Hi All, I am trying to figure out a way to find the version of OS remotely, either with some Registry search or SNMP get. I would like to know is a group of servers are running Standard or Enterprise edition. Anyone know of a way? Thanks, Roberto

You can use this PowerShell script: http://portal.sivarajan.com/2010/07/user-profile-and-os-info-powershell.html Just remove the user profile section. Santhosh Sivarajan | MCTS, MCSE (W2K3/W2K/NT4), MCSA (W2K3/W2K/MSG), CCNA, Network+ Houston, TX Blogs - http://blogs.sivarajan.com/ Articles - http://www.sivarajan.com/publications.html Twitter: @santhosh_sivara - http://twitter.com/santhosh_sivara This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Hello, In case that you don't yet use powershell yet you can just use the WmiObject win32_operatingsystem. BR.RipPle

You should also be able to query AD for this, eliminating the need to connect to each computer remotely. The operatingSystem attribute of computer objects will have values like "Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard". You could query AD for all computers where the operatingSystem attribute has the string "server" and either "standard" or "enterprise". I have an example VBScript program that retrieves all servers linked here: http://www.rlmueller.net/Enumerate%20Servers.htm The LDAP syntax filter used in this program is: (&(objectCategory=computer)(operatingSystem=*server*)) This could be revised, perhaps to: (&(objectCategory=computer)(operatingSystem=*server*)(operatingSystem="standard")) or even (since only computer objects have the operatingSystem attribute): (operatingSystem=Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard) The strings are not case sensitive. You could add the operatingSystem attribute to the comma delimited list of attributes to retrieve, then in the loop where the resulting recordset is enumerated, you can output the value of operatingSystem. The result could be as follows, to find all computers with a "standard" "server" OS: Option Explicit Dim objRootDSE, strDNSDomain, adoConnection, adoCommand, strQuery Dim adoRecordset, strComputerDN, strBase, strFilter, strAttributes Dim strOS ' Determine DNS domain name from RootDSE object. Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE") strDNSDomain = objRootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext") ' Use ADO to search Active Directory. Set adoCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command") Set adoConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") adoConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject" adoConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider" adoCommand.ActiveConnection = adoConnection ' Search entire domain. strBase = "<LDAP://" & strDNSDomain & ">" ' Filter on computer objects with standard server operating system. strFilter = "(&(objectCategory=computer)(operatingSystem=*server*)(operatingSystem=*standard*))" ' Comma delimited list of attribute values to retrieve. strAttributes = "distinguishedName,operatingSystem" ' Construct the LDAP syntax query. strQuery = strBase & ";" & strFilter & ";" & strAttributes & ";subtree" adoCommand.CommandText = strQuery adoCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 100 adoCommand.Properties("Timeout") = 30 adoCommand.Properties("Cache Results") = False Set adoRecordset = adoCommand.Execute ' Enumerate computer objects with standard server operating systems. Do Until adoRecordset.EOF strComputerDN = adoRecordset.Fields("distinguishedName").Value strOS = adoRecordset.Fields("operatingSystem").Value Wscript.Echo strComputerDN & " (" & strOS & ")" adoRecordset.MoveNext Loop ' Clean up. adoRecordset.Close adoConnection.Close A very similar PowerShell script can be coded, using the same LDAP syntax filters. Richard Mueller - MVP Directory Services

Here is another Script. You can read more info in the follwoing thread: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverDS/thread/4256c1e7-2491-4513-ab6f-70dee63a8d24/#cb77041f-6778-4dfc-9cc9-bf59a9d202a3 Option Explicit Dim oFSO, sFile, oFile, strComputer, objWMIService, colOSes, obJOS Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") sFile = "C:\input.txt" If oFSO.FileExists(sFile) Then Set oFile = oFSO.OpenTextFile(sFile, 1) Do While Not oFile.AtEndOfStream strComputer = oFile.ReadLine Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colOSes = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem") For Each objOS in colOSes Wscript.Echo "Computer Name: " & objOS.CSName Wscript.Echo "Caption: " & objOS.Caption 'Name Wscript.Echo "Version: " & objOS.Version 'Version & build Wscript.Echo "Build Number: " & objOS.BuildNumber 'Build Wscript.Echo "Build Type: " & objOS.BuildType Wscript.Echo "OS Type: " & objOS.OSType Wscript.Echo "Other Type Description: " & objOS.OtherTypeDescription Next Loop oFile.Close Santhosh Sivarajan | MCTS, MCSE (W2K3/W2K/NT4), MCSA (W2K3/W2K/MSG), CCNA, Network+ Houston, TX Blogs - http://blogs.sivarajan.com/ Articles - http://www.sivarajan.com/publications.html Twitter: @santhosh_sivara - http://twitter.com/santhosh_sivara This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties, and confers no rights.