Introducing Configuration Manager through PowerShell

The main intention of this chapter is to give you a brief idea of how to use PowerShell with Configuration Manager and not to make you an expert with all the cmdlets. With the goal of introducing Configuration Manager admins to PowerShell, this chapter mainly covers how to use PowerShell cmdlets to get the information about Configuration Manager configurations and how to create our own custom configurations using PowerShell. Just like you cannot get complete information of any person during the first meet, you cannot expect everything in this chapter.

This chapter starts with an assumption that we have a well-built Configuration Manager environment. To start with, let's first understand how to fetch details from Configuration Manager. After that, we will create our own custom configurations. To stick on to convention, we will first learn how to fetch configuration details from Configuration Manager followed by a demonstration of...