PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit v3.6.9

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What is the PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit?

The PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit provides a set of functions to perform common application deployment tasks and to interact with the user during a deployment. It simplifies the complex scripting challenges of deploying applications in the enterprise, provides a consistent deployment experience and improves installation success rates.

 

The PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit can be used to replace your WiseScript, VBScript and Batch wrapper scripts with one versatile, re-usable and extensible tool.

 

What are the main features of the PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit?

 

• Easy To Use - Any PowerShell beginner can use the template and the functions provided with the Toolkit to perform application deployments.
   
   
  
• Consistent - Provides a consistent look and feel for all application deployments, regardless of complexity.
   
   
  
• Powerful - Provides a set of functions to perform common deployment tasks, such as installing or uninstalling multiple applications, prompting users to close apps, setting registry keys, copying files, etc.
   
   
  
• User Interface - Provides user interaction through customizable user interface dialogs boxes, progress dialogs and balloon tip notifications.
   
   
  
• Localized - The UI is localized in several languages and more can easily be added using the XML configuration file.
   
   
  
• Integration - Integrates well with SCCM 2007/2012; provides installation and uninstallation deployment types with options on how to handle exit codes, such as supressing reboots or returning a fast retry code.
   
   
  
• Updatable - The logic engine and functions are separated from per-application scripts, so that you can update the toolkit when a new version is released and maintain backwards compatibility with your deployment scripts.
   
   
  
• Extensible - The Toolkit can be easily extended to add custom scripts and functions.
   
   
  
• Helpful - The Toolkit provides detailed logging of all actions performed and even includes a graphical console to browse the help documentation for the Toolkit functions.
  

 

Version 3.6.9 [12/02/2017]

 

• Added SecureParameters parameter to additional section of Execute-ProcessAsUser
  
• Added SecureParameters parameter to Execute-ProcessAsUser
  
• Added -RegEx parameter to Get-InstalledApplication and modified the help text for the -Name parameter
  
• Added DoNotExpandEnvironmentNames parameter to Get-RegistryKey to enable retrieving of unexpanded REG_EXPAND_SZ values
  
• Added expandstring functionality to the MSI_InstallParams, MSI_SilentParams, and MSI_UninstallParams XML properties
  
• Added support for Windows 10 to the function Set-PinnedApplication to enable pinning and unpinning to the Start Menu
  
• Added IncludeUpdatesAndHotfixes Parameter to Execute-MSI and Remove-MSI functions
  
• BREAKING CHANGE, Changed variable envCommonPrograms to envCommonStartMenuPrograms
  
• Changed behavior of Remove-Folder function to continue deleting files recursively when an error is encountered when $ContinueOnError is used
  
• Changed severity of failure messages created in the Set-PinnedApplication to warning (2) from error (3)
  
• Changed .ps1 script files so that they are UTF-8 BOM encoded so that you can digitally sign files on non-unicode language systems
  
• Fixed issue in Exit-Script where the system tray icon was not being removed at the end of the script
  
• Fixed issue in Remove-MSIApplication which caused the function to fail in the case of multiple filtered or excluded applications
  
• Fixed issue in Get-PendingReboot where detection of a pending SCCM reboot would cause a fatal error for some clients
  
• Fixed issue in Test-MSUpdates giving preference to the Get-Hotfix cmdlet for detecting updates
  
• Fixed issue where variable envOSVersion was inconsistent in Windows 8 and 8.1 workstations
  
• Fixed issue in Execute-ProcessAsUser with Powershell script execution
  
• Fixed issue in Test-MSUpdate which returned a false positive when searching for an installed update
  
• Fixed typo in Get-HardwarePlatform function
  
• Fixed issue in Set-RegistryKey where registry keys with forward slashes were treated like backslashes and broken up into subkeys
  
• Fixed issue in Remove-RegistryKey function where it failed to delete the (Default) value when specified due to limitation of Remove-ChildItem cmdlet
  
• Fixed issue in New-Shortcut to use Rename-Item parameter name that is compatible with PS 2.0
  
• Fixed issue in Get-RegistryKey function which caused it to ignore the (Default) value