EXPLORE THE NOTEBOOK
Notes from the command line, the workbench, and the vintage computer shelf.
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.
Spring cleaning for Windows PCs · Note 7 ↗Stop the spooler, clear out the wedged job files, and bring it back up, with -WhatIf and an option to leave recent jobs alone.
Spring cleaning for Windows PCs · Note 5 ↗Remove the internal drive password from Dell PCs with Dell's PowerShell provider, without ever writing the password into a script or package.
Dell BIOS passwords, without the pain · Note 3 ↗Write extensionAttribute1-15 on cloud-only Entra ID users from a CSV, with a clear note for every synced account it can't touch.
The Microsoft Graph toolbox · Note 2 ↗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.
Getting devices into Intune · Note 6 ↗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.
Local admin, done right · Note 3 ↗The parts list, the free operating systems and the honest performance expectations for a Raspberry Pi 4 emulation box, plus how much storage each system really needs.
The emulation bench · Note 1 ↗A gpupdate wrapper that checks the domain trust first, never bounces anyone's session, and reports a real success or failure back to ConfigMgr.
Packaging with ConfigMgr · Note 4 ↗What each cooking method actually means in heat and minutes, the small mistakes that quietly wreck dinner, and five cheap meals built from a short list of staples.
The reference shelf · Note 8 ↗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.
Keeping Active Directory tidy · Note 5 ↗The five or so years when arcade games went from a novelty to everywhere, from Space Invaders to Dragon's Lair, the technology that changed on the way, and why it all fell off a cliff in 1983.
Console field guide · Note 1 ↗Spoons to cups to quarts, ounces to grams, what a cup of flour or sugar actually weighs, and the water-to-rice ratios for four common kinds of rice.
The reference shelf · Note 7 ↗
