Get GUID Remotely
Recently I had to pull the GUID of a server remotely at work, I didn’t quite know how to do this off the top of my head. I found a few websites that suggested the following commands:
Get-WmiObject Win32_ComputerSystemProduct | Select-Object -ExpandProperty UUID Get-WmiObject Win32_ComputerSystemProduct -ComputerName HOSTNAME | Select-Object -ExpandProperty UUID
Both work, but I wanted to make a small powershell script where it would prompt me for the hostname and get it.
$hostname = Read-Host 'What is the hostname' Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystemProduct -ComputerName $hostname | Select-Object -Property UUID
The above worked as well, so you could just run something like .\getguid.ps1 .