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Getting Information from Other Clients Using Get-WMIObject

Today on PowerShell.com, I helped out a new user to PowerShell extract information from his remote clients.  Two things that struck me.  1. He needed to use the legacy Get-WMIObject cmdlet.  That means no PowerShell remoting, which is what I prefer. 2. He needed to be able to write the information to a CSV file.  Normally there is nothing wrong with that except that one piece of information had the potential to return multiple MAC addresses.  A CSV could not handle that on its own so I had to write up some simple code to address this data and put it in a form that Export-CSV could utilize. First off, the code. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 9