Use powershell to find installed software scripting blog. Run the sccm full hardware inventory deleting the wmi instance. Software inventory using powershell hi, if you are it administrator like me, and supporting and helping users in your environment, and you dint have any software inventory tools because they are too costly and you want to know what software are installed on users machines that is a big problem. Learn how to use windows powershell to quickly find installed software on local and remote computers. It is possible as windows powershell mvp marc van orsouw points out to add additional keys to wmi using the registry provider, and mimic. Instead, you can enable and disable wmi classes, and add new classes to collect by hardware inventory by using client settings i will walk you through the different steps in order to extend configuration manager hardware inventory by enabling. What you see is options for configuring software inventory. Right click default client settings and click properties. How to get configuration manager inventory data using.
Its quick and easy when youre psexecd into a system level command prompt one of my favorite tools because i dont have to boot users to do a lot of stuff. Use at your own risk windows management instrumentation wmi class group has offered administrators an interface pool for hardware, software, infrastructure, and directory services. Ive been writing more and more functions in my sccm. Ms powershell using wmi to create a computer inventory. Trigger hardware inventory and more with wmi, wmic, and. If you want to do an inventory of all installed software in your active directory domain, then keep on reading my post. As youll see, although you can access wmi via vbscript, its a lot easier using windows powershell. This is something i use often when i simply want to find out what kind of software. 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.
This feature is automatically built into windows vista, 2008 and windows 7. If you dont have sccm 0712 then im sorry to say this wmi class doesnt exist. If you were to scan the program files folder, you would return a ton of executables, which is probably not what you want. Windows management instrumentation wmi is a special system interface that provides an access for windows components and external applications to the system information that includes software inventory data. This is why i decided to write a powershell function for that. While you can invoke client actions on sccm clients gui, you can only kick off delta software and hardware. Browse other questions tagged powershell deployment wmi sccm or ask your own question. The powershell remote pc info script powershell code sample uses a number of hardware and software classes, including win32product, to find various information about a remote pc using wmi and the remote registry. In this blog post i am going to play with wmi objects on the local computer and on remote computers. Triggering configmgr client actions with wmic without. Trigger hardware inventory and more with wmi, wmic, andor powershell so i usually use wmic to kick off a hardware inventory or update eval cycle, etc when im troubleshooting. Powershell provides several ways to access the installed software. To configure software inventory in sccm, perform the following steps.
Besides using wmic there are few other ways to get list of installed software from a remote computer. In many cases, you will need to doubleclick selections in the wmi explorer window. Windows management instrumentation wmi is an objectoriented way of describing the hardware and software in your computer. Jan 14, 2010 with powershell it becomes really powerful. How to script to list installed software on multiple computers action1. How to create a list of your installed programs on windows. Remote computer inventory with powershell this script uses wmicmdletsfor the most part, to gather some client hardware and software information remotely over the network. 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. I was able to get this to work, however its only returning microsoft products. Now however im trying to branch out into powershell scripting so after a little digging i found this link with the following code that can be nicely wrapped in powershell code slightly modified with the computer variable. Have you ever wanted to have an inventory without the hassle of going to each finding the information needed to fill the information for your inventory. Query domain for installed programs on user computers.
How to configure software inventory in sccm prajwal desai. Inventory software updates functions getassetinventory pinghost testregistryentry getudpports gettcpports getsystemservices getusbdevices getpendingreboots getmicrosoftupdates getmissingwindowsupdates get64bitsoftware get32bitsoftware getnetworkadapters getmemorystatistics getoperatingsystem getcpu getbios getdiskinformation. Gathering installed software using powershell microsoft certified. How to audit installed software from the command line. Every time there is a change you will need to update also your inventory. Hardware and software inventory using one line of code only 60 characters recently, i was wondering how much code i would need to do basic hardware and software inventory on several remote systems. Solved powershell script for software inventory spiceworks. 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. Powershellget improvements include enforcing signed. Using powershell to pull software inventory of server. Microsoft further disclaims all implied warranties including, without limitation, any implied warranties of merchantability or of fitness for a particular purpose.
Software inventory using powershell idera community. The scripting wife and i were lucky enough to attend the first powershell user group meeting in corpus christi, texas. Objects are organized into classes of like objects such as network cards, oses, computers or logical disk drives. Using this script, you can query for all installations of a specific softwares in your configmgr site, returning either the count, or the full list of machines with. Gathering installed software using powershell microsoft. Basic software inventory, list installed software for any wmi enabled computer. For these resources, a more technically accurate though acronymheavy and jargonlaced name for. Get list of software installed from a remote computer. How to extend hardware inventory in configuration manager. This is a followup post to full hardware inventory sccm client howto, where youll achieve the same as posted here, but using graphical tools.
Its getting more complicated when you have only server core machines. All of the systems that i support have the sccm client installed on them. This information can be accessed through a commandline using windows management instrumentation commandline wmic. I dont mind whether the old shortcut is deleted and replaced with a. Hardware inventory performs all these nonhardwarerelated operations because it is the method for gathering wmi information from clients. How to create a script to list installed software on multiple computers and use powershell script to get a list of installed software on remote computer. So if you are coding a software inventory system, dont. In the configuration manager console, choose administration client settings default client settings. Script of software inventory powershell general ask the experts. Using powershell to get a list of installed software from a remote. If you want to do an inventory of all installed software in your active. Configuration manager and wmi looking inside microsoft. These two lines take care of the cleanup of an existing wmi instance which tells the sccm client to perform a delta inventory instead of a full one.
If youre familiar with the windows management instrumentation wmi classes and the wealth of information that can be gathered by utilizing the. How to get configuration manager inventory from wmi or the database using windows powershell. To be able to query a pcs software you need the management and monitoring tools wmi windows installer provider windows component installed from add and remove windows components. Remote computer inventory with powershell signalwarrant. Everything that is returned through the hardware and software inventory is actually present in the. The wmi explorer can be launched when adding or editing a wmi scanner options scan profiles edit new new add wmi. How to get a list of all installed software on remote. I tried it with the following code but i am not sure if it works reliable and for every software product. In my script, i was just concentrating only on machine policy, discovery data, compliance evaluation, app deployment. Automated software deployment through sccm 2012 using wmi. It probably takes some time to run sccm client actions on all machines in your environment. To collect hardware inventory, the enable hardware inventory on clients setting must be enabled in client settings. I am trying to gather server info using powershellwmi and i am not.
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. What makes using powershell really neat is that if you do this on two different machines, you can easily compare the software installed on them. Use powershell to quickly find installed software scripting blog. The sample scripts are provided as is without warranty of any kind. This may be a very stupid question, but we have a test domain setup using sccm 2012 r2 and tried forcing a software update on the client using one of the above 2 methods wmic or powershell. The majority of applications will be fine as they register themselves properly. One is through wmi and another is by looking in the registry. After experimenting a little bit i came up with the following line of code. Is there an option to find installed software with the powershell. Script create a software inventory reports using powershell.
To create a list of installed programs using ccleaner, either doubleclick on the ccleaner icon on your desktop or rightclick on the recycle bin and select open ccleaner from the popup menu. Use hardware inventory in system center configuration manager to collect information about the hardware configuration of client devices in your organization. Using powershell to pull software inventory of server through sccm this can be done through the gui easily, however i need it done on hundreds of servers. Sure it is an old script, but there aint a faster way to get a realtime list of installed software using powershell, guaranteed. 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. Hardware and software inventory using one line of code. This topic has 7 replies, 7 voices, and was last updated 1 year, 6 months ago by. In this post, we will change the scope from the client to the entire site. The other wmi class useful for software inventory work is not a system library.
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