https://wesellis.com/A personal notebook on technology, things I'm building, writing, and life away from the keyboard.en-ushttps://wesellis.com/blog/picking-an-android-handheld-for-emulation-and-movies/https://wesellis.com/blog/picking-an-android-handheld-for-emulation-and-movies/One device for PS2 emulation and my own movie files, smaller than a Steam Deck, with a microSD slot. The shortlist, the detour into phones, and where I'm leaning.https://wesellis.com/blog/modding-shadow-of-mordor-in-2026/https://wesellis.com/blog/modding-shadow-of-mordor-in-2026/A twelve-year-old game, a proxy DLL, a ReShade preset and a trick for hiding the HUD. The Shadow of Mordor mod setup I put together this month.https://wesellis.com/blog/cyberpunk-2077-mod-loadout/https://wesellis.com/blog/cyberpunk-2077-mod-loadout/I bounced off Cyberpunk once because the guns felt stiff. Here's the mod list I'm running on the 2.3x Steam version now, and what all those frameworks actually do.https://wesellis.com/blog/deckport/https://wesellis.com/blog/deckport/Deckport is my open-source Python tool that registers portable native Linux games as Steam Deck non-Steam shortcuts, with artwork, so they show up in Game Mode ready to play.https://wesellis.com/blog/weatherstar-4000/https://wesellis.com/blog/weatherstar-4000/My open-source Python and pygame recreation of the WeatherStar 4000, built for Raspberry Pi and CRT TVs, with live weather data and 26-plus display modes.https://wesellis.com/blog/arcade-cabinet-4x3-coinops/https://wesellis.com/blog/arcade-cabinet-4x3-coinops/Notes from an arcade cabinet build in progress, on why the monitor is 4:3, and why a PC running CoinOPS won out over a plug-and-play Pandora-style board.https://wesellis.com/blog/fieldstation42-cable-box-build/https://wesellis.com/blog/fieldstation42-cable-box-build/A build log for a Raspberry Pi cable box that runs FieldStation42 on a CRT, with a keypad, an LED channel display, a guide channel and a WeatherStar weather channel.https://wesellis.com/blog/flexbox-min-height-zero-scroll-bug/https://wesellis.com/blog/flexbox-min-height-zero-scroll-bug/Your scroll area has overflow:auto, the layout is 100vh, and the whole page scrolls anyway. Blame the automatic minimum size of flex items, and fix it with one line.https://wesellis.com/blog/four-letter-bookmarks-bar/https://wesellis.com/blog/four-letter-bookmarks-bar/Six folders, four capital letters each, one tidy row. How I keep my browser bookmarks from turning into a junk drawer.https://wesellis.com/blog/linux-mint-thinkpad-t14-gen-3/https://wesellis.com/blog/linux-mint-thinkpad-t14-gen-3/My everyday laptop is a ThinkPad T14 Gen 3 running Linux Mint. Why that pairing, how Dropbox fits in, and the few things worth setting up on day one.https://wesellis.com/blog/flatten-media-library-into-letter-buckets/https://wesellis.com/blog/flatten-media-library-into-letter-buckets/A PowerShell script that sorts every show and movie in a folder into flat A-Z buckets, skips anything that would collide, and dry-runs honestly.https://wesellis.com/blog/check-powershell-syntax-without-running-it/https://wesellis.com/blog/check-powershell-syntax-without-running-it/Use PowerShell's own parser to catch typos and broken brackets in a whole folder of scripts, before anything runs.https://wesellis.com/blog/rebuilding-the-notebook/https://wesellis.com/blog/rebuilding-the-notebook/101 old posts, three versions of a design, and one very specific idea about what a personal website should feel like.https://wesellis.com/blog/choosing-a-cms-for-a-static-blog/https://wesellis.com/blog/choosing-a-cms-for-a-static-blog/I know WordPress inside and out, and I still didn't use it for this site. What I compared, and why I landed on Sveltia CMS.https://wesellis.com/blog/self-hosting-web-fonts/https://wesellis.com/blog/self-hosting-web-fonts/The site looked perfect on my machine and wrong everywhere else. The sneaky reason, and how to self-host web fonts properly.https://wesellis.com/blog/security-headers-static-site-digitalocean/https://wesellis.com/blog/security-headers-static-site-digitalocean/My brand-new blog got an F on a security header scan. Here's why, what actually matters for a static site, and the fixes that work on DigitalOcean App Platform.https://wesellis.com/blog/powershell-whatif-foreach-object-trap/https://wesellis.com/blog/powershell-whatif-foreach-object-trap/A dry run that quietly lies to you. Why ForEach-Object's