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...
ClientFaux - the fastest way to fill ConfigMgr with Clients


Hard to test cases in Pester


Faster Web Cmdlet Design with Chrome 65

If you've been following my blog for a while, you know that I LOVE making PowerShell cmdlets, especially ones that consume an API or scrape a web site. However when it comes to tools that peruse the web, this can get a bit tricky, especially if a site doesn't publish an API because then you're stuck parsing HTML or loading and manipulating an invisible `Internet Explorer -COMObject` __barfs in Japanese_._Â And even this terrible approach is closed to us if the site uses AJAX or dynamically loads content. Continue Reading...
Making an Azure Function Reddit Bot

Around the time I was celebrating my 100th post, I made a big to-do about opening my own subreddit at /r/FoxDeploy. I had great intentions, I would help people in an easier to read format than here in the comments...but then, I just kind of, you know, forgot to check the sub for four months. But no longer! I decided to solve this problem with the only tool I know...code. Continue Reading...






