Deploy Google Chrome silently with no shortcuts

Posted on September 10, 2018 by admin

Deploying applications is as easy as ABC when there is no need to repackage them. But then you get a request that requires some changes that should be easy. To deploy Google Chrome silently with no shortcuts is one of them and is not as easy as you might think.

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KB3159706 breaks WSUS

Posted on May 31, 2017 by admin

Apparently KB3159706 breaks WSUS for some of my customers. I’ve had a few calls where they say that WSUS doesn’t work any longer or that the Software Update Point in Configuration Manager is generating errors.

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Analytics Plus – Reports for SCCM

Posted on October 14, 2016 by admin

A while back I wrote a post on how to install and configure Analytics Plus from ManageEngine and how to get data from the System Center Configuration Manager database to create reports and dashboards.

In this post I will share with you SQL queries that might come in handy when you are about to hand in reports or when you are creating your own dashboards for monitoring. Continue reading →

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Analytics for your System Center Configuration Manager data

Posted on September 23, 2016 by admin

The most common question I get from my customers who are using Configuration Manager is without a doubt; “Can I get a report on this?”, “Is there a dashboard for this?” or other analytics.

Well, as most of you know, the reports straight out of System Center Configuration Manager isn’t always the best and there is no simple way of creating a dashboard either, at least not for the customer to use directly.

In this post I will be working with Analytics Plus from ManageEngine and show you how you can read data from the database directly and create a dashboard with three of the most common requests.

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Simple function for logging PowerShell script

Posted on August 26, 2016 by admin

When writing larger scripts, logging is a must, so in this post I will share a simple function for logging PowerShell script.

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Create blob storage in Azure with PowerShell

Posted on July 27, 2016 by admin

In this post I will show you how to create blob storage in Azure with PowerShell.
Azure blob storage is great for storing large amount of  data that is accessible from all around the world through HTTP or HTTPS.

I mainly use it for storing scripts that I use often at different customers instead of storing them locally on my computer or on one of many USB-sticks that I have a tendency to lose or misplace every other month. (Thank god for encryption and common sense not to save certain files and documents this way)

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Create a scheduled task with PowerShell

Posted on July 26, 2016 by admin

Sometimes during OSD I need to create a scheduled task with PowerShell so that the clients runs another script once the user has gotten the client.

In this short post, I will show you how to create a scheduled task that runs a script at logon, all through PowerShell.

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Check if the network cable is unplugged through PowerShell

Posted on July 23, 2016 by admin

In a recent script I did for a customer I needed to check if the network cable is unplugged through PowerShell on clients before continuing to execute the rest of the script.
With PowerShell you can get a lot of information about the network card, but depending on the client you may have more than one card, WiFi for example.

I decided to create a function to check if the cable is connected and send the adapter to this function. Continue reading →

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Configure a SMTP server in Azure

Posted on February 17, 2016 by admin

Sometimes in my scripts I need to send the result in a mail, but I don’t always have access to a SMTP server, so I decided to configure a SMTP server in Azure that I can use.

I will use SendGrid Email Delivery for this since I will get 25.000 free emails each month, more than I will ever use.

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Get users in an AD-group and mail the content

Posted on February 12, 2016 by admin

Today I got a question if could write a small script to get users in an AD-group and mail the content to the service-desk. (Easy way to keep track of licenses for O365 for example)
The complete script can be found in the bottom of this post.

This script can easily be added to a scheduled task that will run once every week or more often depending on your needs.

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