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Check software installed on servers

Hi,
We have a about a hundred - two hundred servers in our infrastructure and I have been assigned the glorious task from "the powers that be.." to see if we have a particular software installed on these servers and which servers it's installed on.

Is there a powershell command or a wmi query which could facilitate this without spending hundreds or thousands on auditing software or so I don't have to actually go through this manually?

Please?

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Mohammed Khawaja

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Greg Besso

Hey there,

I run something like the following...

$getProducts = Get-WmiObject Win32_Product -ComputerName $computerName | Select-Object -Property *

You can replace the -Property * with column names once you know what details you want to gather. What I do is run this script from each computer and have it phone home to store the information elsewhere. Or you can run the script centrally from a server that reaches out to each computer on the network. But it's a lot of overhead to keep doing it over and over with most of the information not changing.

I made this thing that installs the script on the individual computers, lets them run it on a schedule and store the output locally to XML. Then it compares the output to the same output from last time. If and only if there was a change found, will it bother to phone home and send the info back.

But that's the starting point, that WMI object.

footech

And again, that references the Win32_Product class. That really should not be used on production systems.

Tom

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We already use Spiceworks, so i'll use that tool and check out the TechNet Script gallery too

Thanks for all your help!