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Microsoft System Center Powershell Essentials

You're reading from  Microsoft System Center Powershell Essentials

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784397142
Pages 140 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Microsoft System Center PowerShell Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Setting up the Environment to Use PowerShell 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

Software distribution


This section provides detailed knowledge of how to get information of software distribution components (including information on packages, programs, applications, and so on) and how to create your own package, program, and applications using PowerShell cmdlets. This section will also cover how to distribute and deploy packages and applications using PowerShell.

Handling packages and applications

PowerShell allows you to get details of one or more packages in Configuration Manager. You can use the package name and package ID as parameters to the cmdlet. If no parameters are specified, the cmdlet will retrieve all the packages available in Configuration Manager:

Get-CMPackage –Name "Adobe Reader"

We can use Get-CMApplication to get the details of all the applications available in the Configuration Manager database. If no parameters are specified, the cmdlet will retrieve all the applications available in the database:

Get-CMApplication

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