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About the AdminStudio PowerShell Cmdlets

AdminStudio 2025 | 29.0 | AdminStudio PowerShell Cmdlets

Powershell cmdlets are enabled with AdminStudio Enterprise Edition and with Workflow Manager.

Some of the core tasks that the AdminStudio PowerShell Cmdlets enables you to automate include:

  • Application Catalogs—Creating a new Application Catalog or upgrading an existing Application Catalog.

  • Importing—Importing existing packages into the AdminStudio Application Catalog.

    • Supports importing all the formats that are currently supported by Application Catalog.
    • Supports applying transforms and patches to Windows Installer packages during import.
    • Supports importing individual packages or a directory of packages.
    • Supports importing applications from System Center 2012 Configuration Manager.
  • Application virtualization compatibility—Checking to see if your packages for suitable for conversion to virtual formats.

  • Application model properties—Can set the application model properties of an application.

  • Virtualization—Converting your packages to Microsoft App-V, Citrix XenApp, VMware ThinApp.

    • Allows you to do the conversion one package at a time, or a bulk folder conversion.
  • Testing—Testing your packages by running operating system compatibility, best practice validation, and conflict analysis tests on the packages, and viewing test results.

  • Publishing—Publishing your applications to Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager.

PowerShell support follows the standard Microsoft PowerShell conventions, including well-documented cmdlets within PowerShell.