how do i out put from AD or txt - powershell

Question

I am trying to run this programme against a a list of remote pc/servers either by AD out TXT and display them in either csv or html if any one can offer some help or advise I would be greatly appreciative.
My only limitation is all my machines run powershell v2 only
Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate |
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Answer 1

You want to take the output of that command and put it in a file? PowerShell has a lot of tools to do this. However, you need to remove the Format-Table command first.
See, Format-Table is all about making your command output look really good in a PowerShell window, so it's got a lot of hard returns and columns and things defined in it which make sense to the console, but look like garbage when you export it.
For data like this, I think Comma Separated Value is probably the way to go.
Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* |
Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate |
Export-CSV -NoTypeInfo -Path \\server\share\$($env:ComputerName)_Programs.csv
This example will export a CSV, omitting the import-helper info PowerShell normally adds, using the -NoTypeInformation switch. I figured it'd be useful to know the name of the computer which made the file, so that's just what it will do. Edit -Path to point to a server with a share and away you go. You'll end up with files like this:
ComputerA_Programs.Csv
ComputerB_Programs.Csv
ComputerC_Programs.Csv

Answer 2

If you want to pull from all Ad computers
ForEach ($COMPUTER in (Get-ADComputer -Filter * | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name))
{if(!(Test-Connection -Cn $computer -BufferSize 16 -Count 1 -ea 0 -quiet))
{write-host "cannot reach $computer" -f red}
else{Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate |
Export-CSV -NoTypeInfo -Path "\\server\share$\$Computer_Programs.csv" -NoTypeInformation}}
for if you have list of computers in text
Foreach ($computer in ($computers= Get-Content "c:\Computers.txt" ))
{if(!(Test-Connection -cn $computer -BufferSize 16 -Count 1 -ea 0 -quiet))
{write-host "cannot reach $computer" -f red}
else{
Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate |
Export-CSV -NoTypeInfo -Path "\\server\share$\$Computer_Programs.csv" -NoTypeInformation
}}