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While writing this package for the BIOS updates on our systems to negate the Spectre and Meltdown, we decided we wanted all laptop systems...
Mick Pletcher
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Over the past three years, I have not had a need to use the Microsoft PowerShell Gallery on the Windows 7 machines. While working on the Sp...
Mick Pletcher
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While writing the solution for a secure and safe deployment of BIOS updates, I had to come up with a one-liner to backup the Bitlocker reco...
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I needed to install .Net Framework 4.7 on all systems. We no longer manage windows updates via SCCM, so we needed to deploy it as an appl...
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I have been coming to the Microsoft Ignite convention since it's inception in 2015. The first conference held in Chicago had a lot of f...
This weekend, I listened to Security Now's KRACKing WiFi podcast Episode 633 where they discussed the TPM vulnerability. Finding out ...
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With the advent of mass deployment errors such Emory University and CommBank , there needs to be a master kill switch. I also read severa...
Mick Pletcher
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Recently, I built and published the Dell driver update script that may or may not require a reboot. I instituted the script as a task seque...
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Recently, we had to add a new trusted site to the trusted sites GPO. As you may know, if the GPO contains a lot of trusted sites, it can b...
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I purchased the SpaceMonkey back when it first came out. It has been a so-so NAS device that also backed up to the cloud. Vivint bought the...
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This script will initiate a hardware inventory. It scans the InventoryAgent.log file for the initiation of the hardware inventory and then...
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Recently, I wanted to clean up SCCM of a bunch of systems that still reside in active directory, but are also disabled. The first thing I ...
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Recently, we ran into a problem when we discovered some of the newer laptops were not automatically disabling the WiFi when connected to ...
Mick Pletcher
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A while back, I posted a PowerShell script that verified if the TPM was ready for BitLocker to be applied in a build. Recently, the script...
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Recently, I published a new script that updates all of the Dell drivers on a system automatically. I wanted the script to execute twice in ...
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Recently, I implemented Kent Agerlund's technique for monitoring pending reboots located here . This works great, but I also found o...
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Recently, the Install Dell Command Update and Flash BIOS in WinPE solution I published stopped working when we purchased the Dell E7280....