{"id":4572,"date":"2015-10-23T09:23:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T13:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=4572"},"modified":"2015-10-23T09:27:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T13:27:35","slug":"what-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/powershell\/4572\/what-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here's a quick way to tell whether a given machine is real or not: check the Win32_Baseboard class. You can use either <a title=\"Read online help for Get-WmiObject\" href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/p\/?linkid=290505\" target=\"_blank\">Get-WmiObject<\/a> or <a title=\"Read online help for Get-CimInstance\" href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?linkid=287299\" target=\"_blank\">Get-CimInstance<\/a>. Notice the results from a few physical machines.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/102315_1323_WhatAreYou1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now see the result when querying a Hyper-V virtual machine:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/102315_1323_WhatAreYou2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don't have any VMware available so I don't know what kind of result that would show. I also haven't done extensive testing with items like a Microsoft Surface. I threw together this simple function you could use.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:ps decode:true \" >#requires -version 4.0\r\n\r\nFunction Test-IsVM {\r\n[cmdletbinding()]\r\nParam(\r\n[Parameter(\r\n ValueFromPipeline,\r\n ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName,\r\n HelpMessage = \"Enter the name of a computer\")]\r\n[ValidateNotNullorEmpty()]\r\n[string]$Computername = $env:COMPUTERNAME\r\n)\r\n\r\nBegin {\r\n    Write-Verbose \"Starting: $($MyInvocation.Mycommand)\"  \r\n    $paramHash = @{\r\n        ClassName = 'Win32_Baseboard'\r\n        ErrorAction = 'Stop'\r\n}\r\n} #begin\r\n\r\nProcess {\r\n    Write-Verbose \"Querying $computername\"\r\n    Try {\r\n        $paramHash.ComputerName = $Computername\r\n        $data = Get-CimInstance @paramHash\r\n        if ($data.Product -match \"virtual\") {\r\n            $True\r\n        }\r\n        else {\r\n            $False\r\n        }\r\n    }\r\n    Catch {\r\n      Write-Warning \"$($computername.ToUpper()) : $($_.Exception.message)\"\r\n    }\r\n} #process\r\n\r\nEnd {\r\n    Write-Verbose \"Ending: $($MyInvocation.Mycommand)\"\r\n} #end\r\n\r\n} #end function<\/pre>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/102315_1323_WhatAreYou3.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick way to tell whether a given machine is real or not: check the Win32_Baseboard class. 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