SMLets Beta 3 Released!

Today we released a major new release of SMLets – Beta 3!  Download the new release at the CodePlex site.

Jim Truher and I have been hard at work adding a lot of new capabilities, cmdlets, testing harnesses, scripts, cleaning up the code base, and of course – fixing bugs (we found a couple )!

New in this release:

32 NEW cmdlets!

Get-SCSMObjectTemplate
Set-SCSMObjectTemplate (apply template to a projection object)
New-SCSMGroup
Get-SCsMGroup
New-SCSMView
Remove-SCGroup
Get-SCSMQueue
New-SCSMQueue
Remove-SCSMQueue
New-SCSMEnumeration
Get-SCSMView
Get-SCSMFolder
Get-SCSMForm
Get-SCSPage
Get-SCSMPageSet
Get-SCSMViewSetting
Get-SCSMViewType
Get-SCSMImage
Get-SCSMFolderHierarchy
Get-SCSMStringResource
Get-SCSMLanguagePackCulture
Get-SCSMWhoAmI
Get-SCSMConnectedUser
Get-SCSMConsoleTask
New-SCSMUserRole
Get-SCSMUserRole
Get-SCSMView
New-SCSMNotificationSubscription
Remove-SCSMView
New-SCSMManagementPackReference
Get-SCSMManagementPackReference
Remove-SCSMUserRole

Other notable improvements:

• Installable via MSI now
• Added sorting capability to Get-SCSMObject and Get-SCSMObjectProjection.
• Added type converter for EnterpriseManagementObjectProjection. This means that you can pipe the output of get-scsmincident or get-scsmobjectprojection to cmdlets that take an objectprojection and the conversion will happen automatically
• Update Module file to include aliases for those cmdlets that don't have the prolog SCSM. For example, get-scmanagementpack now has an alias of get-scsmmanagementpack
• Update new-scsmmanagementpack to support creating a blank MP
• Update to Set-SCSMObject to handle null -value parameter by adding AllowEmptyString and AllowNull attributes
• Added should process support to all set-, update-, and remove- cmdlets that didnt have it.

Added new helper functions to get MPs and MP elements by ID instead of GUID:
GetManagementPack()
GetManagementPackRelationship()
GetManagementPackClass()
GetManagementPackTypeProjection()

Please note there are a few breaking changes in this release.  Please update any scripts, workflows, etc. that use these cmdlets as appropriate to use the new parameter signatures.  We realize this may be a pain for you (hopefully not!) but it just had to be done for the greater good of all future consumers of smlets to get things cleaned up.

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BREAKING CHANGE
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Breaking Parameter Signature Changes
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The following parameter names were modified to provide consistency in parameter names across all cmdlets:
New-SCSMAnnouncement -Name --> -DisplayName
Set-SCSMAnnouncement -Name --> -DisplayName
Import-SCManagementPack -MP --> -ManagementPack
Remove-SCManagementPack –ManagementPackInstance --> –ManagementPack
Export-SCManagementPack –ManagementPackInstance --> –ManagementPack
Get-SCSMUserRole –UserRole --> -Name
Get-SCSMRunAsAccount –UserRoleName --> -Name
New-SCSMNotificationSubscription –Name --> -DisplayName
Set-SCSMObjectTemplate –TemplateName to -Name

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BREAKING CHANGE
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-Name on New-SCSMObject removed. This could have been used previously for passing in the class name instead of passing a ManagementPackClass to –Class. To encourage stronger typing and because the –Name is ambiguous and not consistent

with the use of –Name in the other cmdlets it has been removed.

So – you will do this:
New-SCSMObject –Class (Get-SCSMClass –Name System.WorkItem.Incident$)
Instead of this
New-SCSMObject –Name System.WorkItem.Incident$

-ClassName on Get-SCSMObject also be removed. –Class already exists there.

So – you will do this:
Get-SCSMObject –Class (Get-SCSMClass –Name System.WorkItem.Incident$)
Instead of this
Get-SCSMObject –ClassName System.WorkItem.Incident$

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BREAKING CHANGE
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Removed -EMG parameter from New-SCManagementPack cmdlet *** BREAKING **** - use the inherited implied _mg instead

 

I’ll put up some blog posts in the next few days showing you some of the really cool new stuff you can do with this version of SMLets.