In this post I'm going to walk through the steps necessary to standup a pretty basic Certificate Authority (CA) within your on-premises Active Directory environment.  This is an introduction to CA only, and I'll admit that all of my knowledge is from working with consultants to stand environments up and from reading …

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 …

I've found myself hanging around some PowerShell chats lately, and I've been picking up on a lot of neat tricks to write better code. This one comes my way via Adam Cook from his blog post on his awesome new function Get-CMUnusedSources (seriously, if you're a ConfigMgr shop, check it out). Since PowerShell is one of …