In my test environment, the WebDAV server is physically far from my IGEL clients. Exporting images from IGEL to WebDAV can take hours, so I wanted a faster way to test the IMH Exporter experience without waiting for long uploads. To test what the IGEL Managed Hypervisor (IMH) Exporter looks like without needing to wait …

In a previous post outlining how to set up IGEL for the first time, I mentioned that if you're using a technology that swaps out the SSL/TLS certificate on your network (the most popular solution being Zscaler), you'll run into problems getting a demo license. This will cause to several other issues down the line - …

Over the past several months, I've been looking at IGEL as a Thin Client solution in some niche spots. There are plenty of guides and communities online, but most assumed you already understood the IGEL ecosystem (I didn't) or had prior experience setting up thin-client environments (I didn't). To further the …

After a recent complete failure of my Windows 11 insider build, I was forced to do a Windows reset. The process promises to preserve all of your files, but should probably be asterisked to note that data stored in WSL won't stick around (although technically is not deleted). Where's my WSL Data? Data stored in WSL v2 …

Lenovo recently announced LEN-75210 where a privileged service can be vulnerable to attack. This service is used on many of their laptop and desktop classes. In this post I'll share a query to identify your systems impacted by LEN-75210 This query has the following rquirements: Your ConfigMgr hardware inventory must be …

When Lenovo announced HT508988 back in late 2019, I found there was no built-in method to get the firmware version on impacted Lenovo models using traditional hardware inventory or WMI. The only solution I found in the forums was to collect the data using the firmware update itself. Through trial and error, I found …

I've had an issue loading meeting recordins from Microsoft Teams into Camtasia recently. The video imports perfectly, but the audio cuts out after about a minute. After a lot of message board posting and troubleshooting of my own, the consensus seems to be that it's something about the bitrate that the audio is saved …

I'm a huge fan of the WizTree Disk Space Analyzer solution, which generates a graphical representation of what's taking up space on your disk. If you haven't used it before, it competes nicely with TreeSize and WinDirStat. WizTree is free for personal use, but requires a license to use in a commercial environment. What …

Information from the Tenable Nessus Agent, as far as I'm aware, is only available when using the Nessus Client command line application (NessusCli.exe). In this post, I'm going to show how we can capture this with PowerShell. I'm going to walk through how I do this step-by-step. If you're looking for just the script, …

Inspired by this post on TechNet and trying to help out someone on the WinAdmins Discord, I took a bit of a dive into the v_Update_ComplianceStatus view and how it compares to v_Update_ComplianceStatusAll. The v_Update_ComplianceStatus & v_UpdateComplianceStatus Views I cover these views together because they are the …