We’ve amassed a very large number of task sequences since migrating to Configuration Manager 2012 and it got me thinking about ways to archive off older sequences so that we can clean house. So I came up with this script.
The script will first collect all of the task sequences in your site. Next it will enumerate through them, write the sequence to an XML named after the task sequence ID and finally create a CSV index of the TSID, task sequence name, the last modified date of the sequence and when the sequence was backed up.
Import-Module (Join-Path $(Split-Path $env:SMS_ADMIN_UI_PATH) ConfigurationManager.psd1)
$SiteCode = "CM1"
$BackupFolder = 'D:\TS_Backups'
$IndexFile = "$BackupFolder\_Index.csv"
$Date = Get-Date -Format yyyy-MM-dd
$StringDate = $Date.ToString()
Set-Location $SiteCode`:\
IF (!(Test-Path $IndexFile))
{
#Prep the Index
Add-Content -Value "TSID,Name,Last Modified Date,Backup Date" -Path $IndexFile
}
Write-Host "=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=" -ForegroundColor White -BackgroundColor Black
Write-Host "Pulling all of the Task Sequences..." -ForegroundColor Cyan
$TSList = Get-CMTaskSequence
Write-Host "Done!" -ForegroundColor Green
Write-Host " "
Write-Host "$($TSList.Count) sequences" -ForegroundColor Cyan
Write-Host "Exporting task sequences to XML..." -ForegroundColor DarkCyan
FOREACH ($TS in $TSList)
{
Set-Content -Path “$BackupFolder\$($TS.PackageId).xml” -Value $TS.Sequence
$LastModDate = Get-date($TS.LastRefreshTime) -Format yyyy-MM-dd
Add-Content -Value "$($TS.PackageId),$($TS.Name),$LastModDate,$StringDate" -Path $IndexFile
}
Write-Host "Done!" -ForegroundColor Green
Write-Host "=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=" -ForegroundColor White -BackgroundColor BlackTo modify the script to work in your site you just need to modify line 3 for your site code and line 4 for your backup location.
Import-Module (Join-Path $(Split-Path $env:SMS_ADMIN_UI_PATH) ConfigurationManager.psd1)
$SiteCode = "CM1"
$BackupFolder = 'D:\TS_Backups'
$IndexFile = "$BackupFolder\_Index.csv"Sample CSV Index:
TSID,Name,Last Modified Date,Backup Date CM10000D,Nomad Build Server - Build v 2.0,2014-08-27,2015-06-03 CM10000F,Nomad Build Server - PreCache v 2.1,2015-05-29,2015-06-03 CM10001E,DEV2012 - Windows 7 Migration PreFlight v 2.0,2014-07-10,2015-06-03 CM100020,DevCoreImage Utilities 2.0,2014-09-02,2015-06-03 CM100021,RETIRED-Nomad Build Server - Cache Monitor v 2.0_1,2015-03-30,2015-06-03
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