Hello everybody.

I'm making a script to read certain information from the registry of a remote computer, such as when windows updates were last installed.

PS> $registry = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey("LocalMachine","vistacomputer")
PS> $les= $registry.OpenSubKey("Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update\Results\Install")
PS> $les.getValue("LastSuccessTime")

I'm running the script from my domain controller and "out" to the computer in the domain. My domain controller runs windows server 2008 r2. The script works when I run it against my exchange server which is the same operating system. However, when I run it against Windows Vista I cannot get it to work:

Error message:

Exception calling "OpenRemoteBaseKey" with "2" argument(s): "The network path was not found.


When running the script locally on the Vista computer it works fine, so the problem has to be the connection between the two computers. I can ping the Vista computer from the domain controller.

Thank you in advance.

sounds like a firewall issue. is there a firewall installed on the vista computer?

also, you may try it with WMI:

$HKLM = 2147483650

$reg = GWMI -list -namespace root\default -computername vistacomputer| where-object { $_.name -eq "StdRegProv" }
$key = $reg.GetStringValue($HKLM,"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update\Results\Install","LastSuccessTime")