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Recently, I have been working on Configuration Baselines for security purposes. While doing so, two of my baselines required remediation t...
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Recently, we had an issue of some machines not backing up the Bitlocker recovery password to active directory, even with the GPO in pla...
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With the recent 1809, RSAT is now integrated into Windows, which is a major plus for the admin side. In my environment, I have the active d...
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One of the issues we have had is some users ending up being in the administrators group. There are circumstances to which we have to someti...
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Recently, we ran into the issue of users replacing their keyboard and mouse with Bluetooth devices. What happened was they would lose co...
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When our build team builds new machines for users, we provide a convenience to the user of letting them know what their default printer is...
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Here is a PowerShell one-line installer for Mozilla Firefox. This allows you to download the latest version of Mozilla Firefox during the ...
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This application is straightforward to deploy. The PowerShell script below will kill all processes associated with Microsoft Office. Ping r...
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While working on a series of one-liners for configuring the NIC on machines, I created this needed to makes changes to the power managemen...
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In Windows 10 1809, I needed to enable some RSAT features that are now included in the OS. I figured this would be a good time to go from...
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It was time for us to upgrade the Microsoft Orchestrator to the newest 1801 version. We were three versions behind as we have been using 20...
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If you have to track the login times for a specific user, this tool will generate a report for you that scans the event viewer logs for ID...
While planning and configuring the Windows 10 upgrades, we had to also include the transition to UEFI from BIOS. I wanted to make sure that...
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We have started the Windows 10 upgrades and part of this process is installing applications for users that are not included in the standar...
The Windows 10 upgrades required us to move profile contents off of the machines to a file share and then move them back. This was because ...
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While building a new reference image, I always want to make sure every application got installed before the WIM is generated. I have done ...
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If you have the SLShare variable defined in MDT to write logs to the specified UNC path and the SLShareDynamicLogging defined to write to ...
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While in the middle of the planning phase for the Windows 10 rollout, we wanted a report on the size of the My Documents and Desktops of a...
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Dell Command | Configure can be of great use in the WinPE environment. It allows you to configure and/or query the BIOS before an operating...
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Recently, I was reviewing the bitlocker recovery password backups. We still use active directory to store them, and yes, we are planning on...
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While rewriting a PowerShell automation script to move machines in Active Directory, I had been trying to pass the MachineObjectOU task seq...
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It has been four years since I published the last version of the PowerShell script to move systems from one OU to another during a build p...