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PowerShell – Finding ConfigMgr Collections and Members

Posted on8 January 20148 January 2014Leave a comment

The below script provides a simple and quick method to find ConfigMgr Collections and its members. The script has a -Name parameter that accepts the exact or part of the collection name. Next all collections that match the name are Read More …

ConfigMgr OSD – Enable .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows 8.1

Posted on14 December 201311 Comments

Windows 8.1 has the .NET Framework 4.5.1 enabled by default. If you need .NET Framework 3.5 which also includes support for .NET 3.0, and 2.0, then you must enable the feature as it is not enabled by default.However to enable Read More …

ConfigMgr PowerShell Script to check if Application or Program is allowed to run in TS without being deployed

Posted on8 November 20138 November 20131 Comment

Kind of a long title for a blog post, but I could not come up with something shorter to describe the content of this blog post. The below script shows the status of the “Allow this Application / program to Read More …

PowerShell Script to detect ConfigMgr Task Sequence unfriendly Software Updates

Posted on6 November 201315 June 20141 Comment

Update: 15 Une 2014 – Added KB2965788 If you’re dealing with ConfigMgr and OS Deployment task sequences you’re probably aware of the KB article recently published by Microsoft called “Task sequence fails in Configuration Manager if software updates require multiple Read More …

ConfigMgr – PowerShell Script to collect remote log files

Posted on13 October 20131 Comment

Looking at a client’s ConfigMgr Agent log files is inevitable when managing a Configuration Manager infrastructure. If you are working within a local area network only, then you will most likely just connect to the remote systems configuration manager log Read More …

ConfigMgr–Failed to get following optional attributes warning in adsysdis.log

Posted on9 October 20139 October 20131 Comment

Should you ever get a warning message in your adsysdis.log that starts with WARN: Failed to get following optional attributes then you have probably added an additional active directory object attribute to your Active Directory System Discovery but the value Read More …

ConfigMgr–Compliance Baseline for BranchCache on Windows 8

Posted on8 October 20138 October 20133 Comments

Here’s a ConfigMgr Compliance baseline that checks the BranchCache configuration on Windows 8 clients. With the release of Windows 8 and Server 2012 Microsoft also made available PowerShell cmdlets for BranchCache, so creating a script based configuration item in ConfigMgr Read More …

List ConfigMgr Software Update Group members with PowerShell

Posted on22 September 20131 Comment

The below script allows you to select a Configuration Manager software update group and then lists the software updates that are assigned to it.

&lt;#
.Synopsis
   Lists assigned software updates in a configuration manager 2012 software update group
.DESCRIPTION
   Lists all assigned software updates in a configuration manager 2012 software update group that is selected 
   from the list of available update groups or provided as a command line option
.EXAMPLE
   Get-UpdateGroupcontent.ps1
.EXAMPLE
   Get-UpdateGroupcontent.ps1 -UpdateGroup "Win7x64_12_11_15"


#&gt;

[CmdletBinding()]


param(


    # Software Update Group
    [Parameter(Mandatory = $false, ValueFromPipeline=$true)]
    [String] $UpdateGroup
    )


$SiteCode = "POC"

Function Get-UpdateGroupcontent
{


# Check that youre not running X64
if ([Environment]::Is64BitProcess -eq $True) 
    {    Throw "Need to run at a X86 PowershellPrompt"
    }

# Load ConfigMgr module if it isn't loaded already
if (-not(Get-Module -name ConfigurationManager)) {
        Import-Module ($Env:SMS_ADMIN_UI_PATH.Substring(0,$Env:SMS_ADMIN_UI_PATH.Length-5) + '\ConfigurationManager.psd1')
   }

# Change to site
    Push-Location
    Set-Location ${SiteCode}:


#Set-CMQueryResultMaximum -Maximum 5000


if ($UpdateGroup.Length -eq 0) {
    $UpdateGroup = Get-CMSoftwareUpdateGroup | Select-Object LocalizedDisplayName | Out-GridView -Title "Select the Software Update Group " -PassThru 
    }
Else
    {
    $UpdateGroup = Get-CMSoftwareUpdateGroup | Where-Object {$_.LocalizedDisplayName -like "$($UpdateGroup)"} |  Select-Object LocalizedDisplayName 
}

