How To: Enable the “Suppress Program Notifications” Checkbox for Program Properties

After rebuilding our ConfigMgr 2012 site to RC2, we had to run the Migration Tool to migrate Packages from ConfigMgr 2007. One of the site-wide settings that we took advantage of in ConfigMgr 2007 was to hide the “New Program is Available” systray notification. This works slightly different in ConfigMgr 2012, so we had to enable this checkbox for all programs. We’ll save the details on ConfigMgr systray notifications for a separate post, but for now, here’s a quick PowerShell script to enable the “Suppress program notifications” checkbox for every program in  your ConfigMgr 2012 (or ConfigMgr 2007) environment.

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#Select all programs (Update MySiteServer and LAB with your ConfigMgr Server name and Site code)
$prgs = get-wmiobject sms_program -computername MySiteServer -namespace root\sms\site_LAB
$prgs | foreach {
#ProgramFlags are a lazy property, so make explicit call.
$prg = [wmi] $_.__Path
if ($prg.ProgramFlags -band ([math]::pow(2,10)))
{
# Suppress already enabled
}
else
{
# Not suppressed - display programname and packageID
$prg.Programname + "`t" + $prg.PackageiD
# flip the programflags bit to enable suppression
$prg.ProgramFlags = $prg.ProgramFlags -bor ([math]::pow(2,10))
# use Put to save changes
$prg.put()
}
#rinse and repeat
}

Read more about SMS_Program and ProgramFlags.

Greg