mostly a dumping ground for powershell scriptlets

ciminstance / cimsession replacing wmi so heres how to get various information as it comes up

network
get-ciminstance -computername $computer win32_Networkadapter -filter "netconnectionstatus = 2" | Select name,speed

serial
Get-CimInstance -ComputerName $computer -class win32_bios | Select SerialNumber

os
Get-CimInstance Win32_OperatingSystem -ComputerName $computer | Select-Object Caption

processor
Get-CimInstance Win32_Processor -ComputerName $computer | Select-Object DeviceID, Name

memory
(Get-CimInstance Win32_PhysicalMemory -ComputerName $computer | Measure-Object -Property capacity -Sum).sum /1gb