Determining Windows version

[Theo Welles]

Hi All

I need to determine what version of Windows and what Service Pack is running
on remote clients using a batch script.

What .dll/.exe should I look for in order to do this?

Thank you!

Theo

 

[Roger Joyner]

Theo,

Right click on My Computer on the Desktop. Then select
Properties. The Windows version is listed under General.

 

[Roger Joyner]

Sorry Theo, My first post is probably not the answer to
your question. Apparently I didn't completely read your
message.

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

Hi All

I need to determine what version of Windows and what Service Pack is running
on remote clients using a batch script.

What .dll/.exe should I look for in order to do this?

Hi

Some tools that might help you:

1)
PSInfo.exe (local/remote) in the in the free PsTools suite found at
http://www.sysinternals.com/

2)
Console Computer Information Utility for 2000/XP
http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/compinfo/compinfo.htm

3)
AIDA32 is also an option:

http://www.aida32.hu/aida32.php

It can do automatic audit (e.g. using a logon script) via command-line
switches and save results to a file in various formats like HTML, CSV
or XML, or put it in a database (it has ADO/ODBC database support)

5.1 Command-line Mode
http://www.aida32.hu/proguide/en/proguide.htm#commandline_mode

AIDA32 network audit in practice
http://www.aida32.hu/aida-articles.php?n=002&lang=en

Using SQL databases for AIDA32.
http://www.aida32.hu/aida-articles.php?n=003&lang=en


4)
If you want to script it yourself, using a registry read is the easiest way

For a vbscript example (for local computer only), take a look at the functions
GetOsVersionNumber and GetSPNumber here:

http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

For a batch script, you could use reg.exe instead (local and remote) to obtain
the registry values.


Using WMI/VBSript, you could also get this information from local and remote
computers.

Here is a link to a script
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

that will give you this type of information/output:

OS version: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
SP version: Service Pack 2
OS language: English
Regional Settings for user is set to: Norway