RE: [ActiveDir] OT (Sort of): Determining the Edition of Windows Installed
Thanks for all the very quick responses. Managed to churn out the reports with minutes to spare *grin* Glenn. List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
RE: [ActiveDir] OT (Sort of): Determining the Edition of Windows Installed
Hi Glenn, Did you used wmi to get this information ? Use below script to determine edition --- On Error Resume Next strComputer = . Set objWMIService = GetObject(winmgmts:\\ strComputer \root\cimv2) Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery(Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem,,48) For Each objItem in colItems Wscript.Echo Caption: objItem.Caption Next - Above script will give edition for local PC. IF you want to get edition of remote PC's then replace . value in strComputer with hostname. If you need to get edition for large numbers of servers/desktops then let me know, I will send you another script, just you need input text file with all servers and desktops details. Script will pop up required information in a excel sheet. -dinesh -Original Message- From: Glenn Corbett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 2:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] OT (Sort of): Determining the Edition of Windows Installed All, We are currently undergoing our MS Licensing Upgrade (ugh), and one of the things I need to know is which version and which edition of windows server is running on a particular machine. Getting the version number from the registry is fairly easy, and I've already configured MS Ops Manager to get this information. Determining the edition (server, advanced server etc) is proving a bit more difficult. I've used The AD Cookbook (thanks Robbie) and got the basic list of servers (Windows 2000 v Windows 2003), now just need to work out what edition of windows is running on them. Any idea how to quickly retrieve this information ? TIA Glenn List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email or any action taken in reliance on this e-mail is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Visit us at http://www.cognizant.com
RE: [ActiveDir] OT (Sort of): Determining the Edition of Windows Installed
This is what I use -- most from the Technet scripting site and Robbie's
book, I'd guess...
Function OperatingSystemVersion (node)
Dim objWmiService, colOperatingSystems, objOperatingSystem
Dim iRetry
On Error Resume Next
For iRetry = 0 To 5
Set objWMIService = Nothing
Set colOperatingSystems = Nothing
Err.Clear
Set objWMIService = GetObject(winmgmts: _
{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\ node
\root\cimv2)
If Err.Number = 0 Then
Set colOperatingSystems =
objWMIService.ExecQuery _
(Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem)
For Each objOperatingSystem in
colOperatingSystems
If Len (OperatingSystemVersion) 0 Then
OperatingSystemVersion = OperatingSystemVersion vbCrLf
OperatingSystemVersion =
OperatingSystemVersion objOperatingSystem.Caption
objOperatingSystem.Version
Set objWMIService = Nothing
Set colOperatingSystems = Nothing
Exit Function
Next
Else
wscript.Echo Error binding to root\cimv2 for
node , Err.Description ( Hex(Err.Number) )
End If
Next
Set objWMIService = Nothing
Set colOperatingSystems = Nothing
OperatingSystemVersion = unknown
End Function
-Original Message-
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Corbett
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 4:35 AM
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Subject: [ActiveDir] OT (Sort of): Determining the Edition of Windows
Installed
All,
We are currently undergoing our MS Licensing Upgrade (ugh), and one of
the things I need to know is which version and which edition of windows
server is running on a particular machine.
Getting the version number from the registry is fairly easy, and I've
already configured MS Ops Manager to get this information. Determining
the edition (server, advanced server etc) is proving a bit more
difficult. I've used The AD Cookbook (thanks Robbie) and got the basic
list of servers (Windows 2000 v Windows 2003), now just need to work out
what edition of windows is running on them.
Any idea how to quickly retrieve this information ?
TIA
Glenn
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