This PowerPack allows you to connect to your SMS server and load the data from here to PowerGUI console. You can see current feature tree on the following picture.
Basic features are listing of Collections, Resources, Packages, Advertisements, Reports and Sites. In Admin info are collected some useful functions. In Version2 (current version) a I added possibility of PAckage replication to selected DP and also added 20 WMI classes based on MOF file.
Within this PowerPack you can use some predefined actions. For example:
* List members of collection
* See package properties
* See programs inside the package
* See distribution points where the package is replicated
* Refresh package on distribution points
* See advertisements assigned to colection
* See your site structure in dynamic nodes (as tree)
* Reports listed by specific categories
* Go to some predefined web pages (e.g. myITforum.com)
* See overall health of your site
* Replicate packages (loaded from CSV file) to selected DP
For example, site structure can looks like this:
You can check folowing parts of selected computers:
More detailed documentation in PDF is part of this PowerPack and you can find it in Downloads section.
Note: There is still a lot of work on this PowerPack. Some of them are listed in following TODO list. I'll be very glad if you comment this PowerPack and give me another inputs to make it useful for SMS admins population. Test this PowerPack before you will use it in production. It contains features making changes in SMS database. I tested all features in lab before I moved this PowerPack to production and I really advise you to do the same.
TODO
* (1) Enable adding resources to collection via bulk import
* (1) Allow creating of collections
* (2) Advertisement creation
* (3) Check compatibility with SCCM
Changes
2009-11-05: First public version released (1.0.1.11)
2009-11-15: Version two released (1.2.0.17) - to see added features please check attached PDF file.
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