Is there a way to check if a computer account is XP?

[kennysarmy]

After doing some testing it appears I could speed up logon times be removing some XP group policies, however I want to ensure no XP PC's / laptops are still lurking.

 

Is there a quick way to dump all active computer accounts to a list which includes what flavour of OS they are?

 

Cheers

[FN-GM]

You can do it powershell not sure on the commands of top of my head.

 

You could use search in AD, see attached.

 

 

[ICTonto]

You can run a dsquery on the command line against active directory to find a) stale computer records and b) the operating system of the workstation, Sample Query On Link

[kennysarmy]

Thanks

[sonofsanta]

Alternatively, leave your XP policies in place and use WMI filters so Windows 7 machines ignore them (and the XP machines ignore Win7 policies) - still a slight processing load but nowhere near as much as actually processing the settings.

 

In Namespace root\CIMv2, the following query is for Windows XP:

select * from Win32_OperatingSystem where Version like "5.1%" and ProductType = "1"

And Windows 7 is:

select * from Win32_OperatingSystem where Version like "6.1%" and ProductType = "1"

 

Windows Vista is 6.0 and Windows 8 is 6.2 on the Version like, if you're rolling them.

[plexer]

You can do it with a query in Active Directory Users and Computers.

 

Ben

[kennysarmy]

Alternatively, leave your XP policies in place and use WMI filters so Windows 7 machines ignore them (and the XP machines ignore Win7 policies) - still a slight processing load but nowhere near as much as actually processing the settings.

 

In Namespace root\CIMv2, the following query is for Windows XP:

select * from Win32_OperatingSystem where Version like "5.1%" and ProductType = "1"

And Windows 7 is:

select * from Win32_OperatingSystem where Version like "6.1%" and ProductType = "1"

 

Windows Vista is 6.0 and Windows 8 is 6.2 on the Version like, if you're rolling them.

 

 

Hi, I do use this, but I've discovered that it still takes time for the windows 7 PC to process the fact it has to do nothing:

 

On a test windows 7 PC with all user policies disabled it took 13 seconds to logon and with the XP policies only enabled it took 20 seconds.

I verified by Group Policy Results that they were nt applying.

 

This was on a reasonably fast PC so the time savings on some older PC's running windows 7 should be greater.

[sonofsanta]

Hi, I do use this, but I've discovered that it still takes time for the windows 7 PC to process the fact it has to do nothing:

 

On a test windows 7 PC with all user policies disabled it took 13 seconds to logon and with the XP policies only enabled it took 20 seconds.

I verified by Group Policy Results that they were nt applying.

 

This was on a reasonably fast PC so the time savings on some older PC's running windows 7 should be greater.

 

Fair enough, and interesting to know - thanks for the data.

[ADMaster]

Out of curiosity what policies apply to XP but not 7?

 

Thanks,

[kennysarmy]

When we started migrating to windows 7 I decided to keep things as seperate as possible for testing purposes to write all new policies for windows 7 rather than just keep using old policies:

 

The names of those that apply to only windows XP are :

 

Lockdown

Desktop Redirection

Office

PreventRemoveable Media

ScreenSaverLock

Browser Settings & Startup Programs

 

There are of course now similar policies that are only directed to Windows 7 computers.