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How to scan and detect the windows server versions remotely?

This is to find out about 100+ Windows Servers in our production. All these servers were joined Windows AD domain. We wanted to know on each individual server, what is the Windows Server version installed, CPU core and some other hardware information.

Do we need to have the administrative privileges? How about if we don't have the privilege? Would powershell manage to do the job?

Thanks in advance.

MichaelBalack

ASKER

Besides Windows server version, information such as, CPU core and socket, physical or virtual server, are needed as well.

bbao

yes, you do need administrative privilege to do that especially you have no any remote access or system management agent in use on each client computer.

you maynuse PSEXEC to run VER or SET to learn and remotely grab the OS version info.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psexec

Radhakrishnan

Hi,

You need admin privilege to do these type of tasks. You can do this via powershell as well.

From a server, Import -module active directory

Then

Get-ADComputer -Filter * -Property * | Format-Table Name,OperatingSystem,OperatingSystemServicePack,OperatingSystemVersion -Wrap –Auto

This will list the whole machines name and you can filter it after exporting to excel.

Otherwise use this command to only filter server OS versions;

Get-ADComputer -Filter {OperatingSystem -Like “Windows Server*”} -Property * | Format-Table Name,OperatingSystem,OperatingSystemServicePack -Wrap -Auto

Good luck

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MichaelBalack

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Thanks for both experts, your suggestions and linked articles work.