Enterprise Systems Management – the good, bad, and ugly
June 12, 2014 1 Comment
Lots of great presentations next week from my MVP colleagues.
Register: We Speak Geek
I’ll be presenting on Powershell and ConfigMgr. What scenarios would you like to see? Leave a comment on this post!
Greg
Greg Ramsey is a Distinguished Engineer for Dell Digital - Services. He has a B.S. in Computer Sciences and Engineering from The Ohio State University and has co-authored many books over the years. Greg is also a board member of the Northwest System Center User Group and the Midwest Management Summit. Greg has been a Microsoft Endpoint Manager (ConfigMgr, Intune) MVP for over 14 years.
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Greg,
You mentioned during the “we speak geek” presentation that you still had to play with the XML portion of the application to figure out other things. I noticed you were using [xml] to convert it to something you could work with. I found this one online and will probably save you the trouble:
[Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.ApplicationManagement.Serialization.SccmSerializer]::DeserializeFromString($_.SDMPackageXML,$True) where $_ is one application. Meaning you could do:
$CMApps = Get-CMApplication | %{ [Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.ApplicationManagement.Serialization.SccmSerializer]::DeserializeFromString($_.SDMPackageXML,$True) }
Then checking if the apps is task sequence enabled is as easy as $CMApps | AutoInstall -eq $false | Select-Object Title
or checking the deployment type requisites $CMApps[20].DeploymentTypes.Requirements.Name -Like “Windows Servers*” …etc.
Hope that helps,
Marlon