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I am new to Powershell and I am having trouble with the following. I need to run a Get-WmiObject command and get programs and versions. Here is the code:

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | where Name -eq "Microsoft Policy Platform" | select Name, Version >> c:\Temp\PRograms.txt ;
Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | where Name -eq "Mitel Connect" | select Name, Version >> c:\Temp\PRograms.txt

I get this output:

Name                       Version    
----                       -------    
Microsoft Policy Platform  68.1.1010.0

Name          Version       
----          -------       
Mitel Connect 214.100.1252.0

What I am hoping to get is:

Name                            Version    
----                             -------    
Microsoft Policy Platform    68.1.1010.0 

Mitel Connect                214.100.1252.0

I have tried making it 1 line, separate commands, google and looking at like scripts with no luck. I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction so I can build on it.

CodePudding user response：

Just preform the WMI query once, and return both programs, and output them both to the text file at once.

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | where {$_.Name -in ("Microsoft Policy Platform", "Mitel Connect")} | Add-Content c:\Temp\Programs.txt

CodePudding user response：

Get-package would be much faster in this case, even than using -filter with wmi.

get-package 'Microsoft Policy Platform','Mitel Connect' | 
  select name,version | export-csv programs.csv