Get powershell version | on a single | multiple remote Computers

Get Powershell version | on a single | multiple remote computers using a simple Powershell code to get the version.

There are 3 ways you can check the PowerShell version that is installed on your computer,   let’s pull the version information using these 3 methods.

1. $PSVersinTable

This is a default variable gives you the PowerShell version information and Build version of your machine when you pass this variable in PowerShell window you get below details.

 $PSversionTable

OutPut:

Name Value
—- —–
PSVersion                               5.1.17763.771
PSEdition Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions             {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
BuildVersion                            10.0.17763.771
CLRVersion                             4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion                3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion                  1.1.0.1.

When you want to retrieve only version information then use the below variable property.

 $PSversionTable.PSVersion

output:

Major Minor Build Revision.
—– —– —– ——–
5 1 17763 771

2. Get-Host

This is a Powershell cmdlet, and it also gives the Powershell version details.

3. Powershell version using the Windows Registry:

Open the registry edit, goto Run and type in Regedit, and navigate to the path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\3\PowerShellEngine

And see the key PowerShellVersion and value data.

Getting the Powershell version on a single remote machine

Using Registry

$version = { [version](Get-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\3\PowerShellEngine -Name ‘PowerShellVersion’).PowerShellVersion } Invoke-Command -ComputerName Machine01 -ScriptBlock $version -Credential $cred

output:

Major Minor Build Revision PSComputerName
—– —– —– ——– ————–
5        1      17763 1          Machine01

Using $PSVersionTable

Invoke-Command -ComputerName DESKTOP-MYVDI10 -ScriptBlock {$PSVersionTable.PSVersion}

The above command gets the PowerShell version on the remote machine DESKTOP-MYVDI10.

Getting the Powershell version on more remote machines

Let’s check it Multiple Remote Machines

we need to create one more file for storing the all the servers or multiple machines, I named it Allserver.txt storing it in my local machine c:\temp\Allserver.tx

#create a text file which has all the list of servers and located in c:\temp\Allserver.txt

$serverlist = Get-Content -Path "c:\temp\Allserver.txt"

foreach($server in $serverlist)
{
    
    Invoke-Command -ComputerName $server -ScriptBlock {$PSversionTable.PSVersion}
}

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