Question

I have to maintain a server-side script written in JScript (NOT Javascript) that needs to discover the OS of the system that it’s running on. How can I do this correctly and robustly?

Answer 1

Take a look here for all the different system information you can get.

Here’s some sample code that I threw together based on that webpage:

var wbemFlagReturnImmediately = 0x10; var wbemFlagForwardOnly = 0x20; var objWMIService = GetObject('winmgmts:\\\\.\\root\\CIMV2'); var colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery('SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem', 'WQL',                                       wbemFlagReturnImmediately | wbemFlagForwardOnly);  var enumItems = new Enumerator(colItems); var objItem = enumItems.item(); WScript.Echo('Caption: ' + objItem.Caption);