BgInfo support for PowerShell commands and scripts

Tyrone Wyatt 171

Please add PowerShell command and script support to BgInfo.

BgInfo currently supports many legacy methods for data collection such as environment variables, registry value, WMI query and VB scripts.

Modern system administrators and IT professionals now use PowerShell for data collection.

PowerShell execution can take longer then existing methods but with caching and optimization PowerShell would make a great feature.

Noral Kuhlmann 36 Reputation points

2022-08-12T16:09:53.547+00:00

Agreed, now that BGInfo is being regularly updated adding PowerShell is a must for any I.T. engineer.
Alexey Vinogradov 26 Reputation points

2022-09-19T16:52:12.06+00:00

Fully support with PS availability in BgInfo. It will make BgInfo more convenient to use in regular usage and in testing.
Paul Boyer 31 Reputation points

2022-12-14T15:38:17.443+00:00

Adding PowerShell functionality to BGInfo is a must. Currently, leveraging the power of PowerShell is relegated to writing a custom PS script and then composing another VBS script to call the PowerShell file. This is clunky, ugly, and probably bad practice. It also results in the PowerShell console window being visible momentarily when BGInfo executes the VBS script, despite using the -WindowStyle Hidden parameter for PowerShell. Please update the custom scripting functionality in BGInfo to leverage the go-to, modern scripting language of IT pros in the 2020s.
Bryan Thomas 0 Reputation points

2023-09-05T20:08:05.2233333+00:00

please do the needful.
Bryan Thomas 0 Reputation points

2023-09-05T20:08:39.38+00:00

please do the needful
Gary Becker 5 Reputation points

2024-04-22T15:38:40.5533333+00:00

Now that vbscript support is being deprecated in W11, will this be updated to support powershell?
Brian Somerfield 5 Reputation points

2024-06-27T22:39:26.9533333+00:00

I am looking for a solution s well.
What I am intending to do in the Interim is user powershell as my logon script, which will generate output to a series of txt files saved in the users %TMP% folder.
Then execute the bgi file, configured to read the txt files as the custom variables, instead of executing a vb script.

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