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Howto identify a SEVERCORE installation in WS 2012 for GPO filtering (now that OperatingSystemSKU is useless)?

Answered Howto identify a SEVERCORE installation in WS 2012 for GPO filtering (now that OperatingSystemSKU is useless)?

  • Tuesday, January 29, 2013 2:30 PM
     
     
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    In previous versions you could identify CORE installations from the OperatingSystemSKU attribute in the Win32_OperatingSystem class. Reference:

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd184083.aspx

    This is no longer possible, the attribute does not differ. Is there any WQL statement to distinguish "Full Server", "Minimal Server Interface" and "Core"?

    Right now I helped myself by quering "c:\windows\explorer.exe", whicht does not exist in Core. But this is not as useful as a WMI/WQL query.

    Thorsten

     

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  • Tuesday, January 29, 2013 8:04 PM
     
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    > This is no longer possible, the attribute does not differ. Is there
    > any WQL statement to distinguish "Full Server", "Minimal Server
    > Interface" and "Core"?
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    > Right now I helped myself by quering "c:\windows\explorer.exe", whicht
    > does not exist in Core. But this is not as useful as a WMI/WQL query.
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    Why not? It is a valid workaround (select * from cim_Datafile where
    name="c:\\windows\\explorer.exe")
     
    But anyway - win32_serverfeature should do the trick:
     
    regards, Martin
     
    NO THEY ARE NOT EVIL, if you know what you are doing: Good or bad GPOs?
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    • Marked As Answer by Thorsten _ Wednesday, January 30, 2013 8:26 AM
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  • Wednesday, January 30, 2013 7:17 AM
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  • Wednesday, January 30, 2013 8:29 AM
     
     
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    I do think that "win32_serverfeature" is indeed a good approach supplementary to the explorer.exe query.

    Thanks for the answer, Martin!

    Thorsten