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 …

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'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, …

It really didn't matter how much notice that Adobe gave organizations, there were always going to be applications that were going to live beyond the end of life. It's one of those truisms that you learn when you've been in IT long enough. In this post, I'm going to share what your experience is going to be like with …

I wrote the following script to find and list attached USB Mass Storage Devices and determine the disks and partitions associated with them. 1$usbKeysAttached = Get-PnpDevice -Class USB -Status OK -FriendlyName "USB Mass Storage Device" 2 3$aAttachedDisks = @() 4 5ForEach($key in $usbKeysAttached) { 6 …

I've written the following three PowerShell functions to build a mapping of Office 365 ProPlus version numbers (e.g. 16.0.10205.2009) to more reportable build numbers (e.g. 1806). I've created the following three functions to start: Get-Office365BuildToVersionMap Get-OfficeBuildListToCase …

How it is possible in mid-2018, with 2.6 million results in google when searching, that we don't have a policy where we can prevent shutting down a system but allow rebooting? There are dozens of workarounds, some of which I'll go over below, but no actual ability to set this policy. My Problem: First, there are two …