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published: February 14, 2019 author: Tinu tags: PowerShell categories: System-Engineering
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Get Software from WMI
Loop through the Win32_Product class and get all installed software.
$collection = Get-CimInstance -Class Win32_Product -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Where-Object {-not([string]::IsNullOrEmpty($_.Name))}
$resultset = foreach($item in $collection){
# Add names and values to an PSCustomObject
[PSCustomObject]@{
InstallDate = $item.InstallDate
Vendor = $item.Vendor
Name = $item.Name
PackageName = $item.PackageName
Description = $item.Description
Version = $item.Version
}
}
$resultset | Sort-Object Name | Format-Table -AutoSize
Output:
InstallDate Vendor Name Version
----------- ------ ---- -------
20180822 Adobe Systems Incorporated Adobe Acrobat Reader DC MUI 18.009.20044
20180918 Microsoft Corporation PowerShell 6-x64 6.1.0.0
Get Software from Uninstallkey
Formats a hashtable to a PSCustomObject.
# 64-bit applications that run on a 64-bit version of Windows
$collection = Get-ChildItem 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall' `
| Get-ItemProperty | Where-Object {-not([string]::IsNullOrEmpty($_.DisplayName))} `
| Select-Object DisplayName,DisplayVersion,UninstallString
# 32-bit applications that run on a 64-bit version of Windows
$collection += Get-ChildItem 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall' `
| Get-ItemProperty | Where-Object {-not([string]::IsNullOrEmpty($_.DisplayName))} `
| Select-Object DisplayName,DisplayVersion,UninstallString
$resultset = foreach($item in $collection){
[PSCustomObject] @{
Name = $item.DisplayName
Version = $item.DisplayVersion
UninstallString = $item.UninstallString
}
}
$resultset | Sort-Object Name | Format-Table -AutoSize
Output:
Name Version UninstallString
---- ------- ---------------
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC - Deutsch 19.010.20091 MsiExec.exe /I{AC76BA86-7AD7-1031-7B44-AC0F074E4100}
PowerShell 6-x64 6.1.2.0 MsiExec.exe /X{65276649-728D-4AB9-AAEC-6EFF860B11EC}