property shorthand returns nothing under -WhatIf, and the one-line fix.https://wesellis.com/blog/monitoring-azure-resource-costs-with-powershell/https://wesellis.com/blog/monitoring-azure-resource-costs-with-powershell/Find out which resource groups are eating your Azure budget, straight from PowerShell, no portal clicking required.https://wesellis.com/blog/automating-user-offboarding-in-azure-ad-with-powershell/https://wesellis.com/blog/automating-user-offboarding-in-azure-ad-with-powershell/One script that locks a departing user out, cleans up their groups and licenses, and keeps their mail, with a CSV record of every step.https://wesellis.com/blog/managing-local-administrators-with-powershell-and-security-groups/https://wesellis.com/blog/managing-local-administrators-with-powershell-and-security-groups/Put a domain group into the local Administrators group on a list of computers (or take one out) over PowerShell remoting, with a result for every machine and -WhatIf first.https://wesellis.com/blog/retrieving-mecm-software-update-information-with-powershell/https://wesellis.com/blog/retrieving-mecm-software-update-information-with-powershell/One object per update deployment with targeted, compliant, failed and unknown counts, so you can spot the deployments that need you.https://wesellis.com/blog/automating-software-update-deployments-in-mecm-with-powershell/https://wesellis.com/blog/automating-software-update-deployments-in-mecm-with-powershell/Find the updates the most machines are actually missing, bundle them into a group, and deploy them to a pilot collection, with a WhatIf preview first.https://wesellis.com/blog/upgrading-windows-editions-with-powershell-and-a-mak-key/https://wesellis.com/blog/upgrading-windows-editions-with-powershell-and-a-mak-key/Install a product key, activate it and confirm the edition actually changed, without the key ever landing in a script file or a log.https://wesellis.com/blog/automating-mecm-package-creation-with-powershell/https://wesellis.com/blog/automating-mecm-package-creation-with-powershell/Turn "wrap this script in a package and push it to the DPs" into one command, with a dry run before anything gets created.https://wesellis.com/blog/refreshing-microsoft-graph-modules-in-powershell/https://wesellis.com/blog/refreshing-microsoft-graph-modules-in-powershell/When Graph cmdlets start throwing assembly errors, it's almost always mixed module versions. This removes every copy and puts back one matching set.https://wesellis.com/blog/analyzing-microsoft-365-groups-with-powershell-and-microsoft-graph/https://wesellis.com/blog/analyzing-microsoft-365-groups-with-powershell-and-microsoft-graph/Before you rename, rescope or delete a group, find out what it's wired to. Members, owners, licenses, apps and Intune policies, in one report.https://wesellis.com/blog/exporting-active-directory-computer-objects-to-csv/https://wesellis.com/blog/exporting-active-directory-computer-objects-to-csv/A computer inventory straight out of AD, with OS build, last logon, password age and OU in one tidy CSV, ready for audits or a stale-machine cleanup.https://wesellis.com/blog/powershell-cbr-to-cbz-converter-webp-optimization/https://wesellis.com/blog/powershell-cbr-to-cbz-converter-webp-optimization/Turn a folder of CBR comics into CBZ with 7-Zip, and optionally shrink the pages to WebP with cwebp or ImageMagick, testing every file before anything is replaced.https://wesellis.com/blog/grams-classic-white-layer-cake-recipe/https://wesellis.com/blog/grams-classic-white-layer-cake-recipe/From the recipe box: gram's classic white layer cake: a treasured family recipe revealed. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/organizing-vintage-mac-software/https://wesellis.com/blog/organizing-vintage-mac-software/The folder layout and naming rules I use for a pile of old Mac software, and the small PowerShell script that does the renaming without losing the original names.https://wesellis.com/blog/how-to-create-macos-extended-usb-windows/https://wesellis.com/blog/how-to-create-macos-extended-usb-windows/How I format and load HFS+ USB drives for old Macs from a Windows PC, plus the retro-specific catches that trip you up on the Mac side.https://wesellis.com/blog/automated-7z-to-zip-conversion-script-2/https://wesellis.com/blog/automated-7z-to-zip-conversion-script-2/Repack .7z files as plain Deflate ZIPs with UTF-8 file names, including password-protected