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  • The Power of PowerShell
    Palumbo, Timothy

    Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGUCCS Annual Conference, 10/2017
    Conference Proceeding

    Lehigh University currently utilizes the Flexera Corporate Software Inspector (CSI, formerly Secunia CSI) application to patch faculty/staff computers on campus. This system patches third-party applications on all currently supported Windows operating systems by leveraging the Windows Server Update Service (WSUS). This presentation is not meant to focus on a particular patch management product or system, but instead it will discuss how such a system can be used to solve unusual problems when coupled with a powerful scripting language such as PowerShell. This presentation will focus on specific scenarios that PowerShell solved when combined with our patch management system. The scenarios it will present include: an update to our internet browser software, Mozilla Firefox, which when updated disabled our ad-blocking extension, an issue of unknown origin which caused all of our Windows 7 systems to no longer activate utilizing our Key Management Service (KMS) (this included Microsoft Office products), a glitch in Windows 7 which caused garbage files to generate non-stop and completely fill end user hard drives, and our rather unusual implementation of Java. PowerShell saved us immeasurable time in resolving these issues across our entire campus. Using PowerShell with our patch management solution allows us to resolve almost any issue, campus-wide, with the push of a button.