As you already know, then currently we can only start PowerShell Console through Configuration Manager Admin Console but most likely  you may want to start PowerShell ISE through Admin Console :) Step-by-step guide First, this is not supported so don’t blame me if something is not working. Please also remember that there is no SAVE button in Admin Console Builder Tool! Close ConfigMgr Admin Console Start AdminUI.ConsoleBuilder.exe – You can find this tool under the Admin Console installation folder   Select File –> Open –> ConnectedConsole Select View->Application Menu Items Select Connect via Windows PowerShell and right-click select Clone Now [...]

Microsoft just released a new CU for Configuration Manager and with latest CU we got 35 PowerShell cmdlets. Now we have 597 PowerShell cmdlets. Here are the new ones: Add-CMDeploymentTypeDependency Add-CMDeploymentTypeSupersedence ConvertFrom-CMApplication ConvertFrom-CMConfigurationItem ConvertTo-CMApplication ConvertTo-CMConfigurationItem Get-CMCertificate Get-CMClientOperation Get-CMDeploymentTypeDependency Get-CMDeploymentTypeDependencyGroup Get-CMDeploymentTypeSupersedence Get-CMMigrationSource Get-CMObjectSecurityScope Get-CMQuery Get-CMSiteRole Invoke-CMGroupDiscovery Invoke-CMQuery Invoke-CMSystemDiscovery Invoke-CMUserDiscovery New-CMADGroupDiscoveryScope New-CMDeploymentTypeDependencyGroup New-CMEmbeddedObjectInstance New-CMEmbeddedProperty New-CMEmbeddedPropertyList New-CMQuery Remove-CMCollection Remove-CMDeploymentTypeDependency Remove-CMDeploymentTypeDependencyGroup Remove-CMDeploymentTypeSupersedence Remove-CMQuery Set-CMDeploymentTypeDependency Set-CMDeploymentTypeDependencyGroup Set-CMDeploymentTypeSupersedence Set-CMQuery Sync-CMMigrationSource   Happy Scripting! :)

Starting from ConfigMgr 2012 R2 we can use New-Item PowerShell cmdlet to create ConfigMgr Admin Console folders. Here is one simple and quick PowerShell script that allows you to create folders and Collections and finally it moves the Collection to correct folder. #Step 1 Import-Module $env:SMS_ADMIN_UI_PATH.Replace("\bin\i386","\bin\configurationmanager.psd1") $SiteCode = Get-PSDrive -PSProvider CMSITE Set-Location "$($SiteCode.Name):\" #Step 2 New-Item -Name 'OSD' -Path 'PS1:\DeviceCollection' New-Item -Name 'Mobile Device Management' -Path 'PS1:\DeviceCollection' New-Item -Name 'Power Management' -Path 'PS1:\DeviceCollection' New-Item -Name 'ViaMonstra' -Path 'PS1:\DeviceCollection' New-Item -Name 'Software Updates' -Path 'PS1:\DeviceCollection' New-Item -Name 'Compliance' -Path 'PS1:\DeviceCollection' #Step 3 New-CMDeviceCollection -Name 'Test 1' -LimitingCollectionName 'All Systems' New-CMDeviceCollection -Name [...]