How to find the installed .NET version on your management server

Boring Toolbox v5 server requires .NET 4.7.2 and if you do not have it installed the installer will prompt you to install it and reboot your management server. 

If .NET 4.7.2 is already installed you may not need to reboot your management server.  This will allow you to install Boring Toolbox server with no disruption to operations.  Below are two methods to identify if you have .NET 4.7.2 installed.

Powershell

• Windows Start menu, search for powershell
• Open powershell application
• Use the following command

Get-ChildItem 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP' -Recurse | Get-ItemProperty -Name Version, Release -ErrorAction 0 | where { $_.PSChildName -match '^(?!S)\p{L}'} | select PSChildName, Version, Release

This should output something which looks like the following.  You are looking for version 4.7.03062 which is the same as .NET 4.7.2.

Command Prompt

• Windows Start menu, search for cmd
• Open command prompt application
• Use the following command

reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v4\full" /v version

This should output something which looks like the following.  You are looking for version 4.7.03062 which is the same as .NET 4.7.2