Greetings PerlMonks,

$^O will give the OS Name (ie: MSWin32) but how do I determine if it's Windows 2003 or 2008?
I'd like to use something easy like: 
#!C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe -w

use Config;
use strict;

print "\nOS name: ".$Config{'osname'};
print "\nOS archname: ".$Config{'archname'};
print "\nOS version: ".$Config{'osvers'};

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but I can't seem to find anything that identifies the system I'm using as a Windows 2008 OS without going to extraordinary lengths like: 
#!C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe -w

use Win32::OLE qw(in with);

$host = "127.0.0.1";

$WMI = Win32::OLE->new('WbemScripting.SWbemLocator') ||
 die "Cannot access WMI on local machine: ", Win32::OLE->LastError;

$Services = $WMI->ConnectServer($host) ||
 die "Cannot access WMI on remote machine: ", Win32::OLE->LastError;

$os_set = $Services->InstancesOf("Win32_OperatingSystem");

foreach $os (in($os_set)) {
  $os_name         = $os->{'Caption'};
}
print "$os_name\n";

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... which gives me "Microsoft<< Windows Server<< 2008 Enterprise

Is there an easier way?

In reply to Finding OS Version and Win2K8 by neo1491

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