Step 3: Verify Program Installation (an optional informative step)

With our WMIC prompt, we can ask many questions of a node (or nodes) and receive some nicely formatted replies. Though formatting the replies is beyond the scope of this "How To", much more information can be found on the internet.

So let's find out if a particular node even has our target software (Spiceworks does attempt to list this information in its software scan)

>/node:COMPUTERNAME product get name,version,vendor

This command asks WMI to reply with a list including the Name, Version, and Vendor of all compliant software installations.

If you would like to filter for a specific product, you may do so. Here's an example scanning a networked machine for all installed applications from the vendor "Apple, Inc"

>/node:ANOTHEREXAMPLE product where vendor="Apple Inc." get name,vendor

(*Note from Anders4221:

A small hint if you have special characters like '-' or '/' in the computer name you need to use ' ' characters in order to get information from client)

(**Note from Joe3034:

Here is how you use wildcards in your search:

Surround the like phrase in double quotes and your search criteria in single quotes, and use % as the wildcard symbol.

e.g.:

/node:ComputerXYZ product where "vendor like 'adobe%'" get name,version,identifyingNumber )