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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 FREE CHAPTER 2. Administration of Configuration Manager through PowerShell 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

Scenario 3 – using PowerShell to get the Configuration Manager installation directory

One of the most common automation tasks that we carry out for Configuration Manager is the Configuration Manager health check framework. This primarily involves detecting the Configuration Manager installation directory.

It is not good practice to use the installation directory variable as static, but it is always advised that you make the variable dynamic, so that the script becomes more flexible and reusable. This example shows how PowerShell can be used to access the Configuration Manager installation directory:

Set-Location 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Identification\ Installation Directory'
$AllProp = Get-ItemProperty -path "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Identification\ Installation Directory"
$InstallDir = $AllProp."Installation directory"
Write-Host "$InstallDir"

You can use Set-Location only if you are not specifying the full path for the Get-ItemProperty...

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