You caught me. There is no Day 5 to the Midwest Management Summit - but as I'm getting ready to depart the Mall of America this Friday morning, I'm going to share a quick list of things that I'd like to share about the overall conference over the week. So in no particular order . . . The venue is a fantastic choice. …

Day three is under my belt and the information overload keeps coming. In case you missed it, I'm at the Midwest Management Summit at the Mall of America (MMSMOA) - you can read more about day 1, day 2, and day 3 in previous posts. Certificates and PKI for System Admins Speakers: Jason Sandys Jason did a fantastic job …

Day two is complete and a lot of more great things. In case you missed it, I'm at the Midwest Management Summit at the Mall of America (MMSMOA) - you can read more about day #1 here. Ten Things You Need as an Enterprise Scripter Speakers: Fred Bainbridge and Ryan Ephgrave Two great speakers on all things PowerShell in …

Day three is under my belt and the information overload keeps coming. In case you missed it, I'm at the Midwest Management Summit at the Mall of America (MMSMOA) - you can read more about day 1 and day 2 in previous posts. Patch Reporting: How Sure Are You? Speakers: Bryan Dam and Garth Jones This was Bryan's first …

I'm really excited to be attending the Midwest Management Summit (MMS) for this first time this year. For those who don't know, MMS has been running since 2015 and picks up where Microsoft dropped off. It's held yearly at the Mall of America, which is also great since it's my first time making it out here. The core …

I ran into an issue today where using redaction on a PDF in Acrobat X caused black marks throughout the document, even in places where I hadn't used redaction. After a few hours of troubleshooting, I was able to determine what I suspect to be the root cause, and came up with a resolution. To show you an example of the …

I wrote the following function to rerun an advertisement on a remote client computer using either the AdvertisementID or the PackageID. Like all sample code found online, please run through a test environment first, and use at your own risk! 1<# 2 …

I recently had to throw together a quick script to modify the registry of each current user on a set of given laptops, as well as any future users. While a GPO is normally the way to go for something like this, it wasn't an option for me here. This builds a little more on my May 2017 post where I just needed to get the …

I put together the following script to help a small group configure Microsoft Access during login in a kiosk environment. You're welcome to steal and modify as you see fit. For all the options you can possibly set, see this MSDN page (ignore the comment that it's for Visual Basic...) 1<# 2 …