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  • I am a “Microsoft Certified IT Professional : Enterprise Administrator”

    Just earned my Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Enterprise Administrator (MCPIT:EA). Hopefully that, with my Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), makes me an attractive hire (not that I am looking right now)

  • Waking up a SCCM collection from vbscript.

    I wanted to wake up all the machines in a collection using a vbscript. I know that SCCM has this built in, but I could not get it working. To troubleshoot I figured I would write a script to get collection members, and then wake them via the command line with this tool: http://www.gammadyne.com/cmdline.htm#wol

  • SCCM “trickle” install.

    We wanted to deploy software to our environment via and assigned advertisement in SCCM, but we wanted to be able to install packages to a subset of a collection. If there is an issue the next day, the whole enterprise would not down. We already had a collection that identified machines that need the package,…

  • iPad app pricing?

    Just was reading this article. I couldn’t agree more with this statement. It costs equal or more to but the WSJ on the iPad? Compare the strategies and thinking. On the one hand we have a set of pricing models that deliver marginal value for premium prices and show very little that differentiate themselves from…

  • Laying on the couch blogging from my iPad

    Sweet!!!

  • Google Chrome for the Mac – Pin tab is back

    5.0.366.0 dev seems to have added pin tab back in. Let’s hope it stays. Thanks Mr. Google.

  • Powershell signing, makecert.exe and group policy – Part 2

    In the previous post I showed how to create self signed signing certs via the makecert tool. Once I made the pfx files, and signed my script, I need to make the server I was working see the certificate chain. I created a GPO and applied it to the server OU. I added the Root…

  • Powershell signing, makecert.exe and group policy – Part 1

    We don’t have a pki infrastructure at my current job, and I like to keep my powershell scripts on my network drive. So I needed a way to run my .ps1 files off a network drive. Setting Set-ExecutionPolciy to Unrestricted seemed like a bad idea. So I looked into using a signed script and setting…

  • New MD5 based backup script

    I found this use of md5 and find the other day. I based my current backup script around it. The md5 will show if anyone modifies a file, or adds/removes a file in the web hosting root (/var/www) or in the config directory (/etc/httpd/conf.d/). If there is a change then zip each site up individually…

  • PowerShell is great

    Okay, I drank the Kool-Aid. PowerShell is awesome. The first thing I wanted to do was make sure my $profile is always the most current no matter what machine was on. In the past I had a batch file that I would run that would open my command prompt the way I wanted. I modified…