On 23/01/2009 11:40 AM, Matt Herbert (matherbe) wrote:
Hey all,
Just wondering if there is a way to differentiate Windows Server 2008
from Windows Vista? All the normal methods I would use aren't cutting
it. For instance, sys.getwindowsversion() and platform.uname() are
returning exactly the same thing for Vista and Windows 2008.
This was a while ago now, but I also just needed to determine this
information.
If you ask win32api to give you an OSVERSIONINFOEX tuple, you can get
the 'wProductType' field. eg, on Vista:
>>> win32api.GetVersionEx(1)
(6, 0, 6001, 2, 'Service Pack 1', 1, 0, 256, 1, 30)
on 2008:
(6, 0, 6001, 2, 'Service Pack 1', 1, 0, 274, 2, 30)
The 2nd-last item is wProductType and defined as:
VER_NT_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER=0x0000002
VER_NT_SERVER=0x0000003
VER_NT_WORKSTATION=0x0000001
Vista reports itself as a 'workstation', where 2008 will report itself
as a server or a DC (and I did indeed run the above test on a 2008 DC)
For-the-archives ly,
Mark
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