Dear security experts, PowerShell is not a vulnerability, in fact its your friend in keeping environments secure. I know it can be scary cause PowerShell is pretty damn powerful, but disabling remote PowerShell is not the answer. Whats this all about? In December I received an email about changes to an environment I help manage. …
I don’t usually get into speculation or predictions. More often than not they turn out wrong. However, something that I’ve been thinking about is the Kusto Query Language, which is the language behind many of my recent posts on Azure Log Analytics. But the PowerShell of query languages? PowerShell is pretty ubiquitous at this point, …
Over the years I’ve used various consumer Netgear, Asus, D-Link WiFi routers to various degrees of success and frustration. Between spotty signal, inconsistent speeds, and routers that would literally burn themselves up in an air conditioned room, I was pretty tired of consumer grade WiFi routers. When we moved into our new home last year, …
I was recently on the Defrag This Podcast with Adam Fowler discussing problems and solutions to shadow IT. Some items we discussed were related to how and why shadow IT pops up. One of my answers was related simply to IT staff turnover or being understaffed. I worked at a company that did a reduction …
This month marks the ten year anniversary of when I started my first and only help desk job at The Menninger Clinic. Ten years ago straight out of school, where I had worked in the university’s IT department, but we did not use any Microsoft products. Ten years ago, starting my first job, I didn’t …
This is a bit off topic for my blog, but none the less I want to put it out there.I have a Surface Pro 3 and I put Windows 10 on it when RTM was released. It is my personal opinion that that build of Windows 10 has been the best build and the quality …
I was recently tasked with re-mediating a ConfigMan issue for a client. The problem was that techs at our (Insight’s) Integration Labs, which are awesome by the way, could not image a machine with the clients Distribution Point in ConfigMan. They were getting error 0x8007002 in the Task Sequence, but there was literally no errors …