powershell - Determine Win32_OptionalFeature's Parent feature -

powershell - Determine Win32_OptionalFeature's Parent feature -

back story, in 2012-r2, powershell v4.0 have access get-windowsfeature cmdlet, works on server os. includes parent field needed populate treeview node, kid nodes keyed parent node.

get-windowsfeature | select name,displayname,installed,parent

from windows 7/8.1, cannot utilize cmdlet, doesn't run on desktop os. can see same info here, no parent id field. how can determine parent feature wmi ? open reply solves problem.

gwmi win32_optionalfeature | select name,caption,installstate

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee309383%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

in short, trying generate .csv dump gwmi command used populate treeview command based on installed features. kinda this.

not asking, microsoft provide dism utility manage optional features. have @ /get-features , /get-featureinfo switch.

here illustration on how install rsat (remote server adminitration tools)

start-process "powershell" -verb "runas" -argumentlist "-noprofile -command dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:remoteserveradministrationtools /featurename:remoteserveradministrationtools-roles /featurename:remoteserveradministrationtools-roles-ad /featurename:remoteserveradministrationtools-roles-ad-powershell"

powershell treeview powershell-v4.0 powershell-v5.0