How to find out what roles are running on servers running Windows Server?

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Good afternoon everyone :)
I have at my disposal a fleet of six dozen servers, mostly on Windows Server. I updated the documentation, I decided to describe what roles a separate server performs.
Logging in to each server manually and watching roles is too long and dreary, so I'm looking for a simpler option. I decided not to reinvent the wheel, but to turn to you, can anyone come across this? Servers from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008R2

Answer 1

You need to understand that the installed service does not mean that the server has been assigned a role. This service can be disabled for example.
IMHO a dead end idea. It is better to do a normal revision once.
And so, the software shaft. Full of scripts. But they only give a list of installed software.
Again, this is just when the servers are in a domain. And if not, various difficulties arise.

Answer 2

For 2008+ servers there is a WMI class Win32_ServerFeature.
So you can use Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ServerFeature -ComputerName $computerName.
For 2003 I don't even know. I haven't used them for a long time.