Posts Tagged ‘remote’

Registry access from 32 to 64 bit and back

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 by Alex Riedel
Just recently, I received an email asking how you can access the 64 bit registry from a 32 bit script, or vice versa. The task…   More »

Read Remote Registry Function

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 by Jeffery Hicks
Hopefully you found my last entry valuable. But I always like to take things a step further, especially when it comes to scripting and automation. So I turned my last script into a function that returns the value of a specified registry key   More »

Remote Registry Reading the VBScript Way

Monday, February 11th, 2008 by Jeffery Hicks
Last week I blogged about using REG.EXE in a batch file to read a registry key. The batch file I provided works, but the output is limited. You could probably parse it a bit more to get it in some other format. But I’d probably turn to VBScript and WMI if I wanted better output control or if I had more complicated needs.   More »

Got-PowerShell Revisited

Monday, January 28th, 2008 by Jeffery Hicks
Last week I showed a PowerShell function that used WMI to remotely query a machine to determine if PowerShell was installed. Well, like most things Microsoft there’s often more than one way to accomplish a task. Here is a different version of essentially the same function. This version, however, uses the .NET framework and the Microsoft.Win32.Registry class.   More »


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