Mick Pletcher
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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...
Mick Pletcher
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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 ...
Mick Pletcher
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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...
Mick Pletcher
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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 ...
Mick Pletcher
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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...
Mick Pletcher
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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 ...
Mick Pletcher
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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...
Mick Pletcher
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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...
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One of my recent projects is to convert our remaining legacy systems from BIOS to UEFI. While setting up the task sequence, I needed to be a...
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As part of the suite of security tools I am writing, this will query the configuration manager SQL database for a list of machines that are ...
Mick Pletcher
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In the imaging process I devised, most of the Windows 10 Built-In apps, such as mail and maps, are removed. My company uses the SAC edition ...
Mick Pletcher
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Normally, windows updates are pushed to machines using Configuration Manager in an enterprise environment. There are occasions though when t...
Mick Pletcher
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This tool queries specified AD groups for new users that have been added to the group within a specified number of days. The script is writt...
Mick Pletcher
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This tool is designed to report if a user profile has been logged into a defined number of machines or greater over a specified period of ti...
Mick Pletcher
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If you use PowerShell with Configuration Manager, you likely know that there are two PowerShell modules named ConfigurationManager.psd1. One...
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We use VMWare for our servers and sometimes virtualized desktops. One of the issues we ran into was expanding the disk space on a virtual ma...
Mick Pletcher
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This script will clean up the legacy items left over after a distribution point has been deleted in the configuration manager console. This ...
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This script will connect to the Zerto server and retrieve a list of systems that Zerto is not backing up. The script has been written so t...
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During the COVID19 pandemic, one of my projects has been to build a new configuration manager server at our newer production site for opti...
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We have a new datacenter and the configuration manager server needed to be moved to that location. The setup of Configuration Manager is ...
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We wanted a list of servers that are waiting for a reboot. Thankfully, ConfigMgr has a pending restart field that allows admins to see whe...
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While building my new Configuration Manager server, MECM, I took screenshots of the default antimalware policy settings in the event settin...