ones, and test every result before the original goes anywhere.https://wesellis.com/blog/windows-software-inventory-powershell-script/https://wesellis.com/blog/windows-software-inventory-powershell-script/A quick, safe software inventory from the registry, local or remote, that returns objects you can filter and export instead of a wall of colored text.https://wesellis.com/blog/automated-windows-user-profile-cleanup-script/https://wesellis.com/blog/automated-windows-user-profile-cleanup-script/Clean old user profiles off shared PCs and servers through Win32_UserProfile, so the folder and the registry entry go together and nobody gets a TEMP profile.https://wesellis.com/blog/automated-outlook-ost-cleanup-powershell/https://wesellis.com/blog/automated-outlook-ost-cleanup-powershell/Find the old Outlook .ost files nobody is using any more and reclaim the space, without touching the ones Outlook has open.https://wesellis.com/blog/advanced-windows-disk-cleanup-powershell-script/https://wesellis.com/blog/advanced-windows-disk-cleanup-powershell-script/Clear old temp files from the usual suspects and run Disk Cleanup unattended, with an age threshold and a -WhatIf that shows how much you'd get back.https://wesellis.com/blog/enable-windows-update-powershell-registry-script/https://wesellis.com/blog/enable-windows-update-powershell-registry-script/When Windows Update is greyed out or just won't run, check all the policy values and services that can block it, and put them back the way Windows shipped.https://wesellis.com/blog/powershell-multi-drive-content-migration-script/https://wesellis.com/blog/powershell-multi-drive-content-migration-script/Hand a list of folders from several drives to robocopy in one go, keep their structure on the new drive, catch name collisions before anything moves, and get a log per folder.https://wesellis.com/blog/understanding-system-reboot-history-with-powershell/https://wesellis.com/blog/understanding-system-reboot-history-with-powershell/Pull shutdown, startup and crash events from the System log so you can tell a planned restart from a power cut, and see who or what asked for it.https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-a-windows-admin-account-using-powershell/https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-a-windows-admin-account-using-powershell/A one-off local admin account done properly, with a hidden password prompt, a language-proof group lookup, and an expiry date for the temporary ones.https://wesellis.com/blog/quest-2-water-damage-recovery-troubleshooting/https://wesellis.com/blog/quest-2-water-damage-recovery-troubleshooting/My notes from trying to bring a water-damaged Meta Quest 2 back to life, what each symptom probably points to, and where I'd go next.https://wesellis.com/blog/youtube-shorts-child-anxiety-guide/https://wesellis.com/blog/youtube-shorts-child-anxiety-guide/An entry from the original blog about parenting, short-form video, and childhood anxiety.https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-for-administrator-account-configuration/https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-for-administrator-account-configuration/Roll out a named local admin account with a random password nobody knows, ready for Windows LAPS to take over, and optionally retire the built-in Administrator.https://wesellis.com/blog/logo-design-for-venable-cares-at-venable-elementary-school/https://wesellis.com/blog/logo-design-for-venable-cares-at-venable-elementary-school/I recently worked on a design project for Venable Cares at Venable Elementary School in Charlottesville, VA. My contribution included creating the logo for Venable Cares. The logo design…https://wesellis.com/blog/automating-recycle-bin-management/https://wesellis.com/blog/automating-recycle-bin-management/Empty the Recycle Bin with no prompt, for one user or everyone on the machine, and optionally keep anything deleted recently.https://wesellis.com/blog/generating-location-based-device-reports-in-kace/https://wesellis.com/blog/generating-location-based-device-reports-in-kace/Export your KACE device inventory to CSV and get a per-location (or per-label) device count, optionally just the machines added this week.https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-to-enable-windows-update-logging/https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-to-enable-windows-update-logging/On Windows 10 and 11 there's no Windows