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Recent Tech-related Blog Posts:

Posted on March 10, 2025Read time: 9 minutes

In the first post of this short series, I wrote about using the Deployment Researc

Posted on March 3, 2025Read time: 9 minutes

I've been a proponent of a dev/test CM (or just client device) lab environment for a long time.

Posted on February 3, 2025Read time: 5 minutes

Last summer, Let's Encrypt announced their intent to end their OCSP service, and this was formalized in December with key dates related to the change.

Posted on January 13, 2025Read time: 5 minutes

A couple times a year I do some spot checking and a little manual cleanup in AD. This is triggerd by inventory/asset management analysis. I say "spot checking" because by and large the existing business processes and automations take care of the vast majority of changes, but for a couple of reasons there are always a few stragglers.

Posted on December 16, 2024Read time: 3 minutes

A project cropped up recently that required editing a number of disparate Group Policies in our environment due to a network share path change.

I was originally given a list of GPOs that were (somehow) identified as in scope for change; however, I knew immediately the list was incomplete and omitted some valid matches. So I was left with a choice:

Posted on November 18, 2024Read time: 8 minutes

The last two posts were inspired by conversations at MMS Flamingo and focus on using Slack as the communication/receiver for notices relayed from a Task Sequence step

Posted on October 28, 2024Read time: 8 minutes

A number of years ago I started having my primary OSD Task Sequences "check in" as one of their last steps. Specifically check in with key information so I can follow up as necessary ("trust but verify") with downstream actions to ensure our asset management systems are properly updated.

Posted on September 16, 2024Read time: 4 minutes

After spending much of the month of August on a European vacation, I'm back and preparing for my sessions at MMS Flamingo Edition coming up in October.