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[Kazendar]

How to get "Computer Description" from stations on network ?

 

[Lundkvist]

You could get it by reading it straight from the registry on the remote machine(s).

$Machine = "MachineToCheck"
$reg = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey("LocalMachine",$Machine)
$regKey= $reg.OpenSubKey("System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\lanmanserver\\parameters")
$regkey.GetValue("srvcomment")

 

[monsterjta]

You could use a one-liner.

gwmi -query "select Description from Win32_OperatingSystem" | select-object Description

Remote computer.

gwmi -computer [i]computername[/i] -query "select Description from Win32_OperatingSystem" | select-object Description

Remote computer, passing credentials.

gwmi -computer [i]computername[/i] -credentials [i]domain\username[/i] -query "select Description from Win32_OperatingSystem" | select-object Description

HTH,

Jonathan Almquist