I was wondering if there was a way to remotely differentiate between Windows Home and Windows Pro.  Scanning via, say nmap, only tells me if it's Windows XP vs Windows 7, etc.  The whole purpose of this is to not only create an updated and detailed database of all of PC's on the network, but to know which ones I need to upgrade to Pro so that they can be added to a Windows domain.

How about


(or whatever the home string looks like, don't have access to one at the moment)

I did something similar in the past looking for a list of machines with specific hotfix (WMIC QFE) by creating a ping sweep and outputting results to a txt file containing just the ip addresses and using that as a source for the WMIC command by replacing machinename above with @ip_addresses.txt

*Edit* or Dynamik's solution would work too. Different strokes... I like WMIC a lot

Yea, for sure. I just couldn't remember what the query was and didn't feel like searching


It certainly appears very close. I guess that simplifies things a bit...


systeminfo is a built in utility. Just type it in at the command prompt and see what you get. psexec was only recommended in conjunction in order to execute it on remote systems.

Now that I look at it, systeminfo /? shows that you can use it on remote systems too. I guess I failed all over this thread

lol Noo, you got me going on my way  I've been playing around with psexec/systeminfo all day and will probably go this route as I'm more comfortable with this than WMIC.  JGamblin replied on Twitter as well:


Now my issue is that the network didn't have any standard in configuring new PC's so there is no standard/common admin account to use to query machines for system information.  That's over 200 machines

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...thanks!  I gave that a shot on some of the machines here and it works pretty well!  There were a few that it wouldn't report whether it was Home or Pro, but most did.  This will help a lot until I can get around to all of the computers and setup a standard admin account (unless there's another way??)...

Not presently   Updating the network is one of the reasons I was specifically hired for, but management doesn't want to play nice (if it's not broken, then why "fix" it).  So as I'm making plans for the upgrade to the network on paper, I'm showing my manager all the ways it'd save time and money as I go through my day to day duties (most recently an issue with an Excel update that caused most users issues when printing graphs).

I understand that each of these will float out of his memory as time goes, so at the same time I'm taking note of all these things I talk to him about so that I can present them all in one big presentation at a later date...for the bigger impact.