This has been done a lot of times, by multiple people.
I thought it was about time to share my function with you which allows you to list installed applications / programs on remote (Windows) devices.
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function Get-RemoteApplication { [CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$true)] param( [Parameter( ValueFromPipeline=$true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true, Position=1 )] [string[]]$ComputerName = $env:COMPUTERNAME ) begin { $RegistryPath = 'SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\', 'SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\' } process { foreach ($Computer in $ComputerName) { $Registry = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey([Microsoft.Win32.RegistryHive]::LocalMachine,$Computer) foreach ($RegPath in $RegistryPath) { ($Registry.OpenSubKey($RegPath)) | foreach { $_.GetSubKeyNames() | ForEach-Object { $ApplicationName = ($Registry.OpenSubKey("$RegPath$_")).GetValue('DisplayName') if ([bool]$ApplicationName) { New-Object -TypeName PSCustomObject -Property @{ 'ComputerName' = $Computer 'Application' = $ApplicationName } } } } } } } } |