PowerShell for IT Inventory: Getting All Installed Apps from Remote Windows PCs
Software inventory is one of those jobs that sounds simple until you need to do it across many Windows machines. For audits, license checks, cleanup work, or troubleshooting, I want a repeatable way to answer one question: what is installed, and where? This post uses PowerShell to build that report. The workflow is: get a target computer list from DNS, connect to each machine, read installed-app registry keys, and export the result to CSV. ...