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Hi All,

I am trying to understand the code below. The foreach - what exactly is it looping through???

 $data = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_OperatingSystem |  ForEach {
        New-Object PSObject -Property @{
            Computername = $env:computername
            OS = $_.Caption
            Version = $_.Version
            SystemDirectory = $_.systemdirectory
            Serialnumber = $_.serialnumber
            InstalledOn = ($_.ConvertToDateTime($_.InstallDate))            
            LastReboot = ($_.ConvertToDateTime($_.LastBootUpTime))            
        }

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Regards,
K

Jason Crawford

That doesn't make any sense. Try this instead:

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_OperatingSystem | ForEach-Object -Process {
  [array]$object += New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property @{
    Computername = $env:computername
    OS = $_.Caption
    Version = $_.Version
    SystemDirectory = $_.systemdirectory
    Serialnumber = $_.serialnumber
    InstalledOn = ($_.ConvertToDateTime($_.InstallDate))            
    LastReboot = ($_.ConvertToDateTime($_.LastBootUpTime))            
  }
}

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Qlemo

The important part is that you do not read it like this

($data = Get-WMIObject ...) | foreach { ... }

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but

$data = ( Get-WMIObject ...) | foreach { ... } )

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i.e. the expression including pipeline is executed, and the result assigned to the var.