How to get and set file last access time and date using system. Getwmiobject for multiple servers solutions experts. The problem with the technique described in that article is that it can be tough to locate. Getwmiobject not only can read information from wmi, but it can also facilitate invoking wmi methods. Get wmi class information, instances of classes or available classes. List the 32 bit programs installed on workstation64. A member on the technet forums asked a question why a certain powershell script was not working on virtual machines, but it worked on physical. I am trying to find a way to get the guid of every program installed on about 150 computers. Powershell execution policy setting is overridden by a policy defined at a. Powershell find all software on machine install registy key. Powershell script to install and uninstall software. I have no idea where the problem would be, so im hoping some of you gurus can point out the likely obvious flaw that im missing.
A wmi filter is a set of wmi queries the wmi query language wql is used that you can use to target computers to which a specific group policy should be applied. Wmi and cim is a definition of management information. I was thinking i could create a login script that would run a script and save the result to. Further, calling this class causes a repair action to be executed on every program it returns. Last accessed date and time of all the installed software you can interact with the answerer there if needed. Another reason is just for the sake of exploring the wmi repository to see what exactly is out there. With this script you can pass different credentials for a local or remote computers. Asset and compliance compliance settings right click on configuration items and create new configuration item. So i have this script that should go though a list of computers and uninstall a user defined program.
Wmi filters in group policy gpo allow you to more flexibly apply policies to clients by using different rules. Below is a powershell script, which was used to install the software using the powershell. Then ill show you how to save the results to a file and well finish with a neat trick that compares the installed programs between two pcs. Sometimes it is worth knowing what the available namespaces are in wmi, especially if you are looking for a specific class and are not sure where it might be sometimes it just isnt under root\cimv2. Later writehost was used to display a message after the successful completion of software installation in powershell windows. Remote uninstall script uninstalling all software on. There are a few different ways to invoke wmi methods such as using invokewmimethod, but this can be done with getwmiobject as well. Gathering installed software using powershell microsoft certified. Configmgr also uses wmi to enable client agent and serverside functions. This means youre only going to get data on softwarepackages installed using msi. How to uninstall programs using powershell life of a. Next to that, the used wmi class isnt available on all systems. The term getwmiobject is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. I started wondering how hard it could be to actually accomplish this, these are my findings.
I have implemented this just now and have few suggestions for you if you are still working on this. It is instead uninstalling way more software than im asking it to, im assuming all of it, but i havent let the script run long enough to find out. All of the systems that i support have the sccm client installed on them. It is highly recommended that you do not use wmi to get installed software. Introduction to wmi basics with powershell part 3 wql and. The same wildcards and operators are used with the filter parameter with the wmi and cim cmdlets, this means that we can transform a wql query that we find on a reference and make it in to a. You need to perform this act remotely and ensure that the license key is in the correct format. Retrieving product installation information using wmi via. We use getwmiobject cmdlet to collect information about computers in powershell. How to get a list of all installed software on remote. You can use the computername parameter of the getwmiobject cmdlet even if your computer does not meet the requirements for windows powershell remoting and even if your computer is not configured for remoting in windows powershell. Description this script will create a software update group containing software updates defined by product and update classification between a range of years. To show this, i will perform a wmi lookup for software and then show you what happens as we are receiving data from wmi on installed software. My next post will be a function that utilizes the function above in order to compare installed software between devices.
Powershell is one of the most powerful things built into windows. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. The following power shell scripts use getwmiobject, getservice and getitemproperty. Synopsis get installed software information from remote computer. But i also have a few other wmi powershell tricks that you might use to get system. The below examples will provide you a better understanding of how we collect information about a computer system using getwmiobject cmdlet list computer manufacturer and model.
