Hey guys,
I have a pretty mixed environment in which I have users running both Office 2010 and 2013. The situation is further complicated by the fact that I also have a mixture of the 32-Bit and 64-Bit versions of both Office suites as well. I am now in a situation where I have to use SCCM to deploy some Outlook plugins to every machine in my company. Luckily the plugins work for both Outlook 2010 and 2013, I just need the ability to determine the architecture of Outlook to make sure the right plugin gets installed. I halfway accomplished this by creating a global condition to check the Outlook "Bitness" registry value below:
Registry path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook
Registry key: Bitness
Value: either x86 or x64
The problem is this method is version specific (i.e the path uses 14.0 for Office 2010 and 15.0 for Office 2013). So I have to create a different deployment type for each Office version *and* architecture (resulting in four separate deployment types). I'm looking for a way to simplify this with a more general method that doesn't care what version Outlook is, it just checks if its 32-Bit or 64-Bit. Then I can just target both Office versions with two deployment types (one 32-Bit and one 64-Bit). Does anyone know of a way to achieve this?