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http://blogs.technet.com/otto/archive/2007/03/04/quick-and-dirty-software-inventory-with-psinfo-and-powershell.aspx

PsInfo is great for gathering asset information from Windows computers, both locally and remotely. PowerShell is great for automation and cleaning up output (among other things) as well as working with database driven data.

The following examples show how to gather an itemized list of the installed software on remote machines, process the data, then either display it to the screen or store it in a database. It’s worth noting that PsInfo can also work on multiple remote computers from its native command line, or even read a list of computers from a file (check out the PsInfo site for more info). Since the final example seeks to show PsInfo in a database driven envoriment, PowerShell comes in very handy.

A very cool tool and detailed very well, useful if you’re needing to quickly run an inventory of your virtual server estate, which is something you’ll need to do at some point.  I’m looking forward to more content from the blog, it looks great.

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