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PowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 2

In the previous part of this blog series (PowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 1) we introduced The Patch Solution. Simple, elegant, but yet empowering! In this post, I want to talk about some of the issues I’ve seen and heard about around patching. After you understand this, you’ll have a deeper understanding of The Patch Solution.

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PowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 1

Over the last few years, we here at TriCon Elite have been using what we call “The Patch Solution”. Boring name, but it also fits its purpose. Who loves deploying patches and reporting? There are many ways to patch your Windows Servers, but our slim, simple, PowerShell solution was created to solve a few key areas, for free. It has been released to the community for quite some time, but keep reading on why you should use it too!

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PowerShell – Add a Direct Member to a SCCM Collection

One of these tasks was to add a computer directly to a SCCM collection. According to their requirements, they had to use direct membership and could not do a WMI call. So I created the following script and added it to their task sequence.

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PowerShell –Managing the Datadog Cloud Service

PowerShell to the rescue again! Datadog is a Cloud service for aggregating real-time metrics, events and logs from all your servers. The easiest way is to install an agent and let it report via HTTPS directly to the internet or via a web proxy. Another cloud aggregation solution that I’m more familiar with is Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS). Both of these services provide access via PowerShell.

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