How to detect Media Services are installed on Windows server 2003?

Question

I've been trying to find some information on this. So far I've been using the version Key presence to do it, is there a better way ?

Answer 1

What's installed on a box is noted in several places, none of which reports everything, so you'll have to look at each to find where Media services install info is.

WMI classes:

Win32_ApplicationService

Win32_QuickFixEngineering

Win32_SoftwareFeature

Also MsPIDinfo: http://www.mombu.com/microsoft/scripting-jscript/t-microsoft-programs-ids-277777.html

And, interestingly, uninstall info in the Registry at subkeys below: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall