I use this site alot while learning Powershell. Its been a great help so far!
Here is my issue:
I am trying to write a script that will take workstation names, pull the workstation description from WMI and output both the workstation name and description found into a new .csv file.
Here is what I have so far:
Get-Content -Path "workstation_names.csv" | Select-Object Workstations |
Foreach-Object { Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_OperatingSystem -ComputerName $workstations | Select Workstations, Description | Export-CSV -Path "results.csv" -NoTypeInformation }
The workstation_names.csv has a column named "Workstations" and under it each cell has a single workstation name in it. Currently my script will create an output file that will have two columns in it. One called "Workstations" and the other called "Description". The Workstation column is empty, and the Description column only has the results for the first workstation description in it (even though I have 10 workstation names listed in the workstation_names.csv file).
I am sitting here scratching my head with my n00bish knowledge of Powershell. I know I PROBABLY need to so something with the array that is created from the first .csv file but I am not sure how to code what I need. Any help??
Probably something like this should do the trick:
$inFile = "workstation_names.csv"
$results = #()
Import-CSV -path $inFile -header Workstations |
% {$results += Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_OperatingSystem `
-ComputerName $_.Workstations | Select PSComputerName, Description}
$results | Export-Csv -Path "results.csv" -NoTypeInformation
So to elaborate on this, you aren't really importing the CSV, you are importing the raw text file, which is confusing, since I don't really understand how anything works for you in that case. Here the script will create an array to store the results, import file as CSV, loop through the valuables and output results to the CSV.
4c74356b41's script will fail for several reasons
It's -header not -headers
there is a typo %_ instead of $_
select Workstations won't work as that's no property of gwmi
This only slightly reworked script should do.
$inFile = "workstation_names.csv"
$results = #()
Import-CSV -path $inFile -header Workstations |
% {$results += Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_OperatingSystem `
-ComputerName $_.Workstations | Select PSComputerName, Description}
$results | Export-Csv -Path "results.csv" -NoTypeInformation
To see which properties are available see the following output
GWmi -Class Win32_OperatingSystem -ComputerName localhost|gm|out-gridview
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With this script, I am able to find a specific application on a list of multiple remote devices and determine the version number of the application on their corresponding host system. This is outputted beautifully in the PS window. However, I am having trouble exporting the results properly into excel, that is, I want each property (Name, Version, PSComputerName) to be in a separate column vs all in one column. So far, I've tried the following
$list = Get-Content -Path C:\Users\bob\AppList.txt
$Servers = Get-Content -Path C:\Users\bob\ServerList.txt
foreach ($Serv in $Servers) {
Get-WmiObject -Namespace ROOT\CIMV2 -Class Win32_Product -ComputerName $Serv |
Select-Object -Property Name, Version, PSComputerName |
Where-Object -FilterScript { $_.Name -like "*$list*" } |
Export-Csv -Path C:\Users\bob\ServerListResults.csv
}
This resulted in simply just one device's information being extracted while every other cell was empty
I added -append at the very end! Thank you anyways!
I have a script to retrieve the size of systems hard drive. In this test, the hard drive is a 500 gb drive.
When I run the following script from Visual Code and from Powershell ISE I get two very different results for the hard drive size in the CSV it produces.
The script goes as follows:
$file = "c:\temp\hdInfo.csv"
$hdInfo = (Get-CimInstance -Class Win32_DiskDrive | Select-Object Caption).caption
$hdSize = (Get-CimInstance -Class Win32_LogicalDisk | Measure-Object -Property Size -Sum).sum /1gb
$psVer = (get-host).Version
$newRow = New-Object -Type PSObject -Property #{
'PS_version' =$psVer
'HD_Info' = $hdInfo
'HD_Size_Received'= $hdSize
}
$newRow | Export-Csv -Path $file -NoTypeInformation -Append -Force
The 1st row of data under the header row is using Visual Code which is using Power Core 6 and the 2nd row of data under the header row is using Powershell 5.1. Two differnt hard drive sizes!?
Link to picture of csv output
Can someone please help me understand why this is?
