Microsoft Office Configuration Analyzer Tool 1.0 Available for Download

Microsoft has released a Office Configuration Analyzer Tool 1.0 (OffCAT). OffCAT provides a quick and easy method to analyze several Microsoft Office programs for common configurations that may cause problems. This can be very useful for busy Help Desk personnel when end-users call for help with Office programs or when you want to proactively identify possible issues.

Overview
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. The Office Configuration Analyzer Tool 1.0 also includes a command-line version that can be used to collect an OffCAT scan without user intervention.

Download Microsoft Office Configuration Analyzer Tool 1.0
OffCAT 1.0 is available at the following website. Download the files appropriate for you.

Additional details on using OffCAT are provided in the ReadMe_OffCAT.doc file.

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 1.0 provides scanning for the following Office programs:
  • Access
  • Excel
  • Outlook
  • PowerPoint
  • 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
Microsoft Office Configuration Analyzer Tool 1.0

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