Update logging to switch on. The trick is collecting it, and this script does that in one zip per machine.https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-to-check-windows-update-winrm-status/https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-to-check-windows-update-winrm-status/A read-first WinRM check that tells you why remote PowerShell won't connect, fixes it only when you ask, and doubles as a ConfigMgr compliance script.https://wesellis.com/blog/automating-dns-cache-clearing-with-a-batch-script/https://wesellis.com/blog/automating-dns-cache-clearing-with-a-batch-script/Clear the Windows DNS client cache locally or across a list of machines, and know when a flush will actually fix anything.https://wesellis.com/blog/hash-brown-casserole/https://wesellis.com/blog/hash-brown-casserole/From the recipe box: hash brown casserole. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/past-it-projects/https://wesellis.com/blog/past-it-projects/From the original portfolio: enterprise migrations, endpoint management, and technical implementations.https://wesellis.com/blog/how-to-add-a-device-to-intune-using-powershell/https://wesellis.com/blog/how-to-add-a-device-to-intune-using-powershell/For the Entra-joined PC that never showed up in Intune. Check it's ready, kick off enrollment, and see why it failed if it does.https://wesellis.com/blog/diner-style-omelet/https://wesellis.com/blog/diner-style-omelet/From the recipe box: diner style omelet. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/azure-ad-authentication-update/https://wesellis.com/blog/azure-ad-authentication-update/Load mobile numbers into Entra ID as an authentication method before users ever sign in, without stomping on numbers they've already registered.https://wesellis.com/blog/how-to-make-eggs/https://wesellis.com/blog/how-to-make-eggs/From the recipe box: how to make eggs. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/how-to-setup-radius-dns-vsa/https://wesellis.com/blog/how-to-setup-radius-dns-vsa/How RADIUS VSAs work, how to add one in Windows NPS or FreeRADIUS to hand out DNS servers, and how to prove your VPN or NAS is actually using it.https://wesellis.com/blog/diner-style-home-fries/https://wesellis.com/blog/diner-style-home-fries/From the recipe box: diner style home fries. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/easy-camping-breakfast-tacos/https://wesellis.com/blog/easy-camping-breakfast-tacos/From the recipe box: easy camping breakfast tacos. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/managing-devices-with-microsoft-intune/https://wesellis.com/blog/managing-devices-with-microsoft-intune/A plain-spoken tour of what Intune actually handles, where it stops, and the identity decisions you want settled before the first device shows up.https://wesellis.com/blog/sausage-hash-brown-scramble/https://wesellis.com/blog/sausage-hash-brown-scramble/From the recipe box: sausage hash brown scramble. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/irish-breakfast/https://wesellis.com/blog/irish-breakfast/From the recipe box: irish breakfast. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/how-to-quickly-enroll-a-local-device-into-microsoft-intune/https://wesellis.com/blog/how-to-quickly-enroll-a-local-device-into-microsoft-intune/The Settings app route into Intune, which of its three options to pick, and why the device might show up as personal when you didn't want it to.https://wesellis.com/blog/how-to-move-a-device-from-microsoft-defender-security-center-to-intune/https://wesellis.com/blog/how-to-move-a-device-from-microsoft-defender-security-center-to-intune/A practical checklist for taking a device that gets its security policy through Defender for Endpoint and enrolling it in Intune without leaving a gap.https://wesellis.com/blog/bagel-egg-hash-brown-sandwich/https://wesellis.com/blog/bagel-egg-hash-brown-sandwich/From the recipe box: bagel, egg, hash brown sandwich. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/blt-e-sandwich-b-e-l-t/https://wesellis.com/blog/blt-e-sandwich-b-e-l-t/From the recipe box: blt & e sandwich (b.e.l.t.). Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/configuring-dns-settings-for-domain-controllers-using-powershell/https://wesellis.com/blog/configuring-dns-settings-for-domain-controllers-using-powershell/Point each domain controller at a partner DC first and itself (127.0.0.1) last, the way Microsoft recommends, across all your DCs in one pass.https://wesellis.com/blog/cheese-and-chive-omelet/https://wesellis.com/blog/cheese-and-chive-omelet/From the recipe box: cheese and chive omelet. