Script to get OS version
I am surprised by the number of organizations still managing their many devices without a system management tool. It may not be the most efficient way, but over the years they have developed processes and procedures to manually (or semi-manually) keep up the environment running.
With the introduction of Windows 10 these manual processes have been put to the test in order to keep up with the new Windows as A Service cadence. This is especially true or organization that have opted to stay with Windows 10 Pro.
One question I have been asked often is if there is an easy way to gather the systems’s Windows 10 version and edition from the environment.
I think one of the simplest ways is using the Windows Management Interface Command ( wmic ) which is a command prompt tool available in most / all Windows OS platforms, that returns information about the system you are running it on. wmic has been around for many years, and is well know to savy system administrators. There is a lot you can do with it.
The command-line
The following command-line:
wmic os get Caption, Version, BuildNumber, OSArchitecture,CSname
produces the following output to the console (screen):
BuildNumber Caption CSName OSArchitecture Version 17134 Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise XY6V356 64-bit 10.0.17134
Finally the following command-line creates a CSV file with the information above stated and write to a file with >> drive:\filename.csv .
wmic os get Caption, Version, BuildNumber, OSArchitecture,CSname /format:csv >> c:\infofile.csv
It will look something like this:
Node,BuildNumber,Caption,CSName,OSArchitecture,Version DELL-E6330-01,18362,Microsoft Windows 10 Pro,DELL-E6330-01,64-bit,10.0.18362
You can change the file name to a shared drive and it will create an inventory of all of your devices.
Node,BuildNumber,Caption,CSName,OSArchitecture,Version Y6V356 ,17134,Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise,Y6V356,64-bit,10.0.17134 Node,BuildNumber,Caption,CSName,OSArchitecture,Version DELL-E6330-01,18362,Microsoft Windows 10 Pro,DELL-E6330-01,64-bit,10.0.18362
After you have ran it across your devices, you can import that file into excel and delete duplicates, format as needed, analyze and then take action as needed.
Other ideas:
How to get a list of installed software on the device:
wmic product get name,versionWant to get a list of all users to a csv file or table?
wmic useraccount list full /format:csv wmic useraccount list full /format:table
As you can see, there are many options and info available with the wmic command-line utility. Below are some resources you can read more about this powerful utility:
