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I have a production server and need to know what version of the windows installer is running, what's a quick way to find this out without running the 4.5 installer on the server?

Nick Kavadias
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From a command prompt:

msiexec /?

It displays the version on the first line. EG: Windows ® Installer. V 3.01.4000.1823

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You need to get the version of MSI.dll.

=== EDIT: For some reason I read this as you needing to do this in a scriptable way. msiexec /? is of course a faster way to do it if you just need to check it manually. ===

You can do this with VBScript.

Create a file like this called VersionInfo.vbs:

set args = WScript.Arguments
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
WScript.Echo fso.GetFileVersion(args(0))
Wscript.Quit

Then call it like:

cscript //nologo VersionInfo.vbs %windir%\system32\msi.dll

NOTE: the script was pulled from here.

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Adam Brand
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    You're better off just doing this in a VBS: set installer = createobject("windowsinstaller.installer") msgbox installer.version – Izzy Jul 14 '09 at 04:01
  • @Izzy: thx. I guess if you are incorporating it into a script, you would just do wscript.echo installer.version at the end. – Adam Brand Jul 14 '09 at 04:20
  • if it was scripting i would have asked on stackoverflow, good to know if i ever need to do a mass deployment :) – Nick Kavadias Jul 14 '09 at 04:47
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  • Check the version of MSI.DLL (%windir%\System32)
  • OR run the following: msiexec /?

Or, if you want to get clever, make a .VBS file, paste the following into it, and double click it:

set installer = createobject("windowsinstaller.installer") 
msgbox installer.version
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Get the information using Powershell:

get-item $env:windir\system32\msi.dll | fl

Soyka
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for the shortest way of check; just after clicking start menu, choose run box and type msiexec there , then it will popup a window of windows installer with instructions and the version number in the heading...

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