Quick Notes: How to Detect the Installed Edition of SharePoint 2010

Many times it is required to know the current edition of SharePoint 2010 installed.

If the behavior of your custom application depends on the installed SKU of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, you can determine which SKU of SharePoint Server 2010 is installed locally by using the Power shell command and GUID of SharePoint 2010 Editions.

In this topic I will explain the how to get current edition of SharePoint 2010.

1.      You can get GUID of installed SharePoint 2010 from registory within the registry key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\14.0\WSS\InstalledProducts.

2.      Or You can also use the PowerShell command get-spfarm | select Products to output GUIDs for the installed SKUs.

3.      As you get the GUID then you can check it with following table.

SharePoint 2010 Edition	GUID
SharePoint Foundation 2010	BEED1F75-C398-4447-AEF1-E66E1F0DF91E
Search Server Express 2010	1328E89E-7EC8-4F7E-809E-7E945796E511
SharePoint Server 2010 Standard Trial	B2C0B444-3914-4ACB-A0B8-7CF50A8F7AA0
SharePoint Server 2010 Standard	3FDFBCC8-B3E4-4482-91FA-122C6432805C
SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Trial	88BED06D-8C6B-4E62-AB01-546D6005FE97
SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise	D5595F62-449B-4061-B0B2-0CBAD410BB51
Search Server 2010 Trial	BC4C1C97-9013-4033-A0DD-9DC9E6D6C887
Search Server 2010	08460AA2-A176-442C-BDCA-26928704D80B
Project Server 2010 Trial	84902853-59F6-4B20-BC7C-DE4F419FEFAD
Project Server 2010	ED21638F-97FF-4A65-AD9B-6889B93065E2
Office Web Companions 2010	926E4E17-087B-47D1-8BD7-91A394BC6196

Reference Link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff721969.aspx