Microsoft Office Configuration Analyzer Tool 1.1 is available for download

Microsoft has released an update version 1.1 of Office Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT). OffCAT 1.1 includes several new features and improvements, plus general bug fixes.

Details
Office Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT) is a program that provides a detailed report of your installed Office programs. This report includes many parameters about your Office program configuration and highlights known problems found when OffCAT scans your computer. For any problems that are listed in the report, you are provided with a link to a public-facing article (usually a Microsoft Knowledge Base article) on the issue so you can read about possible fixes for the problem. If you are a Help Desk professional, you can also save the report to file so that the report can be viewed in the Office Configuration Analyzer Tool on another client where the tool is installed.

OffCAT is very useful for Help Desk personnel when end-users call for help with Office programs or when you want to proactively identify possible issues. OffCAT 1.1 also includes a command-line version that can be used to collect an OffCAT scan without user intervention.

More information about OffCAT 1.0 available here.

Features added in OffCAT v1.1
There are several new features and updates included in OffCAT v1.1.
  • Option to scan All Office programs (Access, Excel, InfoPath, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, Visio and Word)
  • Additional detection rules and bug fixes.
  • CalCheck v2.1 included.
  • Portable html version of the OffCAT scan report.
  • Option to update rule files without prompting.
  • Additional group policy support.
  • New ‘Options’ page:
    • Default folder for saving scans.
    • Theme color.

Additional details on using OffCAT are provided in the ReadMe_OffCATv1.1.docx file.

Download Microsoft Office Configuration Analyzer Tool 1.1
The links in this section correspond to file available for this download. Download the files appropriate for you.

The following video shows the Getting Started with OffCAT.


System requirements
Supported operating systems: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista Service Pack 2, Windows XP Service Pack 3

This download works with the following Microsoft Office products:
  • Office 2013 (32-bit or 64-bit, Click-to-run or Msi installs)
  • Office 2010 (32-bit or 64-bit)
  • Office 2007
  • Office 2003 (Offline Scans only)

OffCAT version 1.1 provides scanning for the following Office programs:
  • Access
  • Excel
  • InfoPath
  • OneNote
  • Outlook
  • Publisher
  • Visio
  • Word

The following minimum version of the Microsoft .NET Framework is required:
  • Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0

The .NET Programmability Support feature included with Office must also be installed.

Reference
Office Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT) version 1.1 is now available

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