Office addin reporting

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  Julian Krause May 15, 2024 13:59 Official comment

  Hi Wayne,

  Thanks for reaching out. 

  uberAgent can only report on add-in load times for Outlook plugins. There is no inventory-like report built in. However, you could create a custom search to see which Outlook add-ins are loaded on which host. 

  Unfortunately, Outlook is the only Office application that logs add-in load times to the event log, so we can't provide data for other Office applications such as Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.

  I hope this helps.

  Thanks, Julian

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  Wayne Deguara May 15, 2024 14:49

  Thanks for that.   We're probably more concerned with knowing what these Office addins are rather than knowing their load times (for Outlook, Word, Excel and Powerpoint)

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  Julian Krause May 15, 2024 18:24

  Hi Wayne,

  Thanks for your quick reply. I understand your use case. Unfortunately, other Office applications like Word, Excel, or PowerPoint don't log their information in a way that uberAgent can query.

  However, I just created a short Splunk search that can be used to see which add-ins are running on which host. This search could help you answer the question of which add-in is installed in Outlook and on which host.

  | pivot `uA_DM_Application_OutlookPluginLoad` Application_OutlookPluginLoad
      dc(host) as "Machine count"
      values(host) as hosts
      splitrow Name 
  | stats values(hosts) as Hosts dc("hosts") as "Machine count" by Name 
  | rename Name as "Add-in name"

  I hope this helps.

  Thanks, Julian