ConfigMgr Tech Preview Install Guide
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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...