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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

Asset and compliance

This section will mainly concentrates on gathering information and how to get details of devices, users, compliance settings, alerts, and so on. It also demonstrates how to create custom collections, add special configurations to collections, create custom client settings, install client agents, approve agents, and so on.

Collection details

Getting the collection details from PowerShell is as easy as using the console to get the details. You can use the Get-CMDeviceCollection cmdlet to get the details of the available collection. We can use the basics by using Format-Table with the autosize parameter to get the neat view:

Get-CMDeviceCollection | Format-Table –AutoSize

We can also use the grid view to get the details popped out as a grid. This will give us a nice grid that we can scroll and sort easily:

Get-CMDeviceCollection | Out-GridView

We can use Name or CollectionID as the parameter to get the information of a particular collection:

Get-CMDeviceCollection &...
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