Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 and R2 PowerShell Provider

Updated 23.03.2015!

As you might have already noticed that Configuration Manager PowerShell Provider is lot like Active Directory, Registry etc. provider. To run a cmdlet you need to be inside CMSITE.

If you are still using SP1+, then:

1. you can´t use New-Item cmdlet to create folders

2. you can´t set the location to sub folders

3. Get-ChildItem does not work at all

If you are using R2+, then

1. You can use New-Item to create folders

2. You can change the location i.e. sub folders etc.

3. Get-ChildItem only prints out folder objects but not collections, applications etc. inside the folder

Here are the different versions of Configuration Manager 2012

If do automation against the Configuration Manager and you are using Configuration Manager PowerShell module cmdlets, then I recommend that you upgrade to latest version with CU´s. Last four Cumulative Updates for R2 release has been really good for Configuration Manager PowerShell module.

Configuration Manager 2012 SP1

New-Item cmdlet

New-Item cmdlet just fails

Set-Location cmdlet

You can´t set the location to sub folders

Configuration Manager 2012 R2

New-Item works

You can create admin console folders

Get-ChildItem works partially

Get-ChildItem only prints out folders but not the folder content

Set-Location

Intellisense in R2 version is much better. You can see the root folders and also sub folders.