ConfigMgr Tech Preview Install Guide

October 25, 2019 FoxDeploy

After seeing Adam Gross' very interesting content on his 'CM TechPreview's new AdminService Guide', I immediately started to wonder how I could go about using it in place of remote WMI Operations. One problem? I abandoned my CM install and now things were looking...pretty bleak. This guide will run you through a quick end-to-end deploy of CM Tech previews! Continue Reading...

Progressive Automation: Part I

September 10, 2019 FoxDeploy

In this series, I thought it'd be fun to walk through the common phases of an automation initiative and specifically show how I love to handle this sort of situation when it arises today. We'll walk through recognizing a good opportunity to move a manual task to automation covering these three main steps, over the next few posts here Continue Reading...

PowerShell - Testing endpoints that perform Anti-forgery verification

May 29, 2019 FoxDeploy

Recently at work, we had a long list of web pages which we had to test by hand to be sure they responded after a deployment. This was the big no bueno, because no one wants to spend that kind of time! Continue Reading...

ClientFaux 2.0 - Completely re-written, faster than ever

May 08, 2019 FoxDeploy

As mentioned on the stage at MMSMOA 2018, ClientFaux 2.0 is now available.  Completely re-written with as a WPF GUI with automated certificate generation, multi-threading, and all the bells and whistles. Oh, and Hardware inventory now works! Continue Reading...

Quickie: ConvertTo-PSCustomObject

March 14, 2019 FoxDeploy

Do you ever need to quickly hop between PowerShell tabs in VScode, or have data you want to move from one session to another? Sure, you _could_ output your data into a .CSV file, a .JSon file, or one of hundreds of other options.  But sometimes it's nice to just paste right into a new window and get up and running again.  Continue Reading...

Life after Write-Debug

February 07, 2019 FoxDeploy

Hey y'all.  I need to come clean. I am a bad debugger. Why?  Because until recently, I was notorious for leaving Write-Debug statements everywhere.  I mean, just take a look at my local git folder. Continue Reading...

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