the Match show ANY. Enter the following for your criteria:
Software Name MATCHES *microsoft*office*2003*
Software Name MATCHES *microsoft*office*xp*
Software Name MATCHES *microsoft*office*2007*
Software Name MATCHES *outlook*2003*
2) Create a Dynamic Collection that called something like "Systems that need OWA". Have the Match show ANY (or all...in this case it doesn't matter). Enter the following for your criteria
Collection NOT MEMBER OF <select the appropriate collection that you created in step one from the Drop down>
You can now use the Collection created in step two to distribute the OWA shortcut.
Been trying to figure out how to do this - thanks! Great tip.