I am trying to collect a list of the viewers installed on a set of servers. I am trying to loop through that list and run a wmi query and store the results and export a table with with the wmi result and server name next to it.
I am running this on server 2012
$computers = Get-Content C:\computers.txt
$WMIQuery = foreach ($computer in $computers){Get-WmiObject -Class
Win32_Product | where-object {$_.name -match "Microsoft Viewer*"}}
$WMIQuery
$WMIQuery | Out-File c:\Viewers.txt
Desired Results
Server Name Object1 Object2
Server1 Microsoft Excel Viewer Microsoft Visio Viewer
I output the file and get a blank txt file.
foreach ($computer in (Get-Content -Path "C:\computers.txt")) {
Get-WMIObject -ComputerName $computer -Class Win32_Product |
Where-Object {$_.name -match "Microsoft Viewer" } |
Out-File -Append -Path "C:\viewers.txt"
}
Your original code wasn't identifying the computer to perform Get-WMIObject against, so it was looking at only the computer that you were running the script on.
If there are many products on the remote computer, you may want to consider filtering on the remote computer instead of locally, so as to avoid transferring large amounts of data over what may be a slower-than-ideal network:
foreach ($computer in (Get-Content -Path "C:\computers.txt")) {
Get-WMIObject -ComputerName $computer -Class Win32_Product -Filter "Name LIKE '*Microsoft Viewer*'"|
Out-File -Append -Path "C:\viewers.txt"
}
(I think I have the filter syntax correct; I seem to have to hack at it every time I write a new filter...)
I don't have enough rep to add a comment, but Jeff is correct. However, there are still issues with the original poster's query. The following piece of code will yield no results based on the examples provided by the poster:
{$_.name -match "Microsoft Viewer*"}
That needs to either be changed to
{$_.name -like "*Microsoft*Viewer*"}
or
{$_.name -match "Microsoft.*?Viewer"}
I am trying to run a software script against my servers, to see exactly what software is installed and what version. I have the list of the servers stored in a text file "SystemList.txt" that is formatted like you see below.
SERVER001
SERVER002
SERVER003
SERVER004
I need to pull the server names out of the file and use them in my csv that I need to look like this:
Here is the code:
$computers = Get-Content -path
D:\Users\stephen.lyons.sa\Documents\SystemList\SystemList.txt
Foreach($computer in $computers)
{
$computer
$env:COMPUTERNAME
Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\*
|Select-Object Displayname, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate | Out-
file \\txusocts002\d$\APSO\Steve\Test\$env:COMPUTERNAME.csv
}
Perhaps I am missing something, but would this meet your CSV file need?
Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* |
Select-Object -Property DisplayName,DisplayVersion,Publisher,InstallDate |
Export-Csv -Path my.csv
As the title states, I am trying to determine every computer model used in our domain. I am new to the company, and have been placed in charge of producing a new encryption solution for all end point devices. By knowing the computer models in our domain, I will be able to determine which machines have a TPM 1.2 chip, and which ones don't (almost 15k devices). I do not need anything to look pretty, but I'm open for ideas. I more or less want a list (text or csv for sorting purposes) so I can quantify models and research.
Here's what I have so far:
Get-ADComputer -Filter {Name -like 'ML*'} | select -expand name |
ForEach {
If (Test-Connection $_ -count 1 -quiet)
{Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem -ComputerName $_} Select-Object -Property model | Export-Csv "c:\scripts\Models.csv"}
Else { Add-Content -value $_ c:\scripts\not.responding.txt}
I know there are problems with this. Right now I'm having trouble querying AD and passing the computer name variable only. Because of this, the ping test fails, and everything exports to the failed text file. The failed text file indicates that the variable includes a lot more than just the computer name. If I can pull the variable correctly, I'm not sure if the rest would work, but I think it should. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
$ComputerNames = Get-ADComputer -Filter {Name -like 'ML*'} | select -expand name
foreach ($computername in $ComputerNames){
If (Test-Connection $computername -count 1 -quiet){
Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem -ComputerName $computername | Select-Object -Property model | Export-Csv "c:\scripts\Models.csv"
}
else{
Add-Content -value $computername c:\scripts\not.responding.txt
}
}
there you go.