Hi Everyone, Currently, we have a small yet well-running Configuration Manager environment. I'm trying to come up with ways to expand and advance the functionality of our environment. One of the things I have been doing more reading on is PowerShell and using it with our SCCM environment. So, I have been putting together a justification document listing the benefits of me taking the MS PowerShell for Administrator's training class. I am going to provide that document to my managers and will hopefully succeed! What kind of neat and helpful stuff have you guys been doing with PowerShell? Keep in mind we perform NO scripting in SCCM whatsoever right now. If it could help in the area of reporting, OS and App deployment, I would be able to provide the most convincing argument. Thanks in advance, Sean

Hi Sean, If you are attending MMS later this month then be sure to check this session. More info on MMS can be found on http://www.mms-2010.com/public/sessions.aspx BF31 Configuration Manager and PowerShell - Better Together Friday, April 23 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM, Veronese 2405 Speaker(s): Greg Ramsey, Donnie Taylor Track(s): Server Management Technologies, Systems Management Session Type(s): Breakout Session Products(s): Configuration Manager 2007, Windows PowerShell Are you ready to take your Configuration Manager Admin experience to the next level? Join Donnie and Greg as they dazzle you with PowerShell and ConfigMgr! The PowerShell Community Extensions for ConfigMgr will be explained and used to show you how to easily automate processes that you do every day in the ConfigMgr Admin Console. Modify site settings, Manage Advertisements, Collections, Packages, Programs, and even Software Updates! As an added bonus Donnie and Greg will reveal the next version of the ConfigMgr Client Troubleshooter, updated and written in PowerShell! This will be a deep dive, building functions and modules in Powershell. If you're not a scripter, and not familiar with WMI, do some homework before this sessionKent Agerlund | http://scug.dk/members/Agerlund/default.aspx | The Danish community for System Center products

Darn, as much as I would love to attend that session, I am not able to go to MMS this year. Thanks for pointing that out to me!

Using Powershell with ConfigMgr makes no sense to me, because there are no cmdlets available out of the box. So you have to use standard WMI methods. Additionally there are not many PS examples for ConfigMgr available on the internet and the ConfigMgr SDK contains only vbs, vb.net and/or C# example.