PowerShell Management Agent 2.0

I'm pleased to annouce that a version 2.0 of my (apparently popular) PowerShell Management Agent is released.

The old version only supported exports, but this new version also supports imports (only Full Imports) giving you the option to do a lot of data source interaction in pure PowerShell. You can read much more about the inner workings of the Management Agent in the documentation included in the downloadable.

You can find the binaries and documentation here.

If you have feature requests or find bugs, please let me know.

The released version is as-is, however, you can contact me for details on support options if this is required for your setup.

Report of pending exports

A customer of mine recently requested a report of pending exports before they wanted to put FIM into actual production.

Now, it's pretty easy to just generate a log. On your Run Profile under Set Log File Options, just select 'Create a log file and stop run. Do not export to data source (test only)' as shown below.

However, the output log file is in XML format. In my opinion, you can't present this to a customer but it's a great format for further processing using Powershell or similar. I chose to create a simple XSLT for formatting the output.

If you have similar needs, grab the XSLT file here (https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=75f650a487e85151&resid=75F650A487E85151!161&parid=75F650A487E85151!150)

This is not the HTML report to rule them all, but it's a start and you can edit and change the HTML as you like.

For simple transition, use an internet browser. Just edit the FIM export file using Notepad and put this line in as the second line ot make a referral in the XML file to the XSLT file. Remember to change the filename in the HREF tag if you have renamed the XSLT file.

<?xml:stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="ExportLog.xslt" ?>

A little note, if you're using IE9, it will not by default render XSLT's, but you can use the F12 Developer Tools i IE9 to switch to IE9 Compatible Mode or maybe even to IE8 mode - and then maybe - as I did for my customer - just print a XPS to give to the customer.