WMI and Get-CimInstance can provide you with a lot of useful information but the returned objects often contain a number of empty properties:
PS> Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem | Select-Object -Property *
Also, properties aren’t necessarily sorted. You can fix both by identifying and sorting the properties that are not empty:
# get all WMI information $os = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem # find names of non-empty properties $filledProperties = $os.PSObject.Properties.Name.Where{![string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($os.$_)} | Sort-Object # show non-empty properties only $os | Select-Object -Property $filledProperties
