Configuration Manager 2012 with SP 1 Native PowerShell support

I’m no PowerShell ninja. But like most Configuration Manager administrators, the writing is on the wall. With PowerShell now natively supported in SP1, it’s time to become comfortable with it.

On the Configuration Manager Team’s blog they are just kicking off a weekly post on PowerShell integration in Configuration Manager. If you are a seasoned PowerShell guru, you will probably not be interested in their first post – it assumes you have no experience with PowerShell and covers the very basics. But I think this could be a blog to watch in the coming weeks if you want to get more in-depth knowledge of PS and CM integration. You’ll find the blog at http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2013/03/13/powershell-basics.aspx.

Why would you want to use PowerShell in ConfigMgr? Well, I came across an excellent post from Peter Daalmans a couple of weeks ago which included a short little script that will delete objects from Configuration Manager when they are deleted in Active Directory. Clean up your ConfigMgr database without having to wait for objects to age out. Brilliant example of the power of PowerShell cmdlets!