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    This document discusses several ways to find the Windows version of a remote machine on the same network: 1. The systeminfo command can be used with the /s parameter and the remote computer name. 2. The Srvinfo command from Windows Server resource kits can also retrieve the product name and version. 3. Nmap can perform remote OS detection, though it may not always be 100% accurate. 4. PowerShell commands like Get-CimInstance and Get-ADComputer allow querying multiple remote machines simultaneously.

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    Finding the Windows version of a remote machine in the same network

    How do I find the version of another Windows machine in the local network?

    windows

    asked Jul 18 '11 at 21:43


    shane
    145 1 1 5

    related: How can I determine the OS of a remote computer? – Lưu Vĩnh Phúc Oct 26 '16 at 6:11

    6 Answers

    As Josh King noted you can use srvinfo which is a Windows 2003 Resource Kit tool.

    On Windows 7 you can use systeminfo

    systeminfo /s remote_computer_name

    answered Jul 18 '11 at 21:57


    squillman
    4,850 2 19 33

    Thanks for that, was trying to find a non server alternative but my Google wasn't strong enough! – Windos
    Jul 18 '11 at 22:05

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    If you have access to one of the Windows Server resource kits (2003 for sure, not sure about
    newer versions) you can use the Srvinfo command.

    Srvinfo \\remote_compute_rname

    You'll get a host of information from it, but what you're interest in is:

    Product Name: Microsoft Windows XP Product Options: Professional

    answered Jul 18 '11 at 21:51


    Windos
    8,423 2 26 51

    Thanks. Works for localhost but not for the other machines possibly because I'm not the admin in the
    network. Is there a workaround? – shane Jul 18 '11 at 22:02

    1 @shane If you are not an admin, there is no program that will give you that info. – KCotreau Jul 18 '11 at
    23:39

    nmap can perform remote OS detection.

    It's not 100% accurate, but you'll have to see for yourself.

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    01/08/2017 Finding the Windows version of a remote machine in the same network - Super User
    Here is an example result. I specifically picked a result that wasn't 100% accurate, but this
    machine is a Windows Server 2008.

    Warning: OSScan results may be unreliable because we could not find at least 1 open and
    1 closed port
    Device type: general purpose
    Running (JUST GUESSING): Microsoft Windows Vista|2008|7 (98%)
    Aggressive OS guesses: Microsoft Windows Vista SP0 or SP1, Server 2008 SP1, or
    Windows 7 (98%), Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (98%), Microsoft Windows 7
    Professional (97%), Microsoft Windows Vista Business SP1 (93%), Microsoft Windows
    Vista Home Premium SP1 (93%), Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 (91%), Microsoft
    Windows Vista Home Premium SP1, Windows 7, or Server 2008 (91%), Microsoft Windows
    7 (90%)
    No exact OS matches for host (test conditions non-ideal).

    answered Mar 1 '12 at 0:42


    Oliver Salzburg
    61.2k 45 207 265

    Thank you [squillman] :)

    While you have so many machines to be inspected, just do this:

    (1) Create TXT file contains all hostnames of your machines. Eg: ALL-
    MACHINES.TXT

    machine_number_0001
    machine_number_0002
    machine_number_0013
    machine_number_0101
    machine_number_0111

    (2) Do FOR instruction within CMD:

    C:\Users\MrCMD> FOR /F %S IN ('TYPE ALL-MACHINES.TXT') DO SYSTEMINFO /S %S [enter]

    (3) Any comments for improvement are welcome. :)

    answered Mar 1 '13 at 7:34


    Rhak Kahr
    171 4

    To get just the hostname and OS from systeminfo pipe in findstr, this eliminates the
    other noise

    systeminfo /s [machine name]|findstr /i "host OS "

    edited Oct 12 '16 at 22:48 answered Oct 12 '16 at 19:47


    DavidPostill ♦ NetDreamz
    78.3k 21 161 187 11 1

    For those coming here that need to do many machines and want to use PowerShell:

    Single Machine: Get-CimInstance Win32_OperatingSystem -ComputerName Machine


    Name | Select-Object CSName, Caption, BuildNumber, OSArchitecture

    All Machines: Get-ADComputer -filter * | Foreach-Object {Get-CimInstance


    Win32_OperatingSystem -ComputerName $_.name -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-
    Object CSName, Caption, BuildNumber, OSArchitecture} | Format-Table -Property * -
    AutoSize

    Assuming of course you have WinRM enabled. You can batch enable WinRM via PS too but
    that's another topic.

    answered May 6 '16 at 0:17


    Justin Emlay
    106 5

    https://superuser.com/questions/312120/finding-the-windows-version-of-a-remote-machine-in-the-same-network 2/2

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