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/disabling-smbv1-protocol-for-enhanced-security/https://wesellis.com/blog/disabling-smbv1-protocol-for-enhanced-security/Audit who still talks SMBv1 to your machines, then switch it off for good, with one script and three modes.https://wesellis.com/blog/golden-breakfast-potatoes/https://wesellis.com/blog/golden-breakfast-potatoes/From the recipe box: golden breakfast potatoes. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-for-bios-password-override/https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-for-bios-password-override/Turn on Dell's Password Bypass so patch reboots don't sit at a power-on password prompt all night, then turn it back off when you're done.https://wesellis.com/blog/sausage-smash-croissant/https://wesellis.com/blog/sausage-smash-croissant/From the recipe box: sausage smash croissant. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/fresh-hash-browns-from-scratch/https://wesellis.com/blog/fresh-hash-browns-from-scratch/From the recipe box: fresh hash browns from scratch. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/southwestern-hash/https://wesellis.com/blog/southwestern-hash/From the recipe box: southwestern hash. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/structured-approach-to-managing-update-risks/https://wesellis.com/blog/structured-approach-to-managing-update-risks/How I think about patch risk now. Sort updates by blast radius, roll them out in rings, decide what "bad" looks like up front, and know your way back before you need it.https://wesellis.com/blog/windows-explorer-preview-handlers-automated-installation-guide/https://wesellis.com/blog/windows-explorer-preview-handlers-automated-installation-guide/List the preview handlers installed on a PC, see which one each file type uses, and point extensions like .log, .ps1 or .json at the handler you want.https://wesellis.com/blog/crispy-hash-browns/https://wesellis.com/blog/crispy-hash-browns/From the recipe box: crispy hash browns. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-and-configuring-tier-2-organizational-units-and-management-group-in-active-directory/https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-and-configuring-tier-2-organizational-units-and-management-group-in-active-directory/Create the Tier 2 OU, its sub-OUs and the group that manages them, and delegate just enough rights for workstation and user admin work.https://wesellis.com/blog/exporting-active-directory-organizational-units-to-csv/https://wesellis.com/blog/exporting-active-directory-organizational-units-to-csv/Dump every OU in the domain to a spreadsheet, with a readable path, depth, GPO link count and, if you want, how many objects live in each one.https://wesellis.com/blog/breezy-oaks-real-estate-photography/https://wesellis.com/blog/breezy-oaks-real-estate-photography/A yellow house, a collection of Ferraris, and 39 recovered photographs from my Breezy Oaks property shoot.https://wesellis.com/blog/full-breakfast/https://wesellis.com/blog/full-breakfast/From the recipe box: full breakfast. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/sweet-potato-hash/https://wesellis.com/blog/sweet-potato-hash/From the recipe box: sweet potato hash. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/how-to-review-client-code-or-library-for-azure-file-storage-issues/https://wesellis.com/blog/how-to-review-client-code-or-library-for-azure-file-storage-issues/What ClientOtherError really counts in Azure Files metrics, how to find which calls cause it, and what to look for in the client library code making them.https://wesellis.com/blog/discovering-console-width-powershell/https://wesellis.com/blog/discovering-console-width-powershell/A width check that works in a real console, in VS Code, and in scheduled tasks and CI runners where there's no window to measure.https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-to-add-windows-update-service-manager-2/https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-to-add-windows-update-service-manager-2/One script that reads the WSUS, scan-source and Windows Update for Business settings on a device and tells you where it's really getting updates from, with a safe reset for