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My discussion, tips and news on different subjects within Cloud Computing and Concepts

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Group Policy Overview

This tutorial will introduce you to Group Policy, a tool that allows you to centrally manage and apply user and computer settings and restrictions to maintain a consistent computer environment. Group Policy is made up of Group Policy Objects…
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Windows 10 – Servicing Model and Deployment

Windows 10 Servicing Model With Windows 10, a new model was introduced called “Windows as a service - WAAS”. Rather than new features being added only in new OS/every few years, WAAS will continually provide new capabilities. The Semi-Annual…
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SCCM Troubleshooting

Overview This article is meant to provide you an overview of common troubleshooting tasks centered around client health and upcoming SCCM components. I created several custom tools and scripts to aid in the detection and remediation of several…
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Active Directory: Troubleshooting & Overview

This tutorial provides an overview of Active Directory (AD), which is a collection of services used to manage identity and access for and to resources on a network. The tutorial describes various AD services, such as Domain Services, Lightweight…
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New Features in SCCM

What’s New in SCCM This guide is meant to summarize the latest features you can expect in the SCCM 1702, 1706 and 1710. Most of the information from these features was obtained by summarizing the information contained in Microsoft's SCCM documentation.…
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Intune Management Tool

Overview I created this application, Microsoft Intune Management Tool, to allow you to easily View the Microsoft Graph return content behind the settings applied and configured within your Intune tenant. Additionally, it has the ability to Backup…
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Threaded Computer Details Aggregator

Overview I created this application, Threaded Computer Details, to allow you to have a single point of data aggregation for common SCCM, DHCP and Active Directory metrics on the computers in your environment, and wrap those metrics around…
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Microsoft Graph Query Development Tool

Overview I created this application, Microsoft Graph Query Development Tool, to allow you to connect to your Microsoft Graph API to run REST requests. This is a development tool and allows you to work with Microsoft Graph data as an array…
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Intune Data Warehouse Connector Application

Overview I created this application, Intune Warehouse Connector Application, to allow you to connect to your Intune Data Warehouse to query and read collection data that sits in the warehouse. Your Intune Data Warehouse differs from the data…
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SCCM: Magic Offline Imaging Jumpdrive

Overview This is a “Magic Offline Imaging Jumpdrive” I put together that can be used for OEM imaging or offline imaging where you still need to join PC’s to the domain but don’t have access to the network when the computer is being…
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SCCM: Spectre / Meltdown Detection

Overview Contained in this article are the tools to help you detect and remediate the Spectre and Meltdown security vulnerabilities. This remediation is accomplished via the following SCCM configuration items which I specifically developed…
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SCCM: Automate Deployment of Required Updates

Overview This process will allow you to automate deployment of required WSUS updates in your SCCM environment that were missed by your Software Update ADR. A built in SCCM SQL report can indicate which WSUS software updates are required,…
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SCCM: New Deployments! Automated Report

Overview I created this script, Get-DMGSCCMNewDeployments, to allow you to send out an email report of new SCCM deployments in your environment. This script uses native SCCM methods to build an automated report that sends an easy to read…
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SCCM Script: Returning SQL Reports as Arrays

Overview This script will allow you to take a standard SCCM SQL Report and output the report, automatically, to either a .CSV file or to an array for use in a pipeline. Workflow This standard SCCM SQL report can be run which would allow…
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Certificate Template: Determining Compliance

Overview At times it is important to determine if a client machine has a certain certificate installed from a certificate template. I developed this script, Get-DMGCertificateTemplateExistance, to to detect if a certificate was created from…
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SCCM Script: Fix Kerberos Authentication Errors

Overview At times, SCCM client machines may lose the ability to communicate properly with the SCCM site server due to Kerberos authentication errors. You will see these errors in Deployment Statuses or other times invoking PowerShell scripts…
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Integrating LAPS with Citrix VDI

Overview The Local Administrator Password Solution is a great tool to help you manage local passwords on your corporate network. However, due to the non-persistant nature of some environments, such as Citrix VDI, it can become a security…
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SDE Incident Response Custom Reporting

Overview I developed these PowerShell scripts to generate a daily email report of open tickets within the Software Desk Express software database. The scripts get the content via SQL queries against your SDE SQL database and are piped into…
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Threadable Pinging Functions

Overview I developed this tool, Get-DMGThreadedPingableComputers.ps1, to allow you to ping several computers in your environment at once though multiple threads, severely decreasing the amount of time required to return ping results on a…
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HTML E-Mail Report Generator

Overview I created this series of functions to allow you to conveniently take one or more PowerShell object and have it turn into an email report. For example, if you had a list of computers you have come out of a PowerShell script you wrote,…
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Certificate Distribution – Deploying Software Inventory Logger

Overview I developed this tool to help you deploy Software Inventory Logger Servers. Software Inventory Logger collects Microsoft software inventory data on a per server basis and reports them to a central Software Inventory Aggregator. This…
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