Where to find SAPGUI patch levels
How does one check the patch level on SAPGUI using a logon script, command prompt or even a Kix or VB script? I suppose the real question is where in a Windows 2000/XP registry is the key that displays the patch level number?

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You will not find the release version in the Windows registry. However, there are other ways to find this out.

Example: You can use the FILEVER.exe Windows Resource Kit utility.

C:>filever "%ProgramFiles%SAPFrontEndSAPGuisapgui.exe" That will return the version of the executable.
See sample below:

--a-- W32i APP - 6400.2.0.8926 shp 90,112 05-27-2004 sapgui.exe If you need to only know what SAPGUI release they have (not down to the patch level) and if you have at least R/3 4.6C you can use SM04 and display the GUI column. That's very useful to determine who is in what version.
Example: 4.6D vs. 6.20.

And last but not least, SAP has a utility call SAPVER that can help you as well.

This was first published in March 2005

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