PowerShell

PowerShell is here to stay. A phrase often heard recently is learn PowerShell or learn golf. Like it or not we cannot get away from the emphasis on this homemade product from Microsoft. This is evident in just about all current products as PowerShell is so deeply embedded. Configuration Manager is no exception to this, and although we cannot quite do everything we can in the console, there are an increasing number of cmdlets becoming available, more than 500 at the time of writing. So the question we may ask is "where does this come into troubleshooting?" Well for the uninitiated in PowerShell maybe it won't be the first tool they turn to but with some experience we can soon find that performing things like WMI queries and typical console tasks can be made quicker and slicker with PowerShell. If we prefer, we can also read log files from PowerShell and make remote changes to machines. PowerShell can be a one-stop shop for our troubleshooting needs if we spend time to pick up the skills.