Christopher Kibble's Technical Ramblings
  • Standing Up a Microsoft Certificate Authority - Part 2

    2020-11-26 CA PKI

    In this post, we'll stand up a subordinate Certificate Authority server.  This will be your domain joined, always online server that will actually hand out the certificates to clients.

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  • Standing up a Microsoft Certificate Authority - Part 1

    2020-11-23 CA PKI

    Let's start with a basic understanding of Certificate Authorities.  You can skip this part if you're not interested, but personally I find it easier to wrap my head around things when I understand them better.  The biggest concept to understand with a CA environment is chains of trust.  Essentially, you trust the …

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  • Error "The specified server cannot perform the requested operation" when using Export-CMApplication

    2020-09-08 ConfigMgr

    Quick post today because I couldn't find this error anywhere online. I'm running Configuration Manager 2002 and was exporting an application and was getting this error thrown in Powershell: Export-CMApplication : The specified server cannot perform the requested operation. After some digging around, I realized it was …

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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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  • Recovering Data from Synology Mirror on New NAS

    2020-06-30 Synology NAS

    So, my DS218+ recently died and I picked up a new DS918+. After setting it up with two new 4TB disks, I thought I was going to be able to put my two old 2 TB disks that were setup as a mirror in my old system and just copy the data over, but unfortunately that's not an option. The solution in the community seemed to be …

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  • Quickly Editing a Microsoft Doc (Video)

    2019-11-13 GitHub MSDocs

    The following 60-second video is the one I demoed at MMS Jazz 2019 to show how to quickly edit a Microsoft Doc without needing to understand Git command line tools or using VSCode.

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  • Better PoSH: Using $PSDefaultParameterValues

    2019-07-15 PowerShell

    Today's quick PoSH tip comes from a conversation I had with Kevin Crouch (@PsychoData) and Brett Miller (@BrettMiller_IT), and I got to learn about the $PSDefaultParameterValues variable, which I'd never used before. Essentially, $PSDefaultParameterValue allows you to define ahead of your functions how certain …

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  • Detecting Skype Activity with PowerShell

    2019-07-11 PowerShell Skype

    I'm working on a project to get a number of drivers updated across an environment. One of the biggest problems is that if we update certain audio, video, or network drivers while the user is in a Skype call, the call will fail. Often in testing I found that reconnecting to the Skype call or presentation was difficult …

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Chris Kibble

Technologist, PowerShell, Desktop Engineering, SQL.

Recent Posts

  • Setup Google Cloud Certificate Authority - Part 1
  • Standing Up a Microsoft Certificate Authority - Part 7
  • How to Query the SCCM Database With SQL Server Mgmt Studio
  • Using Flash Beyond the End of Life Date

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