Powershell – How to get cluster information remotely via Powershell

While this is technically possible, there's probably a better way to go about it.

And speaking of better ways to go about it, You could do this in a GPO with a few lines of code as a startup or shutdown script, which is how I handle this. With a few more lines of code you could log the results of checking for the presence of this thing and/or uninstalling it, which would undoubtedly be useful in your compliance efforts.

If a GPO-linked startup/shutdown script's not an option for whatever reason, I think I'd use PSExec to kill the process on a list of computers read in from file and then script the uninstall in an appropriate language. Seem to me that this is a lot easier in VB, for example.

a=WshShell.RegRead("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{2318C2B1-4965-11d4-9B18-009027A5CD4F}\UninstallString")

If a<>"" Then

WshShell.Run(a&" /S"),1,True
i=i+1

end if

(Goodbye Google Toolbar, in that example which I wrote or copied a few years back. Copied, probably. I am rather lazy.)

Without debugging the PS script you copied, I'd point out that you might be running a different PS version, different PS modules installed/loaded and/or there might be some dependencies that your XP machines don't have in place that's causing problems.

This will not work for everyone, but I found that my specific NIC came with a provider for powershell. The namespace I could use was

    root\IntelNCS2

Intel provides a scripting reference for using the WMI objects that are provided, and gives a brief description of each, in this PDF.

Basically, to get RSS information for a NIC, you need to get the IANet_AdapterSettings WMI object, and look at the "Receive Side Scaling" or "Receive Side Scaling Queues".

    Get-WmiObject -Namespace "root\IntelNCS2" -Class IANet_AdapterSetting | Where-Object {$_.description -eq "Receive Side Scaling"}
    Get-WmiObject -Namespace "root\IntelNCS2" -Class IANet_AdapterSetting | Where-Object {$_.description -eq "Receive Side Scaling Queues"}

Once you get this information, you can handle it any way you want. Don't forget you can pipe the output into Get-Member to find methods/properties available for the object.