Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

Inventory system configuration

When cataloging your environment, it is also important to inventory the system configuration. To fully document your environment, information such as the network configuration, local users, and service state is necessary. This information is useful when recreating your environment in a DR scenario, or simply for a Dev/Test environment.

In this recipe, we will be returning the configuration for a basic Windows Server.

Getting ready

For this recipe we will be using a Windows Server 2012 system.

How to do it...

Perform the following to gather the system information:

1. Retrieve the network configuration

   $TargetSystem="." $myCim = New-CimSession -ComputerName $TargetSystem Get-NetIPAddress -CimSession $myCim Get-NetRoute -CimSession ...