Richard Siddaway's Blog

A recent post on the powershell.com site asked about running a Windows command (batch) file through PowerShell against remote machines. The batch file was expected to produce a number of files of data in a folder structure based on computer name. This makes it difficult as we could in theory run the batch file through remoting (not actually tried it) but writing to a file share isn’t easy.

I decide to convert the batch file to PowerShell.  The first part uses a number of basic Windows commands to generate data. This function supplies exactly the same functionality

function get-basicdata{             
[CmdletBinding()]             
param (             
   [string]$computer="localhost"             
)             
BEGIN{}#begin             
PROCESS{            
            
Write-Verbose "Get Operating System"            
$os = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_OperatingSystem -ComputerName $computer            
            
Write-Verbose "Get Computer System"            
$comp = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem -ComputerName $computer            
            
Write-Verbose "Get IP Address"            
$ip = Test-Connection -ComputerName $computer -Count 1            
            
Write-Verbose "Read registry entry"            
$HKLM = 2147483650 #HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE            
            
$reg = [wmiclass]"\\$computer\root\default:StdRegprov"            
$key = "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\rdp-tcp"            
$value = "MinEncryptionLevel"            
$minlvl = $reg.GetDwordValue($HKLM, $key, $value)  ## REG_DWORD            
            
Write-Verbose "Create Object"            
$obj = New-Object -TypeName PSObject            
$obj |            
Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name OperatingSystem -Value $($os.Caption) -PassThru |            
Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name ServicePack    -Value $($os.CSDVersion) -PassThru |            
Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Version       -Value $($os.Version) -PassThru |            
Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Domain       -Value $($comp.Domain) -PassThru |            
Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Name       -Value $($comp.Name) -PassThru |            
Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name IPv4Address -Value $($ip.IPV4Address.IPAddressToString) -PassThru |            
Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name MinEncrypt -Value $($minlvl.uValue)            
            
$obj            
            
}#process             
END{}#end            
            
}

All we do is make a few calls to WMI classes and we get the results into an object as shown.

To produce a file use

The contents look like this

OperatingSystem : Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate

ServicePack     : Service Pack 1

Version         : 6.1.7601

Domain          : WORKGROUP

Name            : RSLAPTOP01

IPv4Address     : 127.0.0.1

MinEncrypt      : 2

That covers the basic data.  Need to look at services and TCP ports next