Use powershell to find all collections where the specified. Allen describes a powershell script to do the inventory. But i contend that using powershell to accomplish the same task is the recondite path to geekhood were going to use the getwmiobject cmdlet to list all the programs currently installed on your computer. Posted in hyperv, hyperv 2012 r2, powershell, scripting, tutorials, windows, windows 7, windows 8, windows server, windows server 2012 r2 and tagged get list of software installed from a remote computer via wmi and powershell, get list of software installed from a. A powershell function to get the installed software jeffops. Querying via wmi will also cause the windows installation platformframeworkwhatever to do a consistency check on all installed software. Use powershell to find installed software scripting blog. Using powershell to get a list of applications installed. Click next on settings page click on new to define a new setting. The getcmcollectionofdevice command retrieves all collections where the specified device has a membership. Wmi is a centralized repository of information within the windows server, and understanding how to effectively use it can simplify some administrative tasks. The information is gathered from the registry via wmi. Let powershell do an inventory of your servers simple talk. Another way to get a list of installed software from a local or remote windows computers.
Find the product guid of installed software with powershell 4sysops. Use powershell to quickly find installed software scripting blog. The fun came when i started to consolidate the data. This is something i use often when i simply want to find out what kind of software.
Windows 7 and windows server 2008 r2 have a wmi class, softwarelicensingservice, which you can use to solve this issue. The getwmiobject cmdlet does not use the windows powershell remoting infrastructure to perform remote operations. Uninstall an application in software center with powershell. With the code the way it is, im pulling the information for the machine the script is ran on. Hi guys, im looking to develop the script below further by scanning multiple machines to get the results of installed software. Having a list of installed programs is also useful if you just bought a new.
I also have a script that lists installed software on a computer in a gui and also allows you to. The license key needs to be set before you can activate the system. Configuration manager and wmi looking inside microsoft. Now that we have a list of the programs installed find the one you want to remove and move on to the next step. For example, using the wmi gpo filter, you can apply a policy linked to an ou only to computers running windows 10 a. Restricting group policy with wmi filtering windows os hub. Open a powershell session and type the following command. Documenting services, as well as installed applications, helps in troubleshooting see my nonpaged pool post and can aid in recovering from a disaster situation. This wmi class is only loaded during the installation of an. How to create a list of your installed programs on windows.
The average windows administrator has come across wmi at least a few times, maybe while troubleshooting an issue or building out a monitoring solution. Here startprocess command was used to initiate the installation process of the package. More hal information october 12, 2009 alan 8 comments if you have performed physical to virtual p2v migrations before you will know about the significance of having the correct hardware abstraction layer hal installed within the operating system. Get the list of installed softwares on remote computers. At its simplest, the client uses wmi to extract information about the hardware, os, and installed software of the client machine. This query on windows xp takes a long time and on vista it fails in both standard user and admin consoles. Check out the application log of the server youre testing on to see what i mean. But the problem with it is, it only retrieves the installed applications via msi, however, this wmi class might not list all the installed softwares that show in add or remove programs, appwiz. If you then repeat these reports over a time period, it helps to to track trends such as disk space usage so you can spot trouble before it becomes a problem. Edit as dave wyatt pointed out in the comments, the above function doesnt always work, for example on a x64 system. How to use powershell to locate a specific application.
The registry approach is recommended because it performs much better than wmi and returns more data. To make my future life easier, i wrote a powershell script that exports a list of the installed programs into. Ive a script which list installed software of named computer in a network and also detect the defined forbidden installed software. I have a few tricks ill show you in a bit for using this command. Get list of software installed from a remote computer via. I had to collect the installed software from few computers and i used belarc advisor. You can find all information about installed software, updates and hotfixes with the following powershell commands. The member didnt provide the whole script, but basically the primary function was to initiate a uninstall of an application in software center. Get the list of installed softwares on remote computers with. If you dont have sccm 0712 then im sorry to say this wmi class doesnt exist. I find it is very useful to take and maintain an inventory of the sql servers im responsible for. Click next and add supported platforms as per your requirements. Yesterday i deployed a computer with configmgr and then wondered why it got certain software installed. Using powershell getwmiobject win32 service, getservice.
The guid is what uniquely identifies a piece of installed software among all of the other pieces of software on a computer. Getciminstance get a managed resource storage, network, software etc invokewmimethod call wmi methods getcredential get a security credential object based on a user name and password. If you run a regular and comprehensive inventory of all the servers you manage, you can solve problems more quickly and answer most questions from management. Parameter siteserver site server where the sms provider is installed. Getwmiobject powershell tricks windows server management.
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