This article can help you to get the details of your operating system with PowerShell. Here we go.
Step 1. Open PowerShell with elevated privileges.
Step 2. To check operating system name.
(Get-WMIObject win32_operatingsystem).name
Step 3. To check if the operating system is 32-bit or 64-bit.
(Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem).OSArchitecture
Step 4. To check machine name.
(Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem).CSName
I have run the following commands on PowerShell version 5.1
How to Get Operating System Details with PowerShell
How would I do that with a remote machine?
Passing PS the user, password, and machine name
$credential = Get-Credential
Invoke-Command $addr -ScriptBlock {
(Get-WMIObject win32_operatingsystem).caption
} -Credential $credential