Determining 32/64 bit in Powershell

Question

I am trying to create a couple lines of code that will pull from WMI if a machine is either 32/64 bit and then if it is 64 do this .... if it is 32bit do this...

Can

Answer 1

There's two boolean static methods in the Environment you can inspect and compare, one looks at the PowerShell process, one looks at the underlying OS.

if ([Environment]::Is64BitProcess -ne [Environment]::Is64BitOperatingSystem)
{
"PowerShell process does not match the OS"
}