The default Windows environment variables acts like a drive within powershell. You can poll the available Windows environment variables just like you were getting the contents of a drive or folder. Open a PowerShell console and run the following:
1 2 | Set-location env:\ get-childitem |
This will return all of the local environment variables, similar to the following:
Name                          Value ----                          ----- Path                          C:\Program Files\PHP\;C:\Program Files\Support Tools\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;... TEMP                          C:\DOCUME~1\admini\LOCALS~1\Temp\1 SESSIONNAME                   RDP-Tcp#1 PATHEXT                       .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.PSC1 USERDOMAIN                    HOME PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE        x86 SystemDrive                   C: APPDATA                       C:\Documents and Settings\admini\Application Data windir                        C:\WINDOWS ALLUSERSPROFILE               C:\Documents and Settings\All Users TMP                           C:\DOCUME~1\admini\LOCALS~1\Temp\1 USERDNSDOMAIN                 HOME.COM USERPROFILE                   C:\Documents and Settings\admini ProgramFiles                  C:\Program Files FP_NO_HOST_CHECK              NO HOMEPATH                      \Documents and Settings\admini COMPUTERNAME                  SERVER2 USERNAME                      admini NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS          2 PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER          x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 6, GenuineIntel ClusterLog                    C:\WINDOWS\Cluster\cluster.log SystemRoot                    C:\WINDOWS ComSpec                       C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe LOGONSERVER                   \\SERVER2 CommonProgramFiles            C:\Program Files\Common Files PROCESSOR_LEVEL               6 PROCESSOR_REVISION            0806 CLIENTNAME                    LVSUP900 PHPRC                         C:\Program Files\PHP\ OS                            Windows_NT HOMEDRIVE                     C:
You can take advantage of these variables by setting the desired environment variable to a PowerShell variable and then using it in your script. Here is an example of pulling the local computer name and setting it to a variable in PowerShell:
1 2 | PS $computername = get-content env:computername PS $computername |
SERVER2
Many thanks!