PowerShell script issue operators

Question

I am attempting to use PowerShell to detect Intel NIC drivers, prior to deploying the updated drivers. I changed my script a bit to troubleshoot, to make sure I am capturing th

Answer 1

String comparisons don't know anything about the inner structure of your version strings. Cast the strings to Version objects and you'll be able to do proper comparisons. Note that you need to expand the DriverVersion property for the conversion to work.

[Version]$DeployVersion = "12.15.31.0"
...
[Version]$CurrentlyInstalledDriverVersion = Get-WmiObject Win32_PnPSignedDriver |
    Where-Object {
        $_.deviceclass -match "NET" -and
        $_.devicename -like "*$INTELNICMODEL*" -and
        $_.driverversion
    } | Select -Expand driverversion