I haven't blogged about it a lot, but I am trying to learn what I can about PowerShell on Linux. I feel like more and more services are headed to the cloud, and (even in Azure) will be able to run on Linux devices. Being able to write portable scripts to move between what I manage today, and what I may be asked to …

The following short and sweet snippet of PowerShell will extract the list of admins from your SCCM environment and then get their email addresses. At the end, you can dump $email into a text file, or perhaps set it to your clipboard to paste into Outlook. 1# Script assumes you have CM Module Loaded 2# Script assumes …

I wrote the following script to inventory the administrative users of my Configuration Manager (SCCM) environment as they relate to Active Directory. The end result is a list of users who no longer exist in Active Directory, users who are in Active Directory but disabled, and users who are granted rights in multiple …

In a post last week, I talked about how I've begun using YNAB in 2019 to manage my finances. As soon as I learned there was an API, you know I had to dig in and see what it could do. Below I've posted a short PowerShell script to query all credit cards and lines of credit and then dump them out to the console. Nothing …

One of my two New Years resolutions for 2019 was to do a better job managing my personal finances. I've been a religious Quicken user for about sixteen years, but I was starting to realize that it was doing a great job at telling me what I'd spent my money on, and ensuring that I never spent more than I had, but I …

After upgrading a number of systems to Visio 2016, I started to hear more and more about old pre-2010 Visio files in VSD format that would no longer open and would throw the following error: The strange thing was that the files were still launching without issue for users who were still on Visio 2010 and 2013. The …

A recently had a requirement to bundle a number of applications together into a few different task sequences to make available to a user collection. After a bit of research, I discovered that this is a pretty common question, and that there is no built-in method to make this available. Below, I'll walk through how I …

After pasting some content into Excel 365 (2016), I found that I had brought along thousands of little objects from the source data. These were tiny invisible objects, but they'd constantly get in the way of me clicking into a cell, because I'd inadvertently click on one of the objects instead. While I should have just …