{"id":10051,"date":"2006-07-06T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2006\/07\/06\/revisiting-listing-all-the-com-automation-progids\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:21:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:21:34","slug":"revisiting-listing-all-the-com-automation-progids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/revisiting-listing-all-the-com-automation-progids\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting: Listing all the COM automation PROGIDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the blog entry Listing all the COM automation PROGIDs <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/powershell\/archive\/2006\/06\/29\/650913.aspx\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/powershell\/archive\/2006\/06\/29\/650913.aspx<\/a>&nbsp;. I showed how you could use the registry to get all the progids that you can use for COM automation.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a way to do the same thing via WMI (which allows you to do it to remote machines):<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Courier New\" color=\"#000080\" size=\"1\"><strong>Get-WMIObject Win32_ProgIDSpecification |<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; Sort ProgID |<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Format-Table ProgID,Description -auto<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font face=\"Courier New\" color=\"#000080\" size=\"1\">Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]<br \/>Windows PowerShell Architect<br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell<\/a><br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx<\/a><\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PSMDTAG:FAQ:&nbsp; COM Progids &#8211; How do I know which&nbsp;I can use (answer 2)?<br \/>PSMDTAG:FAQ: COM Progids &#8211; How can I see a description associated with&nbsp;them? <br \/>PSMDTAG:TYPE:COM: progids<br \/>PSMDTAG:TYPE:WMI: Win32_ProgIDSpecification<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the blog entry Listing all the COM automation PROGIDs http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/powershell\/archive\/2006\/06\/29\/650913.aspx&nbsp;. I showed how you could use the registry to get all the progids that you can use for COM automation. Here is a way to do the same thing via WMI (which allows you to do it to remote machines): Get-WMIObject Win32_ProgIDSpecification |&nbsp;&nbsp; Sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,10,36,26],"class_list":["post-10051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell","tag-com","tag-faq","tag-win32_progidspecification","tag-wmi"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In the blog entry Listing all the COM automation PROGIDs http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/powershell\/archive\/2006\/06\/29\/650913.aspx&nbsp;. I showed how you could use the registry to get all the progids that you can use for COM automation. Here is a way to do the same thing via WMI (which allows you to do it to remote machines): Get-WMIObject Win32_ProgIDSpecification |&nbsp;&nbsp; Sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}