Get-CMCollection

Get-CMCollection
    [-CollectionType <CollectionType>]
    [-Name <String>]
    [-DisableWildcardHandling]
    [-ForceWildcardHandling]
    [<CommonParameters>]

Get-CMCollection
    -DistributionPointGroup <IResultObject>
    [-CollectionType <CollectionType>]
    [-DisableWildcardHandling]
    [-ForceWildcardHandling]
    [<CommonParameters>]

Get-CMCollection
    -DistributionPointGroupId <String>
    [-CollectionType <CollectionType>]
    [-DisableWildcardHandling]
    [-ForceWildcardHandling]
    [<CommonParameters>]

Get-CMCollection
    -DistributionPointGroupName <String>
    [-CollectionType <CollectionType>]
    [-DisableWildcardHandling]
    [-ForceWildcardHandling]
    [<CommonParameters>]

Get-CMCollection
    -Id <String>
    [-CollectionType <CollectionType>]
    [-DisableWildcardHandling]
    [-ForceWildcardHandling]
    [<CommonParameters>]

Use this cmdlet to get a device or user collection object.

Collections help you organize resources into manageable units. You can create collections to match your client management needs, and to perform operations on multiple resources at one time. Most management tasks rely on or require using one or more collections.

To scope the type of collection that you get, use the Get-CMDeviceCollection or Get-CMUserCollection cmdlets.

If you don't specify a collection by name, ID or object, this cmdlet returns all collections.

For more information, see Introduction to collections in Configuration Manager.

This command gets the collection named testUser.

Get-CMCollection -Name "testUser"

This command gets the distribution point group object named dpg1 and uses the pipeline operator to pass the object to Get-CMCollection, which gets the collections associated with the distribution point group.

Get-CMDistributionPointGroup -Name "dpg1" | Get-CMCollection

When you distribute content to these collections, the site automatically distributes to all current members of this distribution point group. For more information, see Manage distribution point groups.

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutBuffer, -OutVariable, -PipelineVariable, -ProgressAction, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters.

For more information on this return object and its properties, see SMS_Collection server WMI class.