Have you looked at the OperatingSystemSKU property? This is a property added in Vista to support the distinction between Vista Home, Ultimate, Business, etc ... http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa394239.aspx
OperatingSystemSKU Data type: uint32 Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) number for the operating system. Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows NT 4.0: This property is not available. Possible SKU values are: Value Meaning 0 Undefined 1 Ultimate Edition 2 Home Basic Edition 3 Home Basic Premium Edition 4 Enterprise Edition 5 Home Basic N Edition 6 Business Edition 7 Standard Server Edition 8 Datacenter Server Edition 9 Small Business Server Edition 10 Enterprise Server Edition 11 Starter Edition 12 Datacenter Server Core Edition 13 Standard Server Core Edition 14 Enterprise Server Core Edition 15 Enterprise Server IA64 Edition 16 Business N Edition 17 Web Server Edition 18 Cluster Server Edition 19 Home Server Edition 20 Storage Express Server Edition 21 Storage Standard Server Edition 22 Storage Workgroup Server Edition 23 Storage Enterprise Server Edition 24 Server For Small Business Edition 25 Small Business Server Premium Edition -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 11:00 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] WMI and >Vista If one wanted to build a WMI query that would capture Vista "and" any other workstation OS after Vista... how would one build that query? I know that this will capture Vista: Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem where Version = "6.0.6000" But will this catch any version of Vista after XP if, on the odd chance they change the build number? I know that you can also add a ProductType=1 that captures the workstation only and not servers..... But how can you build a WMI query string for Group policy filtering that is smart enough to capture Vista OS and whatever comes out after Vista (and yes, they are already looking for ideas for the next version see Steve Riley's blog with questions about firewalls in the next version if you don't believe me.... http://blogs.technet.com/steriley/archive/2007/01/18/it-s-your-turn-what-imp rovements-would-you-like-in-windows-firewall-and-ipsec.aspx Also, can you do: select * from Win32_OperatingSystem where Caption contains "Vista" ? List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ma/default.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ma/default.aspx
