I wrote an article about three years ago on  conditional task sequence reboots . It used the built-in reboot task sequence that was ini...

Over the past two months, I deployed the Windows 10 1809 to all Windows 10 machines. We got through 80% of the machines with successful dep...

Recently, we decided to change the power scheme on machines during the build. This can be quickly done using the powercfg.exe, but I want...

If you have been wanting to wake your Dell systems up from sleep, hibernate, or shutdown states, this is how you do it. Starting out with t...

In my list of recent security projects, I needed to ensure certain applications are present on systems by using SCCM application deploymen...

While working on a new compliance policy, I ran into a lot of hurdles that needed to be resolved. One of those hurdles was executing an SCC...

Recently, I have been working on Configuration Baselines for security purposes. While doing so, two of my baselines required remediation t...

Recently, we had an issue of some machines not backing up the Bitlocker recovery password to active directory, even with the GPO in pla...

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...

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...

Recently, we ran into the issue of users replacing their keyboard and mouse with Bluetooth devices. What happened was they would lose co...

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...

Here is a PowerShell one-line installer for Mozilla Firefox. This allows you to download the latest version of Mozilla Firefox during the ...

This application is straightforward to deploy. The PowerShell script below will kill all processes associated with Microsoft Office. Ping r...

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...

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...

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...

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...