Need to return the properties of a Powershell cmdlet (get-wmiobject) in variables

Question

In Powershell I run a get-wmiobject on Win32_OperatingSystem, and it returns several properties through the select-object cmdlet. How to I get the values loaded to variables instead of a list,since I need to further process them? I tried several methods without avail. If I can get this accomplished without the select-object cmdlet, that would also work.

get-wmiobject -namespace root\CIMV2 -class Win32_OperatingSystem -computername $servername | Select-Object SystemDirectory,caption,BuildNumber

Answer 1

It seems you know how to assign variables, so I'm not sure what the hang up is here. You would simply run the GWMI command as the value of a variable such as:

$Results = get-wmiobject -namespace root\CIMV2 -class Win32_OperatingSystem -computername $servername

Then reference the properties of the object you just created such as:

$Results.SystemDirectory
$Results.caption
$Results.BuildNumber