Chapter 1, Setting up the Environment to Use PowerShell, gives you an idea about the purpose of this book, and how to set up the environment with required modules for three products, SCCM, SCOM, and SCSM.

Chapter 2, Administration of Configuration Manager through PowerShell, focuses on administration activities for Configuration Manager, such as inventory, discovery, alert management, and so on.

Chapter 3, Scenario-based Scripting for SCCM Administration, gives you an insight into SCCM real-time applications by giving various scenarios, which are explained with the help of the required code blocks.

Chapter 4, Administration of Operations Manager through PowerShell, focuses on administration activities for Operations Manager, such as monitoring, authoring, basic administration, and so on.

Chapter 5, Scenario-based Scripting for SCOM Administration, gives you an insight into SCOM real-time applications by providing various scenarios, which are explained with the help of the required code blocks.

Chapter 6, Administration of Service Manager through PowerShell, focuses on the administration activities of Service Manager, such as the use of SMlets, incident reporting, managing service requests, and so on.

Chapter 7, Scenario-based Scripting for SCSM Administration, gives you more insight into SCSM real-time applications by providing various scenarios, which are explained with the help of the required code blocks.

Chapter 8, Best Practices, focuses on real-time applications, which can be used to derive best practices for these three products.

You need to have these products to take full advantage of this book:

If you are a Microsoft System Center administrator who manages System Center environments and utilizes the console for management, then this book is ideal for you. This book is also for System Center users who now want to learn how to manage systems using PowerShell.

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "For example, we will refer to the parent installation folder as C:\Program Files(x86)."

A block of code is set as follows:

$UserRoleArgs = @{
  UserRoleType = "ReadOnlyOperator"
  DisplayName = "restricted role"
  Queue = @()
  Group = @()
  Task = @()
  User = "PSLAB\SCSMUser01"
  }
New-SCSMUserRole @UserRoleArgs

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

PS C :\> cd "C:\Program Files(x86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager\AdminConsole\bin"

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "In the Service Manager console, click on Administration."

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