ClientFaux 2.0 - Completely re-written, faster than ever
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
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...
Quickie - Join video files with PowerShell and FFMPEG
While I'm working on some longer posts, I thought I'd share a quick snippet I came up with this weekend as I was backing up a number of old DVDs of family movies. FFMPeg has the awesome ability to join a number of video files together for you, but the syntax can be kind of strange. Once I learned the syntax, I sought to make sure I never had to do it again, and created this cmdlet. Continue Reading...
Excursion: Model View Controller Programming - Part I
Faster: ConfigMgr Collection Manipulation Speed Test
Recently at work, we had a task come up which saw us needing to move tens of thousands of devices between collections in CM. We decided to run some tests to find the fastest way! We compared a lot of options, from using old CM cmdlets to new preview cmdlet versions and even making our own direct WMI Manipulation cmdlets. Finally, we tried just directly inserting them into collections via direct Collection manipulation in SQL which is totally unsupported. Which method one the day? Resad to find out! Continue Reading...
