Querying mysql databases with powershell microsoft. Microsoft also created the wmi query language wql to give. Getting started with windows powershell powershell. For example, query all computers in an ad domain for list of installed. Vmware is going after that market very aggressively, and have been working. 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. Gathering installed software using powershell microsoft. Querying via wmi will also cause the windows installation platformframeworkwhatever to do a consistency check on all installed software. When installing remotely, use a universal naming convention unc network path to specify the path to the. Check if a software program is installed using powershell. This set of technologies is called webbased enterprise management, and windows management instrumentation wmi is a microsoft implementation of this. 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. It allows for retrieval of additional properties such. 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. 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. Powershell, wmi, and richard siddawayan unbeatable combination. The foundations for manageability in windows 72008vistaxp2000 and millennium edition98 are windows management instrumentation wmi. 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. Activexperts network monitor provides the ability to build monitor check routines based on wmi.
You will be using a powershell module called mysql. Remotely install software using wmi and powershell. Powershell script to find specific software solutions. Use powershell to discover and create sccm collection queries.
I think its probably time to come back to the topic. Group policy filtering of installed applications ask the. Lets just take a minute to see what hassle he went. From the foreword by ed wilson, microsoft scripting guy. Tabs organize powershell and vbscript code for selected items, while an. The two examples above show how you can use the filter cmdlet to narrow down the results. 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. How to use powershell to locate a specific application. Powershell comes already with tight integration to wmi with its builtin getwmiobject and getciminstance cmdlets. 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. 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.
Use powershell to list installed software from configmgr. One is through wmi and another is by looking in the registry. How to get a list of all installed software on remote. Querying wmi remotely with powershell is very useful in windows day to day administration and scripting. I dont actually have any services with special characters in their names. Use powershell to list installed software from configmgr 3 replies in this blog i will share a few powershell functions that help me to quickly identify software installedadvertised on a client computer, as well as to list all the computers that have installed a specific application. Software deployment software powershell sccm 2012 microsoft powershell registry wmi id like to upgrade all nonserver clients in our environment to powershell 4. 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. If you do the below command it will pull the name of all installed software. This alternative method can be implemented in one of two ways. A sql query and wql query are not the same thing, but they look almost the same.
I wont blame him, i also used to be a wmic guy before i discovered and learned powershell. Once the ado driver has been installed, youll then need to download some powershell code thats already been created to do this. In theory if you can query a system, you should be able to import it into birdsnest and connect it all together. The registry approach is recommended because it performs much better than wmi and returns more data.
All of the systems that i support have the sccm client installed on them. How do i query the powershell versions for all systems. List installed software wmi script center spiceworks. 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. With 150 practical examples, including readytoreuse scripts and techniques, youll learn the ins and outs of automating wmi via powershell v3. To show this, i will perform a wmi lookup for software and then show you.
How to make wmi filter to check for installed software. 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. List installed programs on remote computers with powershell. It also provides an extra column in the output which indicates the architecturex86 or x64 of the software. The topic remotely install software using wmi and powershell is closed to new replies. 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. This is wmi provider that coordinates access to the registry. Use powershell to quickly find installed software scripting blog. This entry was posted in powershell and tagged script, software, windows, wmi by afokkema. 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. Key points on working with windows management instrumentation providers. In this case we filtered out any device where the deviceid wasnt c. Powershell query installed software on remote computers. 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.
Powershell script to compare dp packages with wmi sccm road. Lets suppose for a moment that, for whatever reason, i needed to find out what vmware software was installed on my machine. This blog post explain the process of creating your own wql queries for sccm collections from scratch using powershell. Get list of software installed from a remote computer. Further, calling this class causes a repair action to be executed on every program it returns.
Make sure you see your software listed, and that you are spelling it the same way that it is listed. Using wmic to retrieve a list of all installed programs. In this blog post i am going to play with wmi objects on the local computer and on remote computers. The kbs for ms17010 are deployed through software update so if your using wsussccm the script should see them without issue, unless you. Use powershell to find installed software scripting blog. This means youre only going to get data on softwarepackages installed using msi. Using powershell to view windows server roles and features. Gathering installed software using powershell microsoft certified. So far, most of the information ive come across has been about making that determination locally. It is a bit cumbersome and very much a developeroriented topic, but we can still use it. Windows powershell provides a simple mechanism to connect to windows management instrumentation wmi on a remote computer. Script getremoteprogram get list of installed programs on.
Specifically for software installation, but you could start any process on a remote machine by modifying the code to your liking. 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. Sccm collection queries use wql wmi query language queries, which are queries to the site servers wmi and not the sql database. And lo and behold, they have indeed changed the wmi schema with sql server 2008. Introduction to wmi basics with powershell part 3 wql and. 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. Im having a hard problem with a wmi filter and maybe you can lend me a hand. Microsoft office 2003 with none sp, sp1 or sp2 if this is true. If you dont have sccm 0712 then im sorry to say this wmi class doesnt exist. This module consists of various commands that you can use to manage mysql databases. Csv output can be easily read into excel for further sorting and analysis.
Ive knocked up this code to allow me to query for specific service names using powershell. Efficient windows powershell administration with wmi and cim. Im trying to determine what version of powershell has been installed on target systems. Here are some powershell tricks for finding out which roles and features are installed on windows server.
The wmi approach im going to cover the wmi first only because you should. This getting started guide provides an introduction to windows powershell. Im after the executable pathname for the service, so the getservice cmdlet is not appropriate here. I left the topic alone for a while as austin was speaking at the may meeting about powershell and wmi.
Ive installed the free and opensource wmi explorer desktop application. Software task sequence wmi query for installed software. Once you have the classes, you can return the objects within that class. Mine was when i was managing software licenses and needed to audit. You can use powershell to return information about wmi classes. I know that you can use getciminstance query to query different things in wmi. Besides using wmic there are few other ways to get list of installed software from a remote computer. Today id like to talk about remote process creation using powershell and wmi.
Detecting which windows optional components are installed. This script is updated recently to query 32bit as well as 64bit applications installed on remote computers. This is something i use often when i simply want to find out what kind of software is installed on a system. 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. 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. Wmi query filters with powershell syntax instead of wql. I would suggest using powershell instead of wmic with powershell you can sort, filter, save to cvs and even query multiple computers. The rest went well, and im now back on track browsing the wmi namespace. Heres how to streamline your powershell query process to avoid. The second example shows how you can pass a wmi query using the query cmdlet. Once you confirm the app has been installed, you can delete the exe files.
Whats confusing to many admins is that in windows powershell v3 and later. 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. 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. By bluemoon786, february 21, 20 in configuration manager 2007.
I created the next script to inventory the installed software on my servers. There is a set of systems management technologies, designed to unify the management of distributed computing environments. It has a high level of detail for example, caption, installdate. If you want to do an inventory of all installed software in your active directory domain, then keep on reading my post. Powershell and wmi is an exampledriven guide for administrators managing networks of windows servers and desktops. I posted a few notes back in april about using wmi with powershell. Per example running a query that will provide me a list of computer that has c.
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