I am looking for a powershell comand to find the version of internet explorerer installed on pc on the network?  We need a minimal version of Interent Explorer 8 to be used on workstations and want to find out which ones have it and which don't. 

here you go:

gc Servers.txt | foreach

{ [system.diagnostics.fileversioninfo]::GetVersionInfo("\\$_\C`$

\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe") }

If you need a quick list of all the computers on your network to feed to that:

net view |% {if ($_ -match "^\\\\(\S+)"){$matches[1]}}

 

I tried your it out but am told this by Powershell:

PS C:\servers> gc Servers.txt | foreach

cmdlet ForEach-Object at command pipeline position 2
Supply values for the following parameters:
Process[0]: { [system.diagnostics.fileversioninfo]::GetVersionInfo("\\$_\C`$
Process[1]: \program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe") }
Process[2]:
ForEach-Object : Cannot bind parameter 'Process'. Cannot convert the "{ [system.diagnostics.fileversioninfo]::Ge
nInfo("\\$_\C`$" value of type "System.String" to type "System.Management.Automation.ScriptBlock".
At line:1 char:25
+ gc Servers.txt | foreach <<<<
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [ForEach-Object], ParameterBindingException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConvertArgumentNoMessage,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ForEachObjectCommand

 

You can also get it from the registry:

Invoke-Command -ComputerName (gc Servers.txt) {$env:COMPUTERNAME + " - "+ (Get-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer').Version}

 

it should be all in one line and servers.txt should have the pcs you want to check for:

gc Servers.txt | foreach {[system.diagnostics.fileversioninfo]::GetVersionInfo("\\$_\C`$\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe") }

when I run the registry command locally without the invoke-command I get mixed results. It returns version 9.11.9600.18015.  I open IE and view About it shows version 11.  I look at the registry and version number is 9.11.9600.18015.  But the svcVersion key shows 11.0.9600.18015 which agrees with the About view.  The different versions show 9600.18015 if the matters.   svcUpdateVersion is 11.0.23.   Any thoughts on why I am not getting the installed version?  Thanks