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Microsoft System Center Powershell Essentials

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Microsoft System Center Powershell Essentials

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Microsoft System Center Powershell Essentials
Apr, 2015 | 140 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft System Center PowerShell Essentials
Microsoft System Center PowerShell Essentials
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Setting up the Environment to Use PowerShell
Setting up the Environment to Use PowerShell
The purpose of this book
The target audience
Why use PowerShell?
PowerShell version references
Setting up the System Center Configuration Manager environment
Setting up the System Center Operations Manager environment
Setting up the System Center Service Manager environment
Summary
2
Administration of Configuration Manager through PowerShell
Administration of Configuration Manager through PowerShell
Introducing Configuration Manager through PowerShell
Hierarchy details
Asset and compliance
Software distribution
The operating system deployment
Software update management
Summary
3
Scenario-based Scripting for SCCM Administration
Scenario-based Scripting for SCCM Administration
Scenario 1 – adding multiple distribution points to a distribution point group
Scenario 2 – creating multiple packages with the .csv/.txt file input
Scenario 3 – using PowerShell to get the Configuration Manager installation directory
Scenario 4 – checking for SCCM services
Scenario 5 – operating a system deployment precheck
Scenario 6 – running a ping test
Scenario 7 – getting a list of primary sites in the Configuration Manager environment
Scenario 8 – getting a list of all site servers in the Configuration Manager environment
Scenario 9 – getting component status in Configuration Manager
Scenario 10 – installing the SCCM client agent version
Summary
4
Administration of Operations Manager through PowerShell
Administration of Operations Manager through PowerShell
Monitoring
Authoring
Administration
Summary
5
Scenario-based Scripting for SCOM Administration
Scenario-based Scripting for SCOM Administration
Resolving all SCOM alerts
Listing and exporting all SCOM monitors
Listing and exporting all SCOM overrides
Listing and exporting gray agents in SCOM
Finding management pack details for a particular alert
Listing past alerts
Backing up unsealed management packs
Counting alerts created by a monitor
Enabling specific SCOM monitors
Listing all updated management packs
Listing and exporting repeating SCOM alerts
Getting SCOM alerts specific to a computer
Listing all unhealthy SCOM agents
Disabling SCOM alerts
Listing all heartbeat failure machines
Listing all management server open alerts
Listing management servers in the maintenance mode
Listing the health status of management servers
Putting an IIS 7 application in the maintenance mode
Summary
6
Administration of Service Manager through PowerShell
Administration of Service Manager through PowerShell
SMlets
Incident reporting
Auto closing the resolved incidents and closing the completed changes
Changing the status of a service request
Summary
7
Scenario-based Scripting for SCSM Administration
Scenario-based Scripting for SCSM Administration
Adding classes to the SCSM allow list
Exporting management packs
Backing up unsealed management packs
Manual activity and service request check
Tickets status check
Support group and tier queue check for multiple tickets
Updating field information for a number of users
Finding GUID of any SCSM template
Getting queue members for SCSM
Summary
8
Best Practices
Best Practices
Integrating SQL commands with PowerShell
SCCM health check activities
Data warehouse registration
Summary
Index
Index

Software update management

PowerShell provides you cmdlets to get the details of software updates. This section covers cmdlets that we can use to update management activities.

Software catalog details

PowerShell provides you a way to list the software patches available in the Configuration Manager catalog using the Get-CMSoftwareupdate cmdlet. This will list all the updates present in the catalog with the default attributes:

Get-CMSoftwareUpdate

You can also query individual updates with the name of the patch as the attribute to the cmdlet. By specifying the name of the update, you can get complete details of the particular patch or update:

Get-CMSoftwareUpdate –Name "Cumulative Software Update for Internet Explorer"

We can also save the specified software update, which is part of the particular package, to a specified location:

Save-CMSoftwareUpdate –DeploymentPackageName "Finance Updates" –SoftwareUpdateGroupName "Finance Package Updates" –Location "\\SCCMP01\SP"

We can create a software...

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