leftovers.https://wesellis.com/blog/powershell-script-verify-file-identity/https://wesellis.com/blog/powershell-script-verify-file-identity/Compare files, whole folder trees, or a download against its published checksum with Get-FileHash, and get back a clear Match or Different for every file.https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-and-applying-configuration-profiles-in-intune-for-provisioned-devices/https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-and-applying-configuration-profiles-in-intune-for-provisioned-devices/How to build a configuration profile in Intune, roll it out to machines that are already in people's hands, and confirm it actually landed.https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-to-add-windows-update-service-manager/https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-to-add-windows-update-service-manager/Register the Microsoft Update service through the Windows Update Agent's own COM API, so devices pick up Office and other Microsoft product updates, not just Windows.https://wesellis.com/blog/hash-brown-omelet/https://wesellis.com/blog/hash-brown-omelet/From the recipe box: hash brown omelet. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/active-directory-service-account-info/https://wesellis.com/blog/active-directory-service-account-info/One report for every kind of service account, gMSAs and old-school user accounts alike, showing password age, SPNs, delegation and who can read the gMSA password.https://wesellis.com/blog/pancakes/https://wesellis.com/blog/pancakes/The griddle temperature, resting time, and little details behind a simple pancake breakfast.https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-and-configuring-a-tier-0-management-delegation-group-in-active-directory/https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-and-configuring-a-tier-0-management-delegation-group-in-active-directory/Create a Tier 0 admin group, keep it where only Tier 0 can touch it, and give it full control of the Tier 0 OU. Preview the whole thing with -WhatIf first.https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-for-bios-admin-reinitialize/https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-for-bios-admin-reinitialize/Put a BIOS admin password on new Dells, or change the old one across the fleet, with both passwords handed over at runtime.https://wesellis.com/blog/pepper-or-candy-bacon/https://wesellis.com/blog/pepper-or-candy-bacon/From the recipe box: pepper or candy bacon. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/zip-to-7z-conversion-mastery/https://wesellis.com/blog/zip-to-7z-conversion-mastery/Repack ZIPs as 7z, see exactly how much space each one saved, and keep the ZIP when the 7z wouldn't be any smaller.https://wesellis.com/blog/folder-archiving-powershell/https://wesellis.com/blog/folder-archiving-powershell/Find project folders that haven't changed in N days, zip each one to an archive location with the date of its last change, verify it, and optionally clear out the original.https://wesellis.com/blog/cinnamon-rolls/https://wesellis.com/blog/cinnamon-rolls/From the recipe box: cinnamon rolls. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-to-configure-high-performance-power-plan/https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-to-configure-high-performance-power-plan/Switch workstations to High Performance (or Ultimate Performance) by GUID, restore the plan if the image hid it, and don't end up with five copies of it.https://wesellis.com/blog/3-cheese-omelet/https://wesellis.com/blog/3-cheese-omelet/From the recipe box: 3 cheese omelet. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/archive-conversion-powershell/https://wesellis.com/blog/archive-conversion-powershell/Integrity-test every ZIP, 7z, RAR and TAR in a folder, then optionally repack the good ones into a single format. Broken archives never get touched.https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-for-bios-admin-unlock/https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-for-bios-admin-unlock/Clear the BIOS setup password on Dell PCs and see exactly what changed, with the password supplied at runtime instead of sitting in a package.https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-for-cherwell-service-management-uninstaller/https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-for-cherwell-service-management-uninstaller/One uninstall script for every retired app. Give