Get Software Version Powershell. Or most usefully I would argue you can get a list of computers from AD and get their installed software. Get-ADComputer -SearchBase OUITOUWorkstationsDCtheposhwolfDCcom -Filter Get-InstalledSoftware.
Vendors use WMI to provide their informations. Use PowerShell to Quickly Find Installed Software. The registry Windows PowerShell only The PSVersionTablePSVersion property.
Check installed software with remote registry query.
But if you are System Administrator and need to frequently check whether an application is installed or not the PowerShell script will be very useful in this case. Guest blogger Marc Carter reprises his popular blog post about locating installed software. Check if a Program is installed or not by checking registry. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson is here.