Group Policy WMI filter for Office/Outlook version

[disturbedone]

I've used WMI filters for various things successfully but am struggling with trying to get one to work for finding the version of Office (or more specifically Outlook) so that a GPO only applies if a specific version Office/Outlook is installed.

Google hasn't helped much. About the closest I've come is:

SELECT * FROM Win32_Product WHERE (Caption LIKE "Microsoft Office %2013%")

but the GPO doesn't apply and when I run:

gwmi -query 'SELECT * FROM Win32_Product WHERE (Caption LIKE "Microsoft Office %2013%")'

in Powershell it just hangs and doesn't give any result.

Any ideas how to get a WMI filter to do this?

 

[markdmac]

You are trying too hard. Microsoft has this already done for you, you just need to install the templates into your AD.
Office 2013 Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool

I hope that helps.

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[disturbedone]

I don't want to apply settings for Outlook which is what those ADMX files do. I want to do something (install an application) depending on whether Outlook 64-bit is installed but do something different (install a different application) if Outlook 32-bit is installed.

How can I use WMI filtering to find what version is installed? Once I've found out I can then install the required application.