it a display name and it finds the right uninstall command, MSI or not, and runs it quietly.https://wesellis.com/blog/automate-google-chrome-updates-with-a-batch-script/https://wesellis.com/blog/automate-google-chrome-updates-with-a-batch-script/Find out which Chrome version a machine is really running, whether an update is stuck waiting on a restart, and kick Google's updater into checking now.https://wesellis.com/blog/clearing-print-spooler-to-resolve-stuck-jobs/https://wesellis.com/blog/clearing-print-spooler-to-resolve-stuck-jobs/Stop the spooler, clear out the wedged job files, and bring it back up, with -WhatIf and an option to leave recent jobs alone.https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-for-bios-hdd-unlock/https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-for-bios-hdd-unlock/Remove the internal drive password from Dell PCs with Dell's PowerShell provider, without ever writing the password into a script or package.https://wesellis.com/blog/azure-ad-custom-attribute-update/https://wesellis.com/blog/azure-ad-custom-attribute-update/Write extensionAttribute1-15 on cloud-only Entra ID users from a CSV, with a clear note for every synced account it can't touch.https://wesellis.com/blog/how-to-move-a-device-from-microsoft-defender-for-endpoint-mde-to-intune/https://wesellis.com/blog/how-to-move-a-device-from-microsoft-defender-for-endpoint-mde-to-intune/Onboarding to Defender for Endpoint and enrolling in Intune are two different things, and you almost never have to offboard one to get the other.https://wesellis.com/blog/egg-in-a-basket/https://wesellis.com/blog/egg-in-a-basket/From the recipe box: egg in a basket. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-for-administrator-password-renewal/https://wesellis.com/blog/creating-an-sccm-package-for-administrator-password-renewal/Force an immediate local admin password rotation on every machine in a collection, with Windows LAPS doing the password part so no script ever sees one.https://wesellis.com/blog/breakfast-fiesta-mix/https://wesellis.com/blog/breakfast-fiesta-mix/From the recipe box: breakfast fiesta mix. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/automating-group-policy-update-with-powershell-and-sccm/https://wesellis.com/blog/automating-group-policy-update-with-powershell-and-sccm/A gpupdate wrapper that checks the domain trust first, never bounces anyone's session, and reports a real success or failure back to ConfigMgr.https://wesellis.com/blog/omelet-using-a-ring/https://wesellis.com/blog/omelet-using-a-ring/From the recipe box: omelet using a ring. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/tater-tot-hash-browns/https://wesellis.com/blog/tater-tot-hash-browns/From the recipe box: tater tot hash browns. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/powershell-script-to-delete-devices-from-active-directory-and-save-logs/https://wesellis.com/blog/powershell-script-to-delete-devices-from-active-directory-and-save-logs/Feed it a list or an OU, and it deletes (or disables) only the computers that are genuinely stale, logs every decision to CSV, and shows you the plan first with -WhatIf.https://wesellis.com/blog/biscuits-gravy/https://wesellis.com/blog/biscuits-gravy/From the recipe box: biscuits & gravy. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/powershell-service-audit/https://wesellis.com/blog/powershell-service-audit/Feed it a list of computers and a service name, get back one row per machine saying whether it's installed, running, and how it starts.https://wesellis.com/blog/banana-foster-pancakes/https://wesellis.com/blog/banana-foster-pancakes/From the recipe box: banana foster pancakes. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/understanding-the-purpose-of-get-windowsautopilotinfo-ps1/https://wesellis.com/blog/understanding-the-purpose-of-get-windowsautopilotinfo-ps1/The hardware hash script behind Windows Autopilot, explained. Upload straight to Intune with -Online, or export a CSV when the device can't reach the tenant.https://wesellis.com/blog/bacon-goat-cheese-hash/https://wesellis.com/blog/bacon-goat-cheese-hash/From the recipe box: bacon goat cheese hash. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.https://wesellis.com/blog/border-fiesta-omelet/https://wesellis.com/blog/border-fiesta-omelet/From the recipe box: border fiesta omelet. Ingredients, method, and directions from the original kitchen notebook.