Noob scripting help

[Shambler]

The script pasted below finds and echo's the Description field within Win32_BIOS in WMI.

I'm trying to find the significance of "objOS".

Anyone have a quick and simple answer for me?

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\Cimv2")

Set colBIOS = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select Description from Win32_BIOS")
For Each objOS in colBIOS
Wscript.Echo "Computer Name: " & objOS.Description
Next

 

[jiminator]

as a guess colBIOS will be the data source and objOS will be an instance of that data. there is a lot of other data available via that api, look here for an example :
http://www.visualbasicscript.com/How-to-read-values-from-DOS-window-m64622.aspx

 

[tgabe213]

colBIOS seems to be a collection of objects returned by that query, and objOS is the name used when iterating through each of the objects in that collection.

 

[Shambler]

as a guess colBIOS will be the data source and objOS will be an instance of that data. there is a lot of other data available via that api, look here for an example :
http://www.visualbasicscript.com/How-to-read-values-from-DOS-window-m64622.aspx

Okay that is a great start for me.
Alright, figured out what I was missing. I didn't adjust my Select statement. The following post will contain my new problem/question.

 

[Shambler]

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\Cimv2")

Set colBIOS = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_BIOS")
For Each objBIOS in colBIOS
Wscript.Echo "Description: " & objBIOS.Description
Next

The above script kicks out the Description without issue. However, the below script does not kick out the BIOSVersion. Error returned is a Type Mismatch.

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\Cimv2")
Set colBIOS = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_BIOS")
For Each objBIOS in colBIOS
Wscript.Echo "BIOS Version: " & objBIOS.BIOSVersion
Next


What am I missing?