The application provides you with basic software inventory features that can help you to audit applications and updates installed on pcs in a local network and export the collected data to prepare software inventory reports according to your needs. And, because it provides exampledata as you select the wmiquery value items, i didnt have to rememberlook up all the wmi query arguments to do so. Getting program installed list of remote computers stack overflow. To show this, i will perform a wmi lookup for software and then show you. Further, calling this class causes a repair action to be executed on every program it returns. 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. How do you check the version on installed software. Query with freeware tool wmi explorer by alexander kozlov. 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. The list of programs that installed in the system can be obtained by using wmic command line. To view or edit an existing wmi scan, click its row in the list to open the wmi scan form. 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. There are many ways to do this, but it depends on how the software is installed. How to make wmi filter to check for installed software.
Software task sequence wmi query for installed software. Manage how and where windows defender av receives updates. Obtaining useful and accurate information from the wmi scanner is dependent on the accuracy of the windows management instrumentation query language wql query. It is a bit cumbersome and very much a developeroriented topic, but we can still use it. It has a high level of detail for example, caption, installdate. A sql query and wql query are not the same thing, but they look almost the same. Powershell script installed software list for remote computers. Today id like to talk about remote process creation using powershell and wmi.
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. Looking for a way to detect usb printers, scanners, and. Note that this requires 64bit powershell and windows 8. In powershell, getwmiobject has the computername parameter allowing you to run the. Gathering installed software using powershell microsoft certified. Csv output can be easily read into excel for further sorting and analysis. Note filter, as we shall see in next chapters, is a variation of query. This tool will help you to view the list of software installed along with the software details like software name, version and manufacturer. Checking the installed software versions by using powershell allows you to gather data that you. A script exists for powershell users to automatically list all installed programs called. 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. This is wmi provider that coordinates access to the registry.
Powershell script to compare dp packages with wmi sccm road. By bluemoon786, february 21, 20 in configuration manager 2007. Get the list of installed softwares on remote computers. Ive readup on wmi and trid tweaking examples online to no avail. Microsoft office 2003 with none sp, sp1 or sp2 if this is true. Software deployment software powershell sccm 2012 microsoft powershell registry wmi id like to upgrade all nonserver clients in our environment to powershell 4. This means youre only going to get data on softwarepackages installed using msi. I need to query the date a folder was created i tried a zillion different combinations but cant get it to work. Introduction to wmi basics with powershell part 3 wql and. This blog post explain the process of creating your own wql queries for sccm collections from scratch using powershell.
I have used this to check what software wmi reports as installed when checking against what spiceworks finds as installed. The wmi scan list displays all of your saved wmi scans. How do you want to test for the existence of this software. How to get a list of all installed software on remote. Plugins, citrix applications and small utility programs, these are not scanned by the script below. Besides wmi access, it also can query the remote registry for key values and also file property values on the system. Sure it is an old script, but there aint a faster way to get a realtime list of installed software using powershell, guaranteed. 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.
Such is the case for sys admins when determining what software is currently configuring a server. Powershell script to find specific software solutions. Uninstallview will scan your pc for installed software. Per example running a query that will provide me a list of computer that has c. For general instructions for using list pages in sysaid, see using sysaid lists. It also provides an extra column in the output which indicates the architecturex86 or x64 of the software.
Its a companion piece, intended to allow for a simple look and repeat approach to get people started successfully. The two examples above show how you can use the filter cmdlet to narrow down the results. How to get installed software list with version numbers using. This alternative method can be implemented in one of two ways. This class is misused in a number of scripts because while it does provide you the information about the installed software, it comes with a cost associated with it. Using powershell to get a list of installed software from a remote. Use powershell to discover and create sccm collection queries.
Script get the name of installed antivirus using powershell. All of the systems that i support have the sccm client installed on them. Im having a hard problem with a wmi filter and maybe you can lend me a hand. Gathering installed software using powershell microsoft. Using wmic to retrieve a list of all installed programs. 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.
In this case we filtered out any device where the deviceid wasnt c. This is something i use often when i simply want to find out what kind of software is installed on a system. Wmi query filters with powershell syntax instead of wql. Comma separated value list of caption software name, installdate and installdate2 fields. If you want to do an inventory of all installed software in your active directory domain, then keep on reading my post. How to query wmi with command line cmd and batch file. This script is updated recently to query 32bit as well as 64bit applications installed on remote computers.
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. How to create a list of your installed programs on windows. The free software inventory tool is a utility to collect information about the software installed in a given computer of a windows domain. Im going to cover the wmi first only because you should never use it as a means to collect data on installed software. 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. Powershell comes already with tight integration to wmi with its builtin getwmiobject and getciminstance cmdlets. 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. This article is related to how to scan for custom windows management instrumentation wmi items and intended as a basic example walkthrough from start to finish about how to collect wmi data. If you dont have sccm 0712 then im sorry to say this wmi class doesnt exist. Some software registers in the registry while others only create a program folder and still others install themselves as a. How to get list of installed programs in windows 10. Of course, all regular wmi requirements still apply running wmi service on. Remotely install software using wmi and powershell.
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. I know that you can use getciminstance query to query different things in wmi. Use powershell to quickly find installed software scripting blog. Lets see how to get a list of installed programs using the windows command prompt and using powershell. Over on, i came upon a vbscript in a forum to find all the pnp entities associated with a usbcontroller. Accordingly, to get a complete list of installed software, you will need to scan information from all. Get the name of installed antivirus using powershell today m when i was playing with the wmi, i have found a cool wmi class and namespace, the class is antivirusproduct and the namespace is root\securitycenter2, when you query the namespace, this will show you the name of the antivirus installed on your laptop. Group policy filtering of installed applications ask the. Querying via wmi will also cause the windows installation platformframeworkwhatever to do a consistency check on all installed software. I would suggest using powershell instead of wmic with powershell you can sort, filter, save to cvs and even query multiple computers. Detecting which windows optional components are installed. If a source is not available, the next source in the list is used. Complete wmi query guide with wmi explorer, powershell, cmd.
Find answers to powershell script to find specific software from the expert. List installed software wmi script center spiceworks. Powershell will give you a list of all your programs, complete with the version, name of the developer, and even the date you installed it. I rewrote it in powershell and was pretty happy with the results so i thought i would share them.
Use powershell to find installed software scripting blog. 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. Using the wmic tool to view or export a list of your installed windows software will. Use powershell to list installed software from configmgr. Wmi query with windows management instrumentation tester.
Sccm collection queries use wql wmi query language queries, which are queries to the site servers wmi and not the sql database. Updates are obtained from sources in the order you specify. Typically, you configure endpoints to individually download updates from a primary source followed by other sources in order of priority, based on your network configuration. The second example shows how you can pass a wmi query using the query cmdlet. Second, i ran an ip scan using angry ip of all available nodes.
Looking for a way to detect usb printers, scanners, and keyfobs 25 september 2014, 08. 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. The registry approach is recommended because it performs much better than wmi and returns more data. Specifically for software installation, but you could start any process on a remote machine by modifying the code to your liking. From the output, we can see that using query and filter are the fastest ways to retrieve the wmi information.
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