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HomeKit Broke After iOS 17.3? Here’s How I Fixed Meross & Kasa Symptoms: Devices show “No Response,” automations fail, and hubs appear...
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I've been meaning to share this blog post for some time now, and finally got around to it. If you need to trigger a Windows update witho...
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If you have a system that has been infected or the drive had to be replaced, you'll need to lay down a new bare OS and then have autopil...
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I am working on a new package to upgrade one of the applications. This time, it requires I uninstall the old app first before installing th...
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The firm I am at has recently upgraded all systems to the newest model Dells. In doing so, some of the settings for configuring WOL have cha...
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Recently, we started a cleanup of AD. Once the cleanup was completed, I wanted ConfigMgr cleaned up right away too. It is set to clean up ol...
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I was recently writing a new PowerShell tool to clean up Configuration Manager of old systems. When I ran the import-module cmdlet, I got th...
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This PowerShell script not only backs up the Bitlocker recovery password to AD but also cleans out previous backups made that do not match t...
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Over the years, we have manually configured the TPM before imaging a system as part of our build process. Dell has since given the ability t...
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If you have Carbon Black in your environment, you can use it to identify which machines a user account is logged into. Carbon Black collects...
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Recently, we needed a report of the last boot time of all servers. I wrote this PowerShell script that queries AD for a list of all windows ...
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I recently had to rebuild the Configuration Manager server. As I was running the prerequisite tool, it showed it could not communicate with...
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I encountered this error when working with MDT right after deleting two old task sequences. To troubleshoot this, I went to the logs direc...
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If you are still using an on-prem version of office, you know the need to populate the Updates folder so updates get applied when Office is ...
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I wanted to install Winget via PowerShell in an automated process. The first thing I did was to go to the Winget GitHub site and select th...
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This PowerShell tool queries AD for a list of machines in the specified administrative admin groups. The list is specified by modifying the ...
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KB5005652 resolved the "PrintNightMare" vulnerability, but it also brought many companies to a halt when it came to end-users inst...
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Font installation using PowerShell has changed since Windows 10 1909. The old way of doing it with PowerShell no longer works. This new scri...
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I was in the process of pushing out the Microsoft Windows 10 20H2 upgrade when I had 23 systems that errored out. They reported the error sh...
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It is the beginning of 2021 and my first project for the new year is upgrading all systems to Windows 10 20H2. At the end of the upgrades co...