The Flexbox Bug That Won't Let Your Panel Scroll: min-height: 0
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.
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Across the notebook
Troubleshooting.
Entries sharing this tag, wherever they're filed.
The -WhatIf Trap Hiding in ForEach-Object
A dry run that quietly lies to you. Why ForEach-Object's property shorthand returns nothing under -WhatIf, and the one-line fix.
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Check MECM Software Update Deployment Status with PowerShell
One object per update deployment with targeted, compliant, failed and unknown counts, so you can spot the deployments that need you.
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Clean Reinstall of the Microsoft Graph PowerShell Modules
When Graph cmdlets start throwing assembly errors, it's almost always mixed module versions. This removes every copy and puts back one matching set.
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Report on Everything an Entra ID Group Touches with 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.
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Making a Mac OS Extended (HFS+) USB Drive on Windows with TransMac
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.
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List Installed Software on Windows with PowerShell
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.
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Removing Stale Windows User Profiles the Right Way
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.
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Cleaning Up Abandoned Outlook OST Files
Find the old Outlook .ost files nobody is using any more and reclaim the space, without touching the ones Outlook has open.
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A Safer Windows Disk Cleanup 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.
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Re-Enable Windows Update with PowerShell: Find Every Registry Block, Not Just One
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.
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Find Out Why a Windows Machine Rebooted 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.
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Quest 2 After a Swim: Stuck Boot Dot, Buzzing Controllers, and What I Tried
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.
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Emptying the Recycle Bin from PowerShell, Quietly
Empty the Recycle Bin with no prompt, for one user or everyone on the machine, and optionally keep anything deleted recently.
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Collecting Windows Update Logs with an SCCM Package
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.
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Checking WinRM Before You Patch Remotely (Packaged for SCCM)
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.
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Flushing the DNS Cache on One PC or Fifty
Clear the Windows DNS client cache locally or across a list of machines, and know when a flush will actually fix anything.
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Trigger Intune Automatic Enrollment on a Windows Device with 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.
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Pushing DNS Servers to Clients with RADIUS Vendor-Specific Attributes
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.
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How to Enroll a Windows Device in Intune by Hand
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.
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Checklist: Moving a Device from MDE Security Settings Management 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.
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Take Control of Explorer's Preview Pane with PowerShell
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.
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Chasing ClientOtherError in Azure Files: Is It Your SDK or Your Code?
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.
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WSUS, WUfB or Windows Update? Check (and Reset) Where a PC Gets Its Updates
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.
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Check Whether Two Files (or Two Folders) Are Really Identical
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.
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Clearing a Stuck Print Spooler with PowerShell
Stop the spooler, clear out the wedged job files, and bring it back up, with -WhatIf and an option to leave recent jobs alone.
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Forcing a Group Policy Refresh 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.
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Audit a Windows Service Across Many Computers with PowerShell
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.
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