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Microsoft System Center Powershell Essentials

You're reading from   Microsoft System Center Powershell Essentials Efficiently administer, automate, and manage System Center environments using Windows PowerShell

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784397142
Length 140 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Setting up the Environment to Use PowerShell 2. Administration of Configuration Manager through PowerShell FREE CHAPTER 3. Scenario-based Scripting for SCCM Administration 4. Administration of Operations Manager through PowerShell 5. Scenario-based Scripting for SCOM Administration 6. Administration of Service Manager through PowerShell 7. Scenario-based Scripting for SCSM Administration 8. Best Practices Index

Hierarchy details

This section will concentrate on how to get the Configuration Manager site details and how to craft our own custom hierarchy configurations using PowerShell cmdlets. This involves knowing and configuring the site details, user and device discovery, boundary configurations, and installation of various site roles.

Site details

First and foremost, get to know the Configuration Manager architecture details. You can use the Get-CMSite cmdlet to know the details of the Configuration Manager site. This cmdlet without any parameters will give the details of the site installed locally. To get the details of the remote site, you are required to give the site name or the site code of the remote site:

Get-CMSite 
Get-CMSIte –SiteName "India Site"
Get-CMSite –SiteCode P01

Discovery details

It is important to get the discovery details before proceeding, as it decides the computer and the users that Configuration Manager will manage. PowerShell provides the Get-CMDiscoveryMethod...

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Microsoft System Center Powershell Essentials
Published in: Apr 2015
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781784397142
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