My latest article on PowerShell Magazine is on how to access the registry on a remote system. This is a technique I have used in a number of my scripts, for example: Get-RemoteProgram. The full article containing tips on how to use the Microsoft.Win32.Registry class is available on PowerShell Magazine : Access remote registry using PowerShell

The following example will retrieve the SubKeyNames of HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet on the Server1 system:

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$Reg = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey([Microsoft.Win32.RegistryHive]::LocalMachine,'Server1') 
$RegSubKey = $Reg.OpenSubKey("System\CurrentControlSet")
$RegSubKey.GetSubKeyNames()

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