Vista - Accessing "System Information"

Is there a programmatic way to access "System Information" as the GUI does?
If it's done purely via WMI, is there a document that specifies which WMI
objects were aggregated? Obviously, powershell is the way to script these
days.

On Jun 21, 1:46 pm, Roman Rozinov
<RomanRozi...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Is there a programmatic way to access "System Information" as the GUI does?
> If it's done purely via WMI, is there a document that specifies which WMI
> objects were aggregated? Obviously, powershell is the way to script these
> days.

Hi, Roman:

Yes Of course powershell has the ability to access "System
Information". Check this:

get-help get-wmiobject -examples

BR.
Gil

On Jun 21, 1:46 am, Roman Rozinov > If it's done purely via WMI, is
there a document that specifies which WMI
> objects were aggregated?

The answer to this is there are several tools by Microsoft and others
which let you browse WMI objects. Try these three places:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr.../createit.mspx

http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/po...er-part-1.aspx

http://www.primalscript.com/Free_Tools/index.asp

Also as someone mentioned recently you gotta get PowerTab. That makes
autocompletion of the WMI objects extremely...usable.

http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/po.../powertab.aspx

On Jun 21, 1:46 am, Roman Rozinov
<RomanRozi...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Is there a programmatic way to access "System Information" as the GUI does?

I'll go a little further and show you how you can find and output some
of this information.

# Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem

SystemDirectory : D:\WINDOWS\system32
Organization : HR
BuildNumber : 2600
RegisteredUser : HR
SerialNumber : xxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx
Version : 5.1.2600

# $win32OS = Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem
# $win32OS | get-member -MemberType property


TypeName: System.Management.ManagementObject#root
\cimv2\Win32_OperatingSyste
m

Name MemberType Definition
---- ---------- ----------
BootDevice Property System.String
BootDevic...
BuildNumber Property System.String
BuildNumb...
BuildType Property System.String
BuildType...
Caption Property System.String
Caption {...
[and so on]

7# $win32OS.Name
Microsoft Windows XP Professional|D:\WINDOWS|\Device
\Harddisk1\Partition1

Win32_ComputerSystem is a good one to check out as well.

"Hal Rottenberg" <halr9000@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1182609315.695545.169260@c77g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> On Jun 21, 1:46 am, Roman Rozinov
> <RomanRozi...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> Is there a programmatic way to access "System Information" as the GUI
>> does?
>
> I'll go a little further and show you how you can find and output some
> of this information.
>
> # Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem
>
> SystemDirectory : D:\WINDOWS\system32
> Organization : HR
> BuildNumber : 2600
> RegisteredUser : HR
> SerialNumber : xxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx
> Version : 5.1.2600
>
> # $win32OS = Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem
> # $win32OS | get-member -MemberType property

or to see all the property values:

Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem | format-list *

--
Keith