Building a Windows 10 IoT C# traffic monitor: Part I

We're counting down here at FoxDeploy, about to reach a traffic milestone (1 Million hits!) , and because I am pretty excited and like to celebrate moments like this, I had an idea...let's get in WAY over my head and make a Windows IoT Traffic tracker Continue Reading...
The quest for true silent MDM Enrollment

In this post we will dig further into the options available to us to deploy a Provisioning Package with the goal of allowing for silent MDM Enrollment and Silent application of a provisioning package! Continue Reading...
POWERSHELL DECONSTRUCTED

In this post, I'll outline my own such PowerShell adventure, and show you the tools I used to come out the other side with a working solution. We'll meet in basecamp to prepare ourselves with the needed gear, plan our scaling strategy and climb the crags of an unknown PowerShell module. We'll belay into treacherous canyons, using our torch to reveal the DLLs that make Windows work, then chart new ground using DotPeek and eventually arrive on the summit, victorious and armed with new tools. Continue Reading...
Extracting and monitoring web content with PowerShell

This kind of request comes up **all the time** on StackOverflow and /r/PowerShell. > 'How can I extract content from a webpage using PowerShell'. And it's an interesting problem to solve. However, nothing motivates like greed, and I recently revisited this topic in order to help me track down the newest must-have item, the Switch. Continue Reading...
Advanced Autocompletion: adding output types

You know how in PowerShell you can type a cmdlet, then pipe into `Select-Object` or another cmdlet and start tabbing through property names? This is the type of Autocompletion we are going to add to our function in this post! Continue Reading...
Lessons on ProcMon and how to force On-screen keyboard

Recently, I had a customer looking at setting up potentially tens of thousands of Point of Sale Kiosks running Windows 10 on an LTSB branch. We wanted users to have to input their password, but noticed that if a Windows 10 machine is in the docking station, the Touch Keyboard will never display! Paradoxically, if the user has a Windows Hello Pin specified, that version of the touch keyboard will appear. But for a regular password? Nope, no On-Screen Keyboard. And using the dated compatibility keyboard (OSK.exe) was not an option. In this post, we'll use pinvoke to find a way to make it happen. Continue Reading...