Christopher Kibble's Technical Ramblings
  • Using Flash Beyond the End of Life Date

    2020-12-21 Flash Chrome Google Edge

    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 …

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  • Script to Find Attached USB Mass Storage Devices

    2020-08-20 PowerShell

    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 …

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  • Convert Office 365 Version Numbers to Build Numbers for SCCM Reporting

    2018-07-24 SQL MSOffice PowerShell

    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 …

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  • Allowing Reboot without Shutdown on Windows 10

    2018-07-09 Windows 10

    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 …

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  • Adding Individual Office 365 Product to Existing Installation

    2018-05-23 MSOffice

    I was having a discussion last week about how if you want to add a new product to an existing Office 365 ProPlus installation (such as adding Microsoft Access after already laying down Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), you need to supply an XML with the apps you want to exclude (no longer including Access) but you don't …

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  • Using WinDirStat to Cleanup Disk Space

    2015-07-01 WinDirStat

    WinDirStat, by the company of either the same name or of no name, is in my opinion one of the best tools for quickly understanding where all the space on your hard disk has gone. After scanning your disk, it graphically reports back to you a Windows Explorer like view of your directory structure sorted by space …

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  • Creating an SCCM Collection from an List of Computers in Excel

    2015-06-03 ConfigMgr Excel

    I frequently use this trick to manage collections of computers in SCCM where the original list comes from Excel, or from a query of another system that I can dump into Excel. Doing it this way, you don't have to rely on adding computers one at a time to a collection query or dumping systems into tools like the the …

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  • Microsoft Volume Activation Management Tool 3.0 (VAMT 3.0) Shared Setup - Step by Step

    2014-04-17 VAMT Windows 10

    The Microsoft Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT) is an administrative console meant to make it easier for IT Staff to remotely manage the Microsoft licenses on devices on the network. It can deploy and activate keys for products like Windows (both desktop & server platforms) and Microsoft Office. While the …

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Chris Kibble

Technologist, PowerShell, Desktop Engineering, SQL.

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