Recently I tried to run the following code to determine the current version of Windows and which, whilst not actually being precise, gave me a sufficiently accurate answer for my purposes. A single line PowerShell script wrapping slmgr. Sometimes it's useful for a script to know about the environment in which it's running. cmd Windows Version Activation Status: Windows(R), Professional edition: Der Computer ist dauerhaft aktiviert.

Whilst this issue was fixed several months ago, the fix has still not been released so, in lieu of that, here is a more reliable way to get the current OS version which borrows from the code written to test the new version. So I put together a PowerShell script that can be used to get the Windows version for a local or remote computer (or group of computers) which includes the Edition, Version and full OS Build values. It didn't work as expected and I discovered that PowerShell Core doesn't return an accurate value when you ask it the current version of the Windows operating system on Windows 10, PowerShell Core tells you it's running on Windows 8. The other day I was working on a (still-unpublished) article related to setting up your Windows development environment for SSL and I decided (for the first time) to use PowerShell Core to run one of the scripts.

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