Find installed software using wmi and stdregprov one thing i wouldnt do though is to rely on scripting techniques, powershell or otherwise to service as a. Group policy filtering of installed applications ask the. Once you confirm the app has been installed, you can delete the exe files. Powershell can help us in gathering the software on a local or remote system by giving us a couple of different options to perform the software gathering. A sql query and wql query are not the same thing, but they look almost the same. Sccm collection queries use wql wmi query language queries, which are queries to the site servers wmi and not the sql database. Here are some powershell tricks for finding out which roles and features are installed on windows server. The kbs for ms17010 are deployed through software update so if your using wsussccm the script should see them without issue, unless you. With 150 practical examples, including readytoreuse scripts and techniques, youll learn the ins and outs of automating wmi via powershell v3. Gathering installed software using powershell microsoft. Activexperts network monitor provides the ability to build monitor check routines based on wmi. This alternative method can be implemented in one of two ways.
If the machines involved have the smssccm client installed there is a class created for the purposes of hardware inventory that uses the default wmi registry provider to pull data from the above mentioned location. The wmi approach im going to cover the wmi first only because you should. You can use powershell to return information about wmi classes. It also provides an extra column in the output which indicates the architecturex86 or x64 of the software. What i need to do is to create a policie with a wmi filter to check if the computers in my domain have this installed. Getting started with windows powershell powershell. Wmi query filters with powershell syntax instead of wql. Besides using wmic there are few other ways to get list of installed software from a remote computer. I dont actually have any services with special characters in their names.
In powershell, we can find operating system details in different ways, but to be safe we can use the wmi based cmdlet getwmiobject, this command is compatible from windows powershell 2. Remotely install software using wmi and powershell. Introduction to wmi basics with powershell part 3 wql and. Querying wmi remotely with powershell is very useful in windows day to day administration and scripting. Csv output can be easily read into excel for further sorting and analysis.
Use powershell to quickly find installed software scripting blog. It allows for retrieval of additional properties such. Further, calling this class causes a repair action to be executed on every program it returns. The registry approach is recommended because it performs much better than wmi and returns more data. This is something i use often when i simply want to find out what kind of software is installed on a system.
List installed programs on remote computers with powershell. This set of technologies is called webbased enterprise management, and windows management instrumentation wmi is a microsoft implementation of this. It is a bit cumbersome and very much a developeroriented topic, but we can still use it. Specifically for software installation, but you could start any process on a remote machine by modifying the code to your liking. I wont blame him, i also used to be a wmic guy before i discovered and learned powershell. Lets just take a minute to see what hassle he went. List installed software wmi script center spiceworks. Mine was when i was managing software licenses and needed to audit. Use powershell to find installed software scripting blog. Fire up powershell hold down the windows key, tap r, release the windows key, type in powershell and press ok and run the command below to get a list of installed msi package product codes along with the local cache package path and the product name maximize the powershell window to avoid truncated names. Script getremoteprogram get list of installed programs on.
In this blog post i am going to play with wmi objects on the local computer and on remote computers. I posted a few notes back in april about using wmi with powershell. I am wanting to create a powershell script that will take said query and use the workstations that it returns to then list current print jobs in the print queue on the workstation. Powershell script to check if a software program is installed or not in remote machine using registry and wmi and export list of installed programs to csv file. All of the systems that i support have the sccm client installed on them. Powershell script to find specific software solutions. In theory if you can query a system, you should be able to import it into birdsnest and connect it all together. And lo and behold, they have indeed changed the wmi schema with sql server 2008. Vmware is going after that market very aggressively, and have been working.
Key points on working with windows management instrumentation providers. By bluemoon786, february 21, 20 in configuration manager 2007. How to use powershell to locate a specific application. Ive knocked up this code to allow me to query for specific service names using powershell. Ive installed the free and opensource wmi explorer desktop application. Once you have the classes, you can return the objects within that class. Im after the executable pathname for the service, so the getservice cmdlet is not appropriate here. Powershell comes already with tight integration to wmi with its builtin getwmiobject and getciminstance cmdlets. There is a set of systems management technologies, designed to unify the management of distributed computing environments.
Windows powershell provides a simple mechanism to connect to windows management instrumentation wmi on a remote computer. I wanted to check if anyone has a query that i can modify where it will let me find a particular application is installed on a machine. Querying via wmi will also cause the windows installation platformframeworkwhatever to do a consistency check on all installed software. One is through wmi and another is by looking in the registry. Microsoft also created the wmi query language wql to give. 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 from this class.
