Get list of software installed from a remote computer. Check if a software program is installed using powershell. How to make wmi filter to check for installed software. Check if a program is installed or not by checking registry value. For some strange reason the productcode is referred to as identifyingnumber in wmi. Software installation policy is not designed to be an enterprise software management solution and neither are individual application selfupdate systems. However, we can use a simple wmi query and create a condition if none is true in the task sequence. Export list of installed software programs into csv file. I did not find a good command line solution for finding all installed programs.
Using wmic to retrieve a list of all installed programs. For example, as part of cmdbased startup and logon scripts. Microsoft office 2003 with none sp, sp1 or sp2 if this is true. Wmi query with windows management instrumentation tester.
Wmi filters in group policy gpo allow you to more flexibly apply policies to clients by using different rules. Besides using wmic there are few other ways to get list of installed software from a remote computer. Create a collection of computers that needs to have software x installed but doesnt have. I dont know much about wmi, but i imagine if it can be done, it would be with a wmi filter. Sccm wql query to get installed software info solutions. Doubleclick the downloaded file and follow the onscreen instructions to extract the contents of the softpaq. So, putting it in a wmi filter means that gp processing will wait on the completion of that dog slow query before preceding. I used the criteria tab in the query wizard and to build the logic i need, but the result is null. If i wanted to setup a group policy that installed java, this would be no problem. I have also used wmi to query the installed software list. List installed software wmi script center spiceworks. What i need to do is to create a policie with a wmi filter to check if the computers in my domain have this installed. Check if a software is installed in remote machine. But is it possible for the group policy to only apply to systems that have mozilla firefox installed.
This means youre only going to get data on softwarepackages installed using msi. Installed software is configured by the software inventory section in. Subselect wql query to find pcs that do not have either x86 or. Wql queries collection where sofware x is not installed. Comma separated value list of caption software name, installdate and installdate2 fields. Link the latter wmi filter to your gpo you want to target to all servers except terminal servers, and youre done.
I know that many applications will not report the registry value. Sccm collection query for machine that dont have microsoft office. Windows management instrumentation wmi is a special system interface that provides an access for windows components and external applications to the system information that includes software inventory data. Wmi installed query different from addremove programs list. Get the name of installed antivirus using powershell today m when i was playing with the wmi, i have found a cool wmi class and namespace, the class is antivirusproduct and the namespace is root\securitycenter2, when you query the namespace, this will show you the name of the antivirus installed on your laptop. How to query wmi with command line cmd and batch file. This is something i use often when i simply want to find out what kind of software is installed on a system. Dr if you already know about cmpivot and remote powershell and wmi, skip ahead to the cmpivot queries. Script get the name of installed antivirus using powershell. I have found a much better search faster and more accurate is to query the registry. Query to find installed location of an application with sql or wql. Subselect query for sccm queries or collections wql.
Wmi is often used for computer and network inventory and reporting. If you dont have sccm 0712 then im sorry to say this wmi class doesnt exist. Script is using wmi query to get information of installed antivirus products. In this blog post i am going to play with wmi objects on the local computer and on remote computers. Wql query for installed application with installation date. To confirm if nvidia wmi is already installed, simply look in the list of programs available to change or uninstall in the control panel under programs and features heading.
How to create a collection of computers by installed software. Wmi tasks for computer software obtain information such as which software is installed by the microsoft windows installer msi and software versions. In order to build a moreorless reliable list of applications that appear in the programs and feautres in the control panel, you have to consider that not all applications were installed using msi. Complete wmi query guide with wmi explorer, powershell, cmd. Getting a list of installed applications seems like something a lot of windows admins would like to do. For this you can use the wmi query condition within the tasks of your task. Scope during your osd task sequence you may want to determine whether the machine is a laptop or not, install software to a specific machine name format, or install drivers to only specific models of laptops. A wmi filter is a set of wmi queries the wmi query language wql is used that you can use to target computers to which a specific group policy should be applied. Group policy and wmi, a wonderful combination simple talk. This script is updated recently to query 32bit as well as 64bit applications installed on remote computers.
Check if a software is installed by using wmi query. I have used this to check what software wmi reports as installed when checking against what spiceworks finds as installed. Gathering installed software using powershell microsoft. Checking domain computers for specific software installed.
