Last week I Fred Bainbridge and Ryan Ephgrave's MMSMOA session where they showed us that we shouldn't be using the pipeline anymore. Before beginning the session, I was as confused as you might be about why. The guys did a great job explaining it and I'm going to show you why in the same manner they showed me. Let's …

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<# …

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<# …

The following snippet of PowerShell will collect the list of profiles active on a system from the registry and populate an array. I remove any profile folder that does not exist, as well as any that are within the Windows folder (e.g. NetworkService, LocalSystem), but you can modify as you see fit if that doesn't meet …

Chrome does not remove "Recent Printers" from the print option box when a user or an administrator deletes a printer from the machine. This can cause problems when a printer is removed by policy or is updated with a new print server name, but a user continues totry and print to the old server. This script …

I wrote the following PowerShell script so that I could easily watch my GPO changes replicate around the globe, letting me know when I could have someone at a specific site update policy when new policies or changes were rolled out. To use, just replace $gpoGUID = "{12345678-1234-5678-9123-ABCDEFEDCBA0}" with …

I wrote the following script to find inactive computers in Active Directory and then find & delete them from SCCM. Feel free to use & abuse as you see fit, but always run through a test environment first. My version makes sure to target only Windows Operating Systems, and excludes anything with Server in the …