$info = @()

ForEach ($item in $UpdateGroup)
{
   Write-host "Processing Software Update Group" $($item.LocalizedDisplayName)
   forEach ($item1 in (Get-CMSoftwareUpdate -UpdateGroupName $($item.LocalizedDisplayName)))
   {
    $object = New-Object -TypeName PSObject
    #$object | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name UpdateGroup -Value $item.LocalizedDisplayName
    $object | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name ArticleID -Value $item1.ArticleID
    $object | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name BulletinID -Value $item1.BulletinID
    $object | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Title -Value $item1.LocalizedDisplayName
    $info += $object
    }
}


$Title = "Total assigned software updates in " + $item.LocalizedDisplayName + " = " + $info.count
$info | Out-GridView -Title "$Title"
}


# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*
# Get the list of software updates in the selected update group
Get-UpdateGroupcontent

.Synopsis

Lists assigned software updates in a configuration manager 2012 software update group

.DESCRIPTION

Lists all assigned software updates in a configuration manager 2012 software update group that is selected

from the list of available update groups or provided as a command line option

.EXAMPLE

Get-UpdateGroupcontent.ps1

.EXAMPLE

Get-UpdateGroupcontent.ps1 -UpdateGroup "Win7x64_12_11_15"

[CmdletBinding()]

param(

# Software Update Group

[Parameter(Mandatory = $false, ValueFromPipeline=$true)]

[String] $UpdateGroup

)

$SiteCode = "POC"

Function Get-UpdateGroupcontent

{

# Check that youre not running X64

if ([Environment]::Is64BitProcess -eq $True)

{ Throw "Need to run at a X86 PowershellPrompt"

}

# Load ConfigMgr module if it isn't loaded already

if (-not(Get-Module -name ConfigurationManager)) {

Import-Module ($Env:SMS_ADMIN_UI_PATH.Substring(0,$Env:SMS_ADMIN_UI_PATH.Length-5) + '\ConfigurationManager.psd1')

}

# Change to site

Push-Location

Set-Location ${SiteCode}:

#Set-CMQueryResultMaximum -Maximum 5000

if ($UpdateGroup.Length -eq 0) {

$UpdateGroup = Get-CMSoftwareUpdateGroup | Select-Object LocalizedDisplayName | Out-GridView -Title "Select the Software Update Group " -PassThru

}

Else

{

$UpdateGroup = Get-CMSoftwareUpdateGroup | Where-Object {$_.LocalizedDisplayName -like "$($UpdateGroup)"} | Select-Object LocalizedDisplayName

}

$info = @()

ForEach ($item in $UpdateGroup)

{

Write-host "Processing Software Update Group" $($item.LocalizedDisplayName)

forEach ($item1 in (Get-CMSoftwareUpdate -UpdateGroupName $($item.LocalizedDisplayName)))

{

$object = New-Object -TypeName PSObject

#$object | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name UpdateGroup -Value $item.LocalizedDisplayName

$object | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name ArticleID -Value $item1.ArticleID

$object | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name BulletinID -Value $item1.BulletinID

$object | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Title -Value $item1.LocalizedDisplayName

$info += $object

}

$Title = "Total assigned software updates in " + $item.LocalizedDisplayName + " = " + $info.count

$info | Out-GridView -Title "$Title"

}

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*

# Get the list of software updates in the selected update group

Get-UpdateGroupcontent

ConfigMgr 2012 – Troubleshooting a Software Update Package

Posted on19 August 201319 August 20134 Comments

Last week I had an issue with a Software Update package in Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 that wouldn’t update properly after i had changed it’s source location. Below a step by step description of what i did to resolve it. Read More …

ConfigMgr 2012 local GPO settings

Posted on14 August 2013Leave a comment

When configuring ConfigMgr 2012 client settings, notice that some of these settings result in Local Group Policy Settings being applied to the client. If you’re sure that you have not configured any other local GPOs, then a simple way to Read More …

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