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Powershell get windows version
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powershell get windows version
  1. #POWERSHELL GET WINDOWS VERSION HOW TO#
  2. #POWERSHELL GET WINDOWS VERSION INSTALL#

** Commands to Check for WMF 4.0 wmic qfe get hotfixid | find "KB2819745" These examples are all based on using cmd.exe to run the commands. You check to see what version of Windows Management Framework (WMF) is installed by identifying the KB number of the version you are checking for and then using, in this case, a wmic query, to determine if that KB number has been installed. While $ seems to report the accurate version of WMF.

#POWERSHELL GET WINDOWS VERSION INSTALL#

So as you can see, the version for $ only seems to change on the WMF 4 install and then stays at 3. NET 4.5 and WMF 4 installation: Name Value I would like to argue that $PSVersionTable.PSVersion is the most reliable indicator of the version of WMF.

powershell get windows version

I know this is an old question, but for others that find this from a Google Search: Is the WS-Management stack the same thing as WMF? Googling suggests they are closely related, but I'm not sure if the answer to that is yes. The $PSVersionTable.WSManStackVersion variable might be what I want, but the official short description of that property shows it as representing the WS-Management stack. Update2: Based on all the information I've gathered now and my better understanding, I'm fairly certain that PowerShell's built-in variable $PSVersionTable.PSVersion is not technically the answer to this, but that it is often (sometimes? always? not sure) the same, as in the versions might go hand-in-hand. This resulted in another question: What do the contents of PowerShell's $PSVersionTable represent?. I finally realized recently that this is a PowerShell variable (maybe 'PS' prefix should have given it away for me, but it didn't) and tried to dig deeper. Update: Some people seem to think that " $PSVersionTable" (and/or various properties of it) is an answer. If you know of any tags that work better than what I have, please comment or retag I couldn't find anything that described this question well. There will be other Windows Server operating systems as well. The one I'm starting with is Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard.

powershell get windows version

There are multiple computers I want to check this on. That question starts off the same, but it seems to ask for a specific way of checking to be used in a GPO perhaps that is why it got no answers. The closest thing I could find was here on serverfault: Methods to Detect version of Windows Management Framework. Is there a registry key for it? Is there a file I can check? Anything?

#POWERSHELL GET WINDOWS VERSION HOW TO#

I just want to know how to check it at all, in any reasonable way. It's not in appwiz.cpl, and regedit doesn't find anything for "Windows Management Framework" and it finds too much extraneous stuff for "wmf" Even Googling a bunch of different versions of the question turns up little to nothing. How do you check to see what version of Windows Management Framework (WMF) is installed? It seems like it should be a simple thing to find out, but I cannot.













Powershell get windows version