A Hammer to Turn Screws
Script: Check-Readiness.ps1 Purpose: Keeps me busy and away from drinking too much coffee. Okay, seriously, it’s just another flavor of “check for Windows 10 upgrade readiness using PowerShell”. It...
View ArticleThis Week in Nerdy Stuff
While I’m still sorting out some personal issues and trying to grasp how it is so many American-English words that begin with “con” or “pro” or “in” don’t have corollary words that make any damned...
View ArticleInstall 17 Apps in 16 minutes without Local Files
So I Tweeted this a few times, but some people DM’d me with questions about how, what, why Chocolatey, rather than NiNite, or some other bundling solution, and so on. Well, Chocolatey is essentially...
View ArticleA Cheap Extensible PowerShell Pipeline for ConfigMgr Queryburgers and a Side...
I’ve been knocked out all day on cold medicine and just woke up. So, to be honest, I have no idea what year it is. In fact, Configuration Manager and SQL Server might be long gone. Microsoft may...
View ArticleAnd now for another stupid pet project
First, there was project number one. I called it “WWA”, which was a clever short name for “Windows Web Admin”. Even though I kept hearing it sounded like a name for a wrestling tournament. Anyhow, it...
View Articlesktools
UPDATE: 1/14/2019 – version 1901.13.2 was posted to address a problem with the previous upload. Apparently, I posted an out-of-date build initially, so I’ll call this the “had another cup of coffee...
View Article100-level 101
By my semi-quasi scientific reasoning, I estimate that this scenario has occurred in my presence approximately 34.75 times in the past 10 years. That number could be completely fictitious, but you have...
View ArticleDeploy PowerShell Modules with ConfigMgr Task Sequences
UPDATE: 10/24/2019 – Fixed a boneheaded part of this to use Save-Module and replaced the module installer script so that it just reads the module source folder name (and version sub-folder) to...
View ArticleA Tiny Web Service for Tiny ConfigMgr Devices
This is just a “proof of concept” used for another project, but I wanted to post it here in case it’s of help to anyone else. What is it? It’s a web service (REST endpoint) built using Universal...
View ArticleThank you, PowerShell!
These are just a few snippets of PowerShell code that helped me out during the past week. There were quite a few others, but these were the easiest examples to show. UPDATE 1 – Swapped-out...
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More Paint Fumes with Automated Device Naming using ConfigMgrWebService and...
Update-3: Added example for using the GetCMFirstAvailableNameSequence() function. Update-2: fixed spelling of Nickolaj. Changed coffee brand. Moved lawn rake. Updated-1 11/6: Corrected a few...
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Brain Dump(ster fire)- POC Azure Automation, MEM/CM, On-Prem SQL, and Email
(I put out a Twitter poll asking if I should post a “nerdy” topic, or a “stupid AF” topic first, and nerdy was in the lead, so grab your caffeine. You’re going to need it) UPDATE 1 – I forgot to...
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5 Things You Should Have Automated by Now
The Long Back-Story (queue the campfire scene, under the stars, with distant harmonica and bearded old man, smoking a pipe of something, and all the little systems engineers, all gathered around to...
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Quick Assist – The Overlooked Remote Assistant
Troubleshooting and assisting remote computer users has always been a challenge. For years, with earlier Windows versions, we had Remote Assistance. But many organizations never gave it much...
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Find Intune Devices with the Jan 2020 Windows 10 CU Patch Installed
I’ve been playing around with a bunch of different code fragments from all over the place, but I think I found a good mix that works. For now at least. Special (huge, gigantic) thanks to Matthew Dowst...
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Export HW/SW Inventory Data from Intune Devices using PowerShell
What is this recent torrent of Intune gibberish coming from this foul-mouthed idiot? Is he some sort of “expert”? Bah! Nope! I’m just working with it a bit more lately, so I figured I’d brain-dump on...
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Rant 42 – Getting In Tune with Intune
Keep in mind that everything I’m about to say is within the context of the following: This is entirely focused on managing Windows desktops and laptops. This has nothing to do whatsoever with mobile...
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Using PowerShell to Find Out If You’re About to get a Beating
The goal of this blog post is to export your Azure subscription billing data into Microsoft Excel, so that you can apply some cool charts and distract your significant other from killing you when you...
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Windows 11 – Part 2. The Electric Boogaloo
I’ve already shared my thoughts on Windows 11, but that was pre-release. This is now. WARNING: May contain language not suitable for intelligent people. What I like about Windows 11 Pretty much the...
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Inventory Queries with PowerShell and WSUS
Getting inventory data from remote computers is always fun and exciting. Most people can’t get enough of it. I’ve been told people will forego silly things like food, water or sex, just to have more...
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