Get remote registry value

Question

I have the below script that I want it to go out to multiple servers and get the value of a registry. Unfortunately it is currently just posting back the local registry value of the machine that I am running the script on.

How do I get the script to run against remote registry?

SCRIPT:

clear #$ErrorActionPreference = "silentlycontinue"  $Logfile = "C:\temp\NEWnetbackup_version.log"  Function LogWrite {     param([string]$logstring)      Add-Content $Logfile -Value $logstring }  $computer = Get-Content -Path c:\temp\netbackup_servers1.txt  foreach ($computer1 in $computer){  $Service = Get-WmiObject Win32_Service -Filter "Name = 'NetBackup Client Service'" -ComputerName $computer1      if (test-connection $computer1 -quiet)      {             $NetbackupVersion1 = $(Get-ItemProperty hklm:\SOFTWARE\Veritas\NetBackup\CurrentVersion).PackageVersion              if($Service.state -eq 'Running')             {                 LogWrite "$computer1 STARTED $NetbackupVersion1"             }             else             {                 LogWrite "$computer1 STOPPED $NetbackupVersion1"             }     }     else      {         LogWrite "$computer1 is down" -foregroundcolor RED     } } 

Answer 1

You can try using .net:

$Reg = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey('LocalMachine', $computer1) $RegKey= $Reg.OpenSubKey("SOFTWARE\\Veritas\\NetBackup\\CurrentVersion") $NetbackupVersion1 = $RegKey.GetValue("PackageVersion") 

Answer 2

Try the Remote Registry Module, the registry provider cannot operate remotely:

Import-Module PSRemoteRegistry Get-RegValue -ComputerName $Computer1 -Key SOFTWARE\Veritas\NetBackup\CurrentVersion -Value PackageVersion