I am working on a HealthCheck script that will check if a specific application is installed and verify the version number of the app, and verify id the service for that app is running. For testing purposes I am manually setting the application name (appName) look look for as well as the desired version (appTargetVer) and the service name(appSvc). Once working, I will pull this data from a CSV so I can check multiple apps we feel are critical on each workstation, I set it manually to one specific app for development\testing purposes.
In my script I am passing the the $appName and $appTargetVer to the AppInstallStatus function, determining if the app is installed, checking that the installed version is >= to the appTargetVer, and then saving the desired data to a PSCustomObject. I then return that object in hopes of being able to use that data.
Unfortunately, I am unable to access any of the properties of that returned object. I know the function works as I tested and it does the check properly. But once i assign the function to a variable in order to store the returned object, I can not access any of the object properties.
Testing like this returns good results:
#Test that function workingAppInstallStatus $appName $appTargetVer 
But when I assign to a variable, I can not access any of the properties.
$InstallInfo = AppInstallStatus $appName $appTargetVer Write-host "why is there no data in here: $($InstallInfo.ApplicationName)"
Any assistance you can provided would be greatly appreciated. Ultimately I will be assigning some of the properties from this object, as well as other objects from other functions, to an object that will store all the needed results that can let our techs know that a workstation is missing an app or requires an updates version, etc. I will then output that all to a file that can be stored as evidence. But First I need to be able to access the individual properties of the object before I move on to doing anything else. FYI - I know there are application that will do compliance checking but the boss wants something like this for some silly reason, so I'm stuck cobbling together a script to do what Intune/Tanium/etc should all already be able to do for us.
Here is the full code for this part of the health check:
$appName = "Trend"$appTargetVer = 14.0$appSvc = "ntrtscan"Function AppInstallStatus{ param( $appName, $appTargetVer ) $AppInstTest = Get-CimInstance Win32_Product | Where-Object {$_.Name -match $appName} |Select-Object -Property Name,Vendor,Version,Caption if($AppInstTest.Name -match $appName){ $InstallStatus = $true if($AppInstTest.Version -ge $appTargetVer){ $VerStatus = $true $CurVer = $AppInstTest.Version } else{ $VerStatus = $false } } else{ $InstallStatus = $false } #$AppStatObj = New-Object -TypeName psobject -Property @{ $AppStatObj = [PSCustomObject]@{ AppNameTest=$appName AppTargetVerTest=$appTargetVer ApplicationName = $AppInstTest.Name ApplicationCurrentVer = $AppInstTest.Version AppInstallStatus = $InstallStatus ApplicationVersionStatus = $VerStatus } | Format-List return $AppStatObj}Function AppService{ param( $appSvc ) $AppTest = Get-Service -Name $appSvc if($AppTest.Status -match "running"){ $AppSvcStatus = $true } else{ $AppSvcStatus = $false } return $AppSvcStatus}#Test that function working#AppInstallStatus $appName $appTargetVer #save to a variable to access individual properties of returned object$InstallInfo = AppInstallStatus $appName $appTargetVer AppService $appSvcWrite-host "why is there no data in here: $($InstallInfo.ApplicationName)"