Powershell to get a computer description (as in My Computer)

• drew.georgopulos

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  November 28, 2011 at 3:53 pm

  #248736

  Hi;

  I get the computer name from posh using Get-Content env:computername

  but what i want is the description of the computer name as seen when you right click My Computer, the thing is i dont know what the computer description is called from WMI

  Thanks a lot for your help

  drew

• bruce 1565

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  November 29, 2011 at 11:09 am

  #1414259

  Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_OperatingSystem |Select Description

• drew.georgopulos

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  November 29, 2011 at 12:56 pm

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  Thanks very much, i really appreciate it.

  drew