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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …