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Find product keys on remote machines
The head of our small IT support team (we support a few hundred computers in one division of our company) just sent an email to our team asking if we knew of a utility that could get product keys remotely from a list of computers on your network. We are each members of an AD security group which is a member of the Administrators group on the computers so we have admin rights on them. I asked him if he wanted 1) Just the Windows OS keys or 2) Just the Microsoft product keys or 3) all the keys for all software on the computers and I didn't get a reply so lets go for 3 but if not possible then 2 or 1. A Powershell script would be preferred but I would accept VBS. I would like the script to take the computer names from a text file.
Thanks,
Don
Thanks,
Don
Ask, and you shall receive.
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Get-product-keys-of-local-83b4ce97
This will do the trick nicely for you.
And here is a list of other free key finders.
https://www.lifewire.com/free-product-key-finder-programs-2625119
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Get-product-keys-of-local-83b4ce97
This will do the trick nicely for you.
And here is a list of other free key finders.
https://www.lifewire.com/free-product-key-finder-programs-2625119
Something like this?
Invoke-Command -ComputerName SomeComputer01,SomeComputer02,SomeComputer03 {(Get-WmiObject -query 'select * from SoftwareLicensingService').OA3xOriginalProductKey}
ASKER
Shaun,
Ok, that code runs but I don't see any output. Also, I forgot to say I would like the results to be output to a .csv file. Sorry, but I am not familiar with Powershell at all.
Thanks,
Don
Ok, that code runs but I don't see any output. Also, I forgot to say I would like the results to be output to a .csv file. Sorry, but I am not familiar with Powershell at all.
Thanks,
Don
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Yes, we have VAMT and I have used it to activate Windows or Office (we have a campus license) when for some reason the machine lost contact with our KMS. But It only sees Windows and Office keys and I don't believe you can have it look at a list of remote machines.
ASKER
My supervisor says VAMT should work and he thinks it can work remotely so I am accepting this comment as the answer.
https://www.magicaljellybean.com/product-key-finder-win7-office2010/
I've used it locally and to a second (not-booting) hard drive, but not over a network (which it does claim to do).