There are numerous ways of doing a Client Inventory in the Windows environment. You can use various Microsoft technologies to accomplish this, you can collect information stored in the registry or you can retrieve information through WMI.
In this post, I’m going to show how to do this through WMI and PowerShell. WMI is a versatile extension to the Windows Driver Model that provides an OS interface which components can provide information through. Both PowerShell and Vbs can retrieve information from WMI in a flexible way. Starting off, lets look at information from the OperatingSystem, this can be retrieved through the Win32_OperatingSystem class.PS > Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem SystemDirectory : C:\Windows\system32 Organization : BuildNumber : 7000 RegisteredUser : nigo SerialNumber : 00447-321-7001114-70264 Version : 6.1.7000To get even more information we can pipe it to Format-List *,which displays all information retrieved. I’ve put togheter a Script that retrieves Client Information from your computer or a remote computer and returns the information in a PsObject. If you are running the script on Remote clients, make sure that the Firewall allows remote administration, otherwise the script won’t work. The Network Inventory in this script only takes the first NetworkAdapter found and retrieves the information. if you have multiple NetworkAdapters you have to modify the script.
PS > .\Get-Inventory.ps1 . Gathering Client Information From: . UserName : GOT-ZIP-NIGO\nigo ComputerName : GOT-ZIP-NIGO ScreenModel : NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M (Prerelease - WDDM 1.1) ChassisType : Notebook ComputerManufacturer : Hewlett-Packard ComputerModel : HP Compaq 8510w SerialNumber : 00447-321-7001114-70264 RAM : 3054 MB CPU : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40GHz HDDTotal : 114471 MB HDDFreeSpace : 78976 MB OperatingSystem : Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Language : 1033 Domain : WORKGROUP IPAdress : 192.168.0.195 SubNet : 255.255.255.0 MACAddress : 00:76:E4:EE:49:00Click Here to download the script.
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