MS Office versioning shenanigans

AVmcclint
Honored Contributor

The Get Info window on all the Office 2016 (16.16.4) all say 16.16.4 and the About... windows all say 16.16.4, so I built a smart group based on that like I always have. I discovered that the smart group didn't find any applicable installations even though I know for a fact it is installed on my Mac and I ran jamf recon. It turns out that the version Jamf Pro sees is 16.16.18111001. The only place I can see this version is if I do a QuickLook on the apps. I really wish Microsoft would get their act together and be consistent with their versioning. I am glad to see that they seem to have gotten the MS Remote Desktop app versioning settled, I think they transferred the version guy to the Office suite to screw that up too.

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jsherwood
Contributor

I tend to refer to MacAdmins for everything to do with Microsoft Office - the site is run by the Office Dev team and has full version details for each release of Office.