Get the list of installed softwares on remote computers with. I had to collect the installed software from few computers and i used belarc advisor. The information is gathered from the registry via wmi. How to uninstall programs using powershell life of a. Get the list of installed softwares on remote computers. Remote uninstall script uninstalling all software on. Powershell script to list installed software on multiple. For example, using the wmi gpo filter, you can apply a policy linked to an ou only to computers running windows 10 a. Powershell script to install and uninstall software. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. Here startprocess command was used to initiate the installation process of the package. I am trying to find a way to get the guid of every program installed on about 150 computers. The term getwmiobject is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. At its simplest, the client uses wmi to extract information about the hardware, os, and installed software of the client machine.
This wmi class is only loaded during the installation of an. The guid is what uniquely identifies a piece of installed software among all of the other pieces of software on a computer. Description this script will create a software update group containing software updates defined by product and update classification between a range of years. 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. 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. 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. 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.
We use getwmiobject cmdlet to collect information about computers in powershell. The registry approach is recommended because it performs much better than wmi and returns more data. The license key needs to be set before you can activate the system. 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. How to use powershell to locate a specific application. 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. Click next on settings page click on new to define a new setting. A powershell function to get the installed software jeffops. 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. Wmi and cim is a definition of management information.
Configmgr also uses wmi to enable client agent and serverside functions. I also have a script that lists installed software on a computer in a gui and also allows you to. Use powershell to quickly find installed software scripting blog. Further, calling this class causes a repair action to be executed on every program it returns. Now that we have a list of the programs installed find the one you want to remove and move on to the next step. Querying via wmi will also cause the windows installation platformframeworkwhatever to do a consistency check on all installed software. With this script you can pass different credentials for a local or remote computers.
Powershell execution policy setting is overridden by a policy defined at a. Windows 7 and windows server 2008 r2 have a wmi class, softwarelicensingservice, which you can use to solve this issue. Allen describes a powershell script to do the inventory. To make my future life easier, i wrote a powershell script that exports a list of the installed programs into. With the code the way it is, im pulling the information for the machine the script is ran on. Having a list of installed programs is also useful if you just bought a new. Get wmi class information, instances of classes or available classes. 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. Next to that, the used wmi class isnt available on all systems.
So i have this script that should go though a list of computers and uninstall a user defined program. My next post will be a function that utilizes the function above in order to compare installed software between devices. Below is a powershell script, which was used to install the software using the powershell. Getwmiobject not only can read information from wmi, but it can also facilitate invoking wmi methods. I have a few tricks ill show you in a bit for using this command. Another reason is just for the sake of exploring the wmi repository to see what exactly is out there. There are a few different ways to invoke wmi methods such as using invokewmimethod, but this can be done with getwmiobject as well. Later writehost was used to display a message after the successful completion of software installation in powershell windows. 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. This means youre only going to get data on softwarepackages installed using msi.
You need to perform this act remotely and ensure that the license key is in the correct format. I started wondering how hard it could be to actually accomplish this, these are my findings. Retrieving product installation information using wmi via. It is highly recommended that you do not use wmi to get installed software. This is something i use often when i simply want to find out what kind of software. This query on windows xp takes a long time and on vista it fails in both standard user and admin consoles. Last accessed date and time of all the installed software you can interact with the answerer there if needed. Use powershell to find installed software scripting blog. The getcmcollectionofdevice command retrieves all collections where the specified device has a membership. Using powershell to get a list of applications installed. Gathering installed software using powershell microsoft certified. The problem with the technique described in that article is that it can be tough to locate. Let powershell do an inventory of your servers simple talk. Restricting group policy with wmi filtering windows os hub.
Introduction to wmi basics with powershell part 3 wql and. 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. Powershell find all software on machine install registy key. How to create a list of your installed programs on windows. I find it is very useful to take and maintain an inventory of the sql servers im responsible for. Getwmiobject powershell tricks windows server management.
Open a powershell session and type the following command. How to get and set file last access time and date using system. How to get a list of all installed software on remote. 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. Wmi is a centralized repository of information within the windows server, and understanding how to effectively use it can simplify some administrative tasks. Another way to get a list of installed software from a local or remote windows computers. Check out the application log of the server youre testing on to see what i mean. You can find all information about installed software, updates and hotfixes with the following powershell commands. Asset and compliance compliance settings right click on configuration items and create new configuration item. 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. The getwmiobject cmdlet does not use the windows powershell remoting infrastructure to perform remote operations.
But i also have a few other wmi powershell tricks that you might use to get system. I have implemented this just now and have few suggestions for you if you are still working on this. Documenting services, as well as installed applications, helps in troubleshooting see my nonpaged pool post and can aid in recovering from a disaster situation. If you dont have sccm 0712 then im sorry to say this wmi class doesnt exist.
Yesterday i deployed a computer with configmgr and then wondered why it got certain software installed. Wmi filters in group policy gpo allow you to more flexibly apply policies to clients by using different rules. 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. Getwmiobject for multiple servers solutions experts.
The following power shell scripts use getwmiobject, getservice and getitemproperty. Edit as dave wyatt pointed out in the comments, the above function doesnt always work, for example on a x64 system. Parameter siteserver site server where the sms provider is installed. Get list of software installed from a remote computer via. Powershell is one of the most powerful things built into windows. Use powershell to find all collections where the specified. Configuration manager and wmi looking inside microsoft. 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.
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. I was thinking i could create a login script that would run a script and save the result to. 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. List the 32 bit programs installed on workstation64. Find the product guid of installed software with powershell 4sysops. Hi guys, im looking to develop the script below further by scanning multiple machines to get the results of installed software. Uninstall an application in software center with powershell. 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. All of the systems that i support have the sccm client installed on them. Click next and add supported platforms as per your requirements. The fun came when i started to consolidate the data. Using powershell getwmiobject win32 service, getservice. The member didnt provide the whole script, but basically the primary function was to initiate a uninstall of an application in software center. Ive a script which list installed software of named computer in a network and also detect the defined forbidden installed software.