Introduction Recently, I was working with Desired Configuration Management (DCM) in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM / ConfigMgr) 2007 SP2 R3. During the development of configuration items (CIs) and baselines, it’s common to have to trigger baseline evaluations to ensure that the validation rules you’re writing are correct.
Introduction Quest’s PowerGUI Integrated Development Environment (IDE) offers the ability to insert code snippets, similar to Microsoft Visual Studio. This saves a lot of typing, and gives you the general framework for whichever PowerShell construct you’re trying to us, for which you only need to fill in the specifics. These …
What are Lazy Properties? So if you’re a script writer, and you also use System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr), you may have run into a concept called Lazy Properties. Lazy properties are certain (not all) properties on certain (not all) WMI classes, within the ConfigMgr provider namespace, that are …
