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Recently, Dell released the BIOS updates covering systems starting with the Intel Family 6 Model 42 and later processors. This is the first...
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Ever since the Spectre and Meltdown issues arose, we have been waiting on patching, at least reliable patching. Microsoft has taken it on i...
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While working on the Windows 10 upgrade project, I ran into a situation which I needed the information from an MSU file for the task sequen...
Below is a video on how to add ShareThis to Blogger. It is a very easy process. Apparantly the process has changed since other instuction p...
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This script function will uninstall an MSI installed application by specifying the GUID and the switches. I have included the ability for t...
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Here is a function that will uninstall an MSI installed application by the name of the app. You do not need to input the entire name either...
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As we all know, Mozilla Firefox is not the easiest application to deal with when it comes to deploying it in an enterprise environment. I h...
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You are installing RSAT in a build, and you want to check if it is installed if it is included in the windows updates. Recently, there has...
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As you have probably seen recently in my latest blog entries, I am working on a bunch of PowerShell one-liners to do away with the actual s...
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Recently, I have been revisiting our task sequence for our base build. One of the tasks it does it to set the PowerShell executionpolicy. Y...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...