Question:
Is there a way to get another machine on your networks HKLM ? I imagine you would use a pdrive for this but I was unable to get a command working successfully
Answer:
There are a few ways to do it but how you do it depends on the environment you have.
1) Probably the easiest way is to use invoke-command
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Ex. Invoke-command -computer RemoteComputerName {Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run} |
This would work if you have sufficient permission on the remote machine, WinRM is configured for you to connect to it.
2) You can use .net registry classes
See this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.win32.registrykey.aspx
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$registry = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey('LocalMachine', 'RemoteComputerName') $registryKey= $registry.OpenSubKey("Software") |
3) You use PSDrive as shown in the Scripting Guy blog
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/05/07/use-the-powershell-registry-provider-to-simplify-registry-access.aspx
4) You can use WMI Registry
http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/powershell/wmi-and-the-registry/