Id like to start at the top of a wmi namespace, recurse through all the objects, then recurse through each objects property list, filtering out and returning to console only those properties that have mem in their names this is what i have so far. I would suggest using powershell instead of wmic with powershell you can sort, filter, save to cvs and even query multiple computers. In addition, windows powershell providers enable you to access other data stores, such as the registry and the digital signature certificate stores, as easily as you access the file system. Once the ado driver has been installed, youll then need to download some powershell code thats already been created to do this. Detecting which windows optional components are installed.
It has a high level of detail for example, caption, installdate. So far, most of the information ive come across has been about making that determination locally. If you want to do an inventory of all installed software in your active directory domain, then keep on reading my post. If you need to write managed code or native code to do this type of wmi queries, my recommendation is to experiment with powershell first and then implement it in your target language once you have found the best queries. Use powershell to list installed software from configmgr. This blog post explain the process of creating your own wql queries for sccm collections from scratch using powershell. The second example shows how you can pass a wmi query using the query cmdlet. Today id like to talk about remote process creation using powershell and wmi. Tabs organize powershell and vbscript code for selected items, while an. This means youre only going to get data on softwarepackages installed using msi. I am trying to collect a list of installed software on the machine including software that might have been manually installed and when the user selects what they would like to remove as part of that removal i want to query software center to see if it is in there to remove from there first before trying to run the uninstallstring from.
The rest went well, and im now back on track browsing the wmi namespace. This entry was posted in powershell and tagged script, software, windows, wmi by afokkema. Check if a software program is installed using powershell. Powershell query installed software on remote computers. How do i query the powershell versions for all systems.
Heres how to streamline your powershell query process to avoid. If you do the below command it will pull the name of all installed software. Get a list of installed software from configmgr trevor sullivan december 7, 2011 july 9, 2012 configmgr, powershell, scripting lets say youve got microsofts system center configuration manager sccm configmgr in your it environment and if you dont, why on earth not. Lets suppose for a moment that, for whatever reason, i needed to find out what vmware software was installed on my machine. How to make wmi filter to check for installed software. How to get a list of all installed software on remote. Make sure you see your software listed, and that you are spelling it the same way that it is listed. Microsoft office 2003 with none sp, sp1 or sp2 if this is true. The topic remotely install software using wmi and powershell is closed to new replies. I know that you can use getciminstance query to query different things in wmi. In this case we filtered out any device where the deviceid wasnt c.
If you dont have sccm 0712 then im sorry to say this wmi class doesnt exist. When installing remotely, use a universal naming convention unc network path to specify the path to the. To show this, i will perform a wmi lookup for software and then show you. Getremoteprogr am get list of installed programs on remote or local computer this script generates a list by querying the registry and returning the installed programs of a local or remote computer. Using wmic to retrieve a list of all installed programs. Im trying to determine what version of powershell has been installed on target systems.
I left the topic alone for a while as austin was speaking at the may meeting about powershell and wmi. Use powershell to discover and create sccm collection queries. The foundations for manageability in windows 72008vistaxp2000 and millennium edition98 are windows management instrumentation wmi. I created the next script to inventory the installed software on my servers. Efficient windows powershell administration with wmi and cim. Per example running a query that will provide me a list of computer that has c. Powershell script to compare dp packages with wmi sccm road. For example, query all computers in an ad domain for list of installed. I am a bit stumped here hoping someone can help me out. One of the things that people already familiar with powershell syntax bothers about wmi is that it comes with its very own query language wql. Whats confusing to many admins is that in windows powershell v3 and later.
Im having a hard problem with a wmi filter and maybe you can lend me a hand. From the foreword by ed wilson, microsoft scripting guy. Gathering installed software using powershell microsoft certified. This getting started guide provides an introduction to windows powershell.
Get list of software installed from a remote computer. Introduction to wmi basics with powershell part 3 wql and select data queries march 11, 20 by carlos perez windows management instrumentation query language also known as wql is the language we use to express queries against wmi to extract information from it. Currently the tool can query ad and shared folders, im currently working on the sccm scanner, and there are some powershell scripts for querying vmware uem and a couple of other things. Software task sequence wmi query for installed software. I think its probably time to come back to the topic. Querying mysql databases with powershell microsoft.
Using powershell to view windows server roles and features. This is wmi provider that coordinates access to the registry. The two examples above show how you can use the filter cmdlet to narrow down the results. This script is updated recently to query 32bit as well as 64bit applications installed on remote computers. I have used this to check what software wmi reports as installed when checking against what spiceworks finds as installed. Comma separated value list of caption software name, installdate and installdate2 fields. You will be using a powershell module called mysql. Software deployment software powershell sccm 2012 microsoft powershell registry wmi id like to upgrade all nonserver clients in our environment to powershell 4.
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