Powershell makes it really easy to query the registry using getitemproperty. The first thing you will notice about this method, is that it takes a very. I need to add a condition into a software task sequence so that an uninstall cmd line will only run if a particular piece of software is installed, lets say adobe acrobat. For example, query all computers in an ad domain for list of installed. Csv output can be easily read into excel for further sorting and analysis. Script information about installed antivirus software on. Currently, the software unstalls the software and then partially reinstalls the application. The gpo using the wmi filter does not work on first boot, but on the second boot at first boot, the gpp environment has to be processed, but that happens after wmi filters have been evaluated, so our variable is. Information about installed antivirus software on local or remote machines script is checking status of installed avtivirus software on local or remote machines. If you want to do an inventory of all installed software in your active directory domain, then keep on reading my post. Execute any wmi query for one or more computers instantly. Find installed software using wmi and stdregprov one thing i wouldnt do though is to rely on scripting techniques, powershell or otherwise to service as a. Sccm cmpivot has been introduced in sccm 1806 and its making its way to be a pretty useful addition.
Inverting wmi filters what you can do, should do and. Download the file by clicking download or obtain software button and saving the file to a folder on your hard drive make a note of the folder where the downloaded file is saved. The below powershell function check the uninstall location and returns true if a given program is installed and returns false if not installed. Im having a hard problem with a wmi filter and maybe you can lend me a hand. Group policy and wmi, a wonderful combination if youre faced with having to deploy software to those pcs that are, say, from a particular manufacturer, are laptops with windows 7, or almost any other criteria, you can use group policy if you use the option to. Wmi query for an installed application windows hell. The version of office 365 installed is 64bit but not sure if im looking in the right place. Today i created this custom query to help look for devices which do not have a specified software installed.
I needed to quickly create a collection based on appx not installed on workstations. I need to check if the software is already installed prior to installing the software via sccm 2007. For example, using the wmi gpo filter, you can apply a policy linked to an ou only to computers. Nvidia wmi nvwmi is a graphics and display management and control technology. Collection of computers that dont have software x installed. I usually dont have to much trouble with wmi queries but this one proving a. This information can be accessed through a commandline using windows management instrumentation commandline wmic. Create a collection of pcs that have appx installed then create a second collection excluding the installed. I would like to check if the software is already installed on the system prior to the install commencing and if is is installed the software not install. Check if a program is installed or not by checking registry. I would store the collected information into a hash table. Sccm 2012 r2 query for software not installed prompts for.
Can any helpful soul tell me what syntax i should be using. All of the systems that i support have the sccm client installed on them. Now, since we have the cm client installed, we have a much better wmi class or cim instance to query for installed software. Software task sequence wmi query for installed software. In tomorrows blog post, i will show you how to write one wql query in order to find pcs that have either x86 or x64 versions of microsoft project 2010 installed. I ended up using ccleaner and exporting that info to text filecsv format. Unfortunately, there isnt an outofthebox way to do this with powershell. Quickly export wmi query results to microsoft excel or access or sort and filter the results directly in hyena. Create a collection of computers that needs to have software x installed but doesnt have it according to hardware inventory addremove programs. Query with freeware tool wmi explorer by alexander kozlov. I am able to query for just the application i am targeting, but the date filter doesnt work, it seems. To show this, i will perform a wmi lookup for software and then show you what happens as we are receiving data from wmi on installed software from this class.
Create your own wmi queries using hyenas easy to use graphical query builder. Further, calling this class causes a repair action to be executed on every program it returns. The goal of this post is to give you a list of sccm cmpivot query examples. Microsoft office 2007 with none sp or sp1 if this is true. Task sequence condition to execute only if not installed t3chn1ck. Restricting group policy with wmi filtering windows os hub. This makes it difficult to analyze actual software use or to make projections for future software needs. How to audit installed software from the command line. I am trying to build a wql query to allow me to identify a specific arp application and sort or filter by date installed. At the moment there is support for windows xp sp3, vista sp2, 7, 8, 8. Both are acceptable answers and will lead you to same outcome. If you wanted to create a wmi query to determine whether or not a particular application was installed on a machine, how would you do it.
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