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 …

In this final page of the series, I'll list out some other resources that might be helpful now that you have a working Certificate Authority.

I've been getting the following error when trying to access a new Excel COM object: Unable to cast COM object of type 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.ApplicationClass' to interface type 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel._Application'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the …

I'm fortunate enough to have a single 44" ultrawide screen as my daily monitor when I'm docked. Unfortunately this means that when I'm presenting a slide deck, I lose access to other applications since I'm using a single monitor and it's taking up all of it.