When I look at the Win32_ComputerSystem class, it shows loads of properties like Status, PowerManagementCapabilities, etc. However, when in PowerShell I do the below I only get back a couple:
PS C:\Windows\System32\drivers> Get-WmiObject -Class "Win32_computersystem"
Domain : YYY.com
Manufacturer : VMware, Inc.
Model : VMware Virtual Platform
Name : LONINEGFQEF58
PrimaryOwnerName : Authorised User
TotalPhysicalMemory : 2147016704
How can I see all properties?
Try this:
Get-WmiObject -Class "Win32_computersystem" | Format-List *
Get-WmiObject -Class "Win32_computersystem" | Format-List -Property *
For certain objects, PowerShell provides a set of formatting instructions that can affect either the table or list formats. These are usually meant to limit the display of reams of properties down to just the essential properties. However there are times when you really want to see everything. In those cases Format-List * will show all the properties. Note that in the case where you're trying to view a PowerShell error record, you need to use "Format-List * -Force" to truly see all the error information, for example,
$error[0] | Format-List * -force
Note that the wildcard can be used like a traditional wilcard this:
Get-WmiObject -Class "Win32_computersystem" | Format-List M*
If you want to know what properties (and methods) there are:
Get-WmiObject -Class "Win32_computersystem" | Get-Member
You can also use:
Get-WmiObject -Class "Win32_computersystem" | Select *
This will show the same result as Format-List * used in the other answers here.
I like
Get-WmiObject Win32_computersystem | format-custom *
That seems to expand everything.
There's also a show-object command in the PowerShellCookbook module that does it in a GUI. Jeffrey Snover, the PowerShell creator, uses it in his unplugged videos (recommended).
Although most often I use
Get-WmiObject Win32_computersystem | fl *
It avoids the .format.ps1xml file that defines a table or list view for the object type, if there are any. The format file may even define column headers that don't match any property names.
The most succinct way to do this is:
Get-WmiObject -Class win32_computersystem -Property *
You can list all properties of object using Four ways
Method-1: Format-Table
Get-Process | Format-Table -Property * -Wrap | Out-File abc.txt -Width 5000
OR
Get-Process | Format-Table * -Wrap | Out-File abc.txt -Width 5000
OR
Get-Process | FT * -Wrap | Out-File abc.txt -Width 5000
Method-2: Format-List
Get-Process | Format-List -Property *
OR
Get-Process | Format-List *
OR
Get-Process | FL *
Method-3: ConvertTo-Html
Get-Process | ConvertTo-Html | Out-File services1.html ; invoke-item services1.html
Method-4: Out-GridView
Get-Process | Select * | Out-GridView
Comparision of results to show parameters usage:
Format-Table/Format-List If you want to include all columns then always use -Property * parameter
Format-Table always capture output to a file using Out-File because sometime not all columns are included if you show result on screen.
FormatTable always specify reasonable width using -Width parameter otherwise column values are truncated in result.
Format-Table always use -Wrap so that column with large text is not trimmed but is shown in multiple line in long column.
CovertTo-Html properties with collections will only display Type Name of Collection insted of comma seperated values of collection items. This display is bit different from how Format-Table, Format-List & ConvertTo-Html display property with collection
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I have written this script to get some information about my Virtual Machine. When I execute this script the last two cmdlets (lines) don't execute, but when I execute them alone they run properly.
Get-CimInstance Win32_LogicalDisk -Filter "DriveType=3" | Select-Object DeviceID, SystemName,
#{n='Size (GB)'; e={$_.Size / 1GB -as [int]}},
#{n='Freespace (GB)'; e={$_.Freespace / 1GB -as [int]}};
$TotalMemory = (Get-CimInstance Win32_OperatingSystem).TotalVisibleMemorySize / (1024*1024)
$UsedMemory = (Get-CimInstance Win32_OperatingSystem).FreePhysicalMemory / (1024*1024)
$TotalMemory = [math]::Round($TotalMemory,2)
$UsedMemory = [math]::Round($UsedMemory,2)
$TotalMemory
$UsedMemory
Get-CimInstance Win32_Processor | Select-Object -Property NumberOfCores;
Get-CimInstance Win32_Processor | Measure-Object -Property LoadPercentage -Sum | Select-Object Sum;
What is the problem?
Any comments would be appreciated.
This question has been asked a million times. Format-table is being implicitly run, and it doesn't handle different sets of columns well. All the objects are there. You can pipe the whole script to format-list. You can put get-date at the very beginning. A known object with a format file at the beginning fixes it. You can output more than 4 properties with the first object. I tried to ask for a warning to be added a while ago: format-table should at least warn when it doesn't display properties #7871
Looks like out-gridview has similar struggles: Not all properties displayed
This appears to be one of PowerShell's weird quirks. I am not sure why it happens, but if someone else does I will happily edit my answer to include it.
You will need to specifically tell it to write the output to the console. There are a couple ways of doing this.
The first, and probably messiest, would be to pass it as a parameter to Write-Host or Write-Output.
Write-Host (Get-CimInstance Win32_Processor | Select-Object -Property NumberOfCores)
Write-Host (Get-CimInstance Win32_Processor | Measure-Object -Property LoadPercentage -Sum | Select-Object Sum)
(Another way of doing this would be to assign them both to variables, and pass the variables to the cmdlet)
The second way would be to pipe it to Write-Host or Write-Output
Get-CimInstance Win32_Processor | Select-Object -Property NumberOfCores | Write-Host
Get-CimInstance Win32_Processor | Measure-Object -Property LoadPercentage -Sum | Select-Object Sum | Write-Host
And finally, the third (and in my opinion cleanest) way would be to pipe it to a code block that references the property directly
Get-CimInstance Win32_Processor | %{$_.NumberOfCores}
Get-CimInstance Win32_Processor | Measure-Object -Property LoadPercentage -Sum | %{$_.Sum}
Hope this helps!
When I look at the Win32_ComputerSystem class, it shows loads of properties like Status, PowerManagementCapabilities, etc. However, when in PowerShell I do the below I only get back a couple:
PS C:\Windows\System32\drivers> Get-WmiObject -Class "Win32_computersystem"
Domain : YYY.com
Manufacturer : VMware, Inc.
Model : VMware Virtual Platform
Name : LONINEGFQEF58
PrimaryOwnerName : Authorised User
TotalPhysicalMemory : 2147016704
How can I see all properties?
Try this:
Get-WmiObject -Class "Win32_computersystem" | Format-List *
Get-WmiObject -Class "Win32_computersystem" | Format-List -Property *
For certain objects, PowerShell provides a set of formatting instructions that can affect either the table or list formats. These are usually meant to limit the display of reams of properties down to just the essential properties. However there are times when you really want to see everything. In those cases Format-List * will show all the properties. Note that in the case where you're trying to view a PowerShell error record, you need to use "Format-List * -Force" to truly see all the error information, for example,
$error[0] | Format-List * -force
Note that the wildcard can be used like a traditional wilcard this:
Get-WmiObject -Class "Win32_computersystem" | Format-List M*
If you want to know what properties (and methods) there are:
Get-WmiObject -Class "Win32_computersystem" | Get-Member
You can also use:
Get-WmiObject -Class "Win32_computersystem" | Select *
This will show the same result as Format-List * used in the other answers here.
I like
Get-WmiObject Win32_computersystem | format-custom *
That seems to expand everything.
There's also a show-object command in the PowerShellCookbook module that does it in a GUI. Jeffrey Snover, the PowerShell creator, uses it in his unplugged videos (recommended).
Although most often I use
Get-WmiObject Win32_computersystem | fl *
It avoids the .format.ps1xml file that defines a table or list view for the object type, if there are any. The format file may even define column headers that don't match any property names.
The most succinct way to do this is:
Get-WmiObject -Class win32_computersystem -Property *
You can list all properties of object using Four ways
Method-1: Format-Table
Get-Process | Format-Table -Property * -Wrap | Out-File abc.txt -Width 5000
OR
Get-Process | Format-Table * -Wrap | Out-File abc.txt -Width 5000
OR
Get-Process | FT * -Wrap | Out-File abc.txt -Width 5000
Method-2: Format-List
Get-Process | Format-List -Property *
OR
Get-Process | Format-List *
OR
Get-Process | FL *
Method-3: ConvertTo-Html
Get-Process | ConvertTo-Html | Out-File services1.html ; invoke-item services1.html
Method-4: Out-GridView
Get-Process | Select * | Out-GridView
Comparision of results to show parameters usage:
Format-Table/Format-List If you want to include all columns then always use -Property * parameter
Format-Table always capture output to a file using Out-File because sometime not all columns are included if you show result on screen.
FormatTable always specify reasonable width using -Width parameter otherwise column values are truncated in result.
Format-Table always use -Wrap so that column with large text is not trimmed but is shown in multiple line in long column.
CovertTo-Html properties with collections will only display Type Name of Collection insted of comma seperated values of collection items. This display is bit different from how Format-Table, Format-List & ConvertTo-Html display property with collection
I'm collecting information using a WMI query. I want to send this information to a CSV file including the machine name. I can send the information but I'm not able to include machine name with it.
$PasswordState = Get-WmiObject -Class Lenovo_BiosPasswordSettings -Namespace root\wmi |
Select -Expand PasswordState |
Select-Object -Last 1 |
Out-File -FilePath '\\server\share\Bios_Password_Status.csv' -Append -Encoding Unicode
I need this to create a CSV file with two items:
Data returned from WMI query
Machine name
Does this give you what you want, it will store the result in an array called $Output. You can then use $Output | Out-File -Append to add it to a file or something.
$Result = Get-WmiObject -Class Lenovo_BiosPasswordSettings -Namespace root\wmi | Select -Property PSComputerName,PasswordState
$Output += $Result | Format-Table -HideTableHeaders
I'm trying to get the memory usage of process per user (like task manager), that info comes to Memory (Private working set) if we convert that values into MB we should get the memory usage, like in the users view in task manager...
Maybe i missing something, if someone know about this pls tell me.
And this is my script
Get-WmiObject Win32_Process | Sort-Object -Property privatememorysize -Descending |
Select processname, #{Name="Mem Usage(MB)";Expression={[math]::round($_.privatememorysize/ 1mb,2)}},#{Name="UserID";Expression={$_.getowner().Domain+"\"+$_.getowner().user}} | fl *
Try using WorkingSetSize instead of PrivateMemorySize.
Get-WmiObject Win32_Process | Sort-Object -Property WorkingSetSize -Descending |
Select processname, #{Name="Mem Usage(MB)";Expression={[math]::round($_.WorkingSetSize / 1mb,2)}},#{Name="UserID";Expression={$_.getowner().Domain+"\"+$_.getowner().user}} | FL
The issue is that the Win32_Process class doesn't have a property named 'privatememorysize'. Replacing that with 'privatepagecount' instead makes this work as expected.
Get-WmiObject Win32_Process | Sort-Object -Property privatepagecount -Descending |
Select processname, #{Name="Mem Usage(MB)";Expression={[math]::round($_.privatepagecount/ 1mb,2)}},#{Name="UserID";Expression={$_.getowner().Domain+"\"+$_.getowner().user}}
I see, that is not the same, so we have the issue here where the WMI object doesn't give private working set, and other methods that do include that don't have the user. So what we can do is use Get-Process to get each process and the private working set, and use Get-WMIObject to get the user associated with each object, and then match them up. Probably best to make a hashtable from one to reference, then use that to add the property to the other object. So, let's do that!
#Get WMI Process objects
$WMIProcs = Get-WmiObject Win32_Process
#Get Get-Process object
$GPProcs = Get-Process
#Convert Get-Process objects to a hashtable for easy lookup
$GPHT = #{}
$GPProcs | ForEach-Object {$GPHT.Add($_.ID.ToString(),$_)}
#Add PrivateWorkingSet and UserID to WMI objects
$WMIProcs|ForEach-Object{
$_ | Add-Member "Mem Usage(MB)" $([math]::round($GPHT[$_.ProcessId.ToString()].PrivateMemorySize64/1mb,2))
$_ | Add-Member "UserID" $($_.getowner().Domain+"\"+$_.getowner().user)
}
#Output to screen
$WMIProcs | Format-Table ProcessName, "Mem Usage(MB)", UserID
What I'm trying to do is look at some processes and get a list of the user of these processes. ANd the following code worked fine for me.
get-wmiobject win32_process |
where{$_.name -like "*notepad*"}|sort {$_.CommandLine}|
select #{n="User";e={$_.getowner().user}},#{n="ProcessID";e={$_.ProcessID}},{$_.CommandLine} |ft -AutoSize |Out-String -Width 300 >> C:\ListUsers.txt
Somehow I wanted to split the $_.CommandLine string in the middle of way, and output some of the split arrary(see the following code for a better idea, although the code is wrong). But the updated code just output nothing into the text file. I think I must be using the select-object or fommat-object wrong, but i don't know how i can fix it.
get-wmiobject win32_process |
where{$_.name -like "*notepad*"}|sort {$_.CommandLine}|
%{
$split = $_.CommandLine.split("\")
select #{n="User";e={$_.getowner().user}},#{n="ProcessID";e={$_.ProcessID}},#{n="Ihub";e=$split[3]},#{n="version";e=$split[3]},#{n="version";e=$split[3]} |
ft -AutoSize |Out-String -Width 300 >> C:\ListUsers.txt
}
Can anyone advise? Thanks!!
You don't need to use select and then format-table. Format-table can create calculated properties too. Also, you forgot to wrap the $split[3] in a scriptblock. I removed the two "version" properties because they were identical to "Ihub".
Try this(untested):
get-wmiobject win32_process |
where{$_.name -like "*notepad*"}|sort {$_.CommandLine} |
Format-Table -Property #{n="User";e={$_.getowner().user}},#{n="ProcessID";e={$_.ProcessID}},#{n="Ihub";e={($_.CommandLine.split("\"))[3]}} -AutoSize |
Out-String -Width 300 >> ListUsers.txt