One is through wmi and another is by looking in the registry. To get a list of all installed software on a remote computer, we can use the windows management instrumentation commandline wmic a commandline and scripting interface that simplifies the use of windows management instrumentation wmi and systems managed through wmi. Csv output can be easily read into excel for further sorting and analysis. Softwaremetering list installed software on a computer. I need to get the list of installed softwares on remote windows hosts using wmi calls. Where can i find a devices firmware version in wmi. Getting the amount of memory installed in a machine with wmi is a bit confusing particuarly if you only read the docs partially. A better way than wmi to detect installed programs via. On windows server 2003, windows vista, and newer operating systems. The wmi capabilities built into windows contain thousands of individual properties in hundreds of classes. A full outer join renders a result set that contains records from both tables being joined. A powershell function to get the installed software. Replace name of software with the software you want to uninstall.
If you want to do an inventory of all installed software in your active directory domain, then keep on reading my post. Create a custom report using sql to find all devices with software installed from a certain publisher and then list the device name, software,publisher,version. Tech support scams are an industrywide issue where scammers trick you into paying for unnecessary technical support services. Ive been reading the documentation, and have got basic examples of using the. If no matching records exist for a row in table 1, table 2s fields will have null values, or vice versa. If i wanted to setup a group policy that installed java, this would be no problem. List installed software wmi script center spiceworks. How to audit installed software from the command line. Sccm and powershell force install of software updates. Earlier this month i posted about getting the installed updates andor hotfixes. Use powershell to quickly find installed software scripting blog.
For example, if you have the 32bit version of 7zip installed, it will not show up in wmic product output, as this is an exe only install. Find installed software using wmi and stdregprov in the first few articles of this series, i guided you through several different techniques for identifying installed. My hard drive crashed and my system didnt come with any discs to re install. Comma separated value list of caption software name, installdate and installdate2 fields. This means youre only going to get data on softwarepackages installed using msi. But is it possible for the group policy to only apply to systems that have mozilla. For example, in order to get information about software installed on a computer you need to execute the following command in the windows commandline console. Gathering installed software using powershell microsoft. Put simply, if the information exists, there is probably a. The getinstalledmodule cmdlet gets powershell modules that are installed on a computer using powershellget. Flexible monitoring system pandora fms is an enterpriseready monitoring solution that provides unparalleled flexibility for it. The wmi approach im going to cover the wmi first only because you should.
Besides using wmic there are few other ways to get list of installed software from a remote computer. Can any helpful soul tell me what syntax i should be using. Get list of software installed from a remote computer via. Targetcomputernamehere product get name, version, vendor. Get latest installed update with powershell damn technology. Remotely install software using wmi and powershell. How to get installed software list with version numbers using. A powershell function to get the installed software jeffops. In this example, one text file has programs from my pc, and the other has programs from my laptop. I have used this to check what software wmi reports as installed when checking against what spiceworks finds as installed. Wmic list all installed software my knowledge base. Is it possible to obtain discs from dell for preinstalled software after your warranty.
What i need to do is to create a policie with a wmi filter to. Hardwareinformation application is written as hta html application and compiled with compiler provided with sharp. To see all modules installed on the system, use the get module listavailable command. This process initiates a consistency check of packages installed, and then verifying and repairing the installations. Installed applications, hot fixes, and all security updates. 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. This script is small but vital piece of a much larger set of scripts that collectively make up solution for software accountingmetering on poverty stricken lans. The alternative to this is by digging into the registry to pull information about installed software. How can i create a program that shows the installed programs on your computer.
Any entries with a side indicator pointing to the right mean that the software is installed on my laptop but not on my pc, and any entries with a side indicator pointing to the left getinstalledmodule powershellget docs. How to get a list of all installed software on remote. Software task sequence wmi query for installed software. Get info on installed patchespacks from remote pc with. 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. From where wmi getting the installed software list in windows.
Wmi tasks for computer software obtain information such as which software is installed by the microsoft windows installer msi and software versions. 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. Script get the name of installed antivirus using powershell. Now this might 80%100% of the software installed on most computers, but there are still a lot of nonmsi installation packages. Im trying to find a way to identify which hotfixes have been installed on a computer. This is just a handful of the software that i have installed but as you can see, there is quite a bit of useful information about each piece of software that is installed on my client. You can help protect yourself from scammers by verifying that the contact is a microsoft agent or microsoft employee and that the phone number is an official microsoft global customer service number. 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. Can i apply a group policy only to systems that have specific software installed. How do i use the wmi interface to find installed software. List all installed software returns a list of all software installed on a computer, whether or not by windows installer. I wonder if there would be a way through the use of wmi. How to make wmi filter to check for installed software.
If you want to compare servers to each other, installed software may. If you dont have sccm 0712 then im sorry to say this wmi class doesnt exist. Guest blogger, marc carter, reprises his popular blog post about locating installed software. Specifically for software installation, but you could start any process on a remote machine by modifying the code to your liking. Further, calling this class causes a repair action to be executed on every program it returns. Using wmic to retrieve a list of all installed programs. Most of the time this isnt an issue, but it will fill up the event log and can cause issues for some software. Retrieving information about installed hardware items with windows management instrumentation is very easy and requires minimal programming skills. After a few moments, a list will be displayed in the command prompt detailing the programs installed on the target computer. The foundations for manageability in windows 72008vistaxp2000 and millennium edition98 are windows management instrumentation wmi. Learn how to use windows powershell to quickly find installed software on local and remote computers.
Use powershell to find installed software scripting blog. Gathering installed software using powershell microsoft certified. How to create a list of your installed programs on windows. If you wanted to create a wmi query to determine whether or not a particular application was installed on a machine, how would you do it. This is something i use often when i simply want to find out what kind of software. Retrieving hardware information with wmi codeproject. 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. Processor type, architecture, cache sizes, and more.
This got me thinking what about installed software. This script reads installed applications from the registry. How to list all installed applications from the command. I tried this code but it does not show all the programs installed in my computer for each folders in io.
Wmi query for an installed application windows hell. Wmi and cim is a definition of management information. It needs to be the same same as the one listed in the previous code. Hello guys im having a hard problem with a wmi filter and maybe you can lend me a hand.
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