Interview – 5 Places You Could Get Lost Within and Not Mind at All
This time the question was: “Name (up to) 5 places you could easily get lost within for hours, and not mind at all.” Amy Casto @AdaptivaAmi Anywhere there are horses BÃ¥stad Sweden Antelope Island near...
View ArticleMy Favorite Things: 2017
My Favorite Tech Web Sites / Tools RegExr Regular Expressions W3 Schools JSON Generator FreeFormatter My Favorite Tech Web Sites / Blogs Deployment Research 2-Pint Software Windows Noob SCConfigMgr...
View ArticleGreat Moments in Obscure History: 1990
On this date, in 1990, a young man named Dave was working for an engineering firm in a small brick building buried somewhere in the southern United States. His team was a merry group, who passed the...
View ArticleBloggy stuff, part 47
This week, I have accomplished a few things which may or may not be significant. Who knows. I turned 55 I got a bottle of Glenn Fiddich 12-year old Scotch I got to shoot the same shotgun John Wick used...
View ArticleThe User Desktop Experience Support Expert’s Guide to Expert Support Guidance...
Introduction There are many great blog posts, articles, whitepapers, videos and podcasts, that cover the plethora of angles involved with customizing the desktop “user experience” for users of...
View ArticleSome Dimented Dimensions of ConfigMgr Data
So, over the past few weeks, like most of the rest of the incredible people on our team, I’ve been working multiple projects for different customers around SCCM and other things. My biggest struggle is...
View ArticleRandom thoughts
A short list of things I’ve learned in my fifty-five years on this planet, which has been sitting in my drafts bin for 2 years. Not everyone who wanders is lost. Assuming everyone who wanders is lost...
View ArticleNo Answers Yet. Just Questions
So, I’m running into a technical snag and not having much luck solving it, yet. Hence, why I’m posting this here: in the hopes you might see this and respond with an answer. So far, the best (hopeful)...
View ArticleThings I actually like
Because I hear that I’m normally dissatisfied with schlocky half-assed semi-passionate stuff, I decided to make a list of things I actually, really do like. These are in no particular order. My wife...
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PowerShell, Graph, Intune Data, Windows devices, ImportExcel, More Excel, and...
…with french fries. Ok. In the time it took to write that silly title I’ve finished a glass of super high-quality, ultra-premium, 5-star, platinum series, Trader Joe’s Cab-Sauv at $7.99 a bottle. Yes,...
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Discount Sci-Fi Tales: Inter-planetary adventures
Adventure 0.01 Once upon an intergalactic time, there was a planet, far from Earth, orbiting its sun, as it had for trillions of Earth years, when it was first discovered by relentless and underpaid...
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Destroying Orphaned OneDrive sites; See them Driven before you, and Hear the...
Today’s sampling of client cases… I’ve had two unrelated clients with the same issue: their Microsoft Cloud App Security alerts went bonkers over potential PCI sensitive file content in user OneDrive...
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A Query for the Weary
Trying to find SolarWinds Orion stuff in your Configuration Manager environment? Probably not, but in case you are, here’s a query to fire against your SQL site database. If you don’t have permissions...
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Great Moments in IT History
1993 “UUEncoding is so cool! You can download an entire JPEG in only 30 minutes!”“Let me tell you, 2400 baud is where it’s at. The Jetson’s are now, baby!” 1994 “OMG! you need to dump AOL and join...
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Let’s get (remote) connected. Mmmkay?
You start work on Monday at the reputable company KickedInTheFace.com, makers of robotic death machines for sale to anyone with a credit card. Their motto is “security is never secure enough“,...
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Who’s on First.
Setup: A doctor, a lawyer, and a cloud engineer, having a conversation over drinks. “I have a sore.” “You have a S.O.A.R.?” “No, a sore.” “Oh. I thought you mean a Security, Orchestration and...
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My Windows 11 Score Card
Updated: 2021-09-30 (see PS at the end) Windows 11 is actually 10.0.22449. If Steve Ballmer was still doing the monkey dance, it would most likely be named “Windows 10 Ultimate Extras Edition”....
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The Only Constant is Constantly Changing
“Welcome aboard! We’re so glad to have you join Macroswift! We want to make you feel comfortable and help you get up to speed with our organization and culture so you can be productive as soon as...
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When Unstoppable Optimism meets Immovable Stupidity
Side note: I started working on this in September 2021, but got sidetracked by some unexpected things. Hopefully it was worth the wait. If this sucks, head over to Reddit and dive in for more fun....
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