PowerShell - wmic - put only value in variable

Question

Hello,

May I kindly ask you to help me.

I would like to put in variable only "VMware Virtual Platform":

Is it possible to do this for wmic ?

Answer 1

Hi,

For this I recommend using the CIM cmdlets instead of wmic. Example below:

$csProductName = (Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_ComputerSystemProduct).Name

Here is older Get-WmiObject equivalent of above:

$csProductName = (Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystemProduct).Name

Introduction to CIM Cmdlets

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/introduction-to-cim-cmdlets/

Win32_ComputerSystemProduct class

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/cimwin32prov/win32-computersystemproduct

If above is useful please Accept Answer.

Thanks.

-TP

Answer 2

I need to somehow use wmic

Why?

Wmic.exe is an executable that issues WMI calls. It is being deprecated by Microsoft. The examples provided by @tl issue the same WMI calls and make it easier to parse the returned data. If you are writing a Powershell script, you should be using Get-CimInstance.

With WMIC you need to parse it's stdout and search for the information.

$data = wmic csproduct get name
"Array count is {0}" -f $data.Count
for ($i = 0; $i -lt $data.Count; $i++) {
    "Index = {0}, Data = {1}" -f $i, $data[$i]
}
"Here is index 2: {0}" -f $data[2]

Update: Use -Computername on the Get-CimInstance call.

Answer 3

For example. We have different servers. We have also historical servers(win2003). Now I need command for all of them(win2003, win 2012, win2016 etc). For example:

PS C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop> wmic /Node:X.X.X.X bios get serialnumber

SerialNumber

VMware-XX.XX.XX.XX.XX

But I don't need 'SerialNumber' displayed because I would like to add ony this value VMware-XX.XX.XX.XX.XX to powershell variable.

Some of these servers don't have Powershell installed (historical servers)