Tips & Tricks
v_GS_NETWORK_ADAPTER_CONFIGURATION verse v_Network_DATA_Serialized
While working on my article What is Parsename and 4 Part Version String?, I was looking at my IP address of many of my system and notice that they have both IP v4 and IP v6 address. This is NOT generally a problem as I almost never include IP address in a report, but...
What Is Parsename and 4 Part Version String?
In my article from last week, What Is A 4-Part Version Numbers? I showed you how Add Remove Program (ARP) versions are actually a string and not a number, like most people think it is. But how can you query the 3rd octet of a version string, if the math function don’t...
What is a 4-part version numbers?
The problem of querying 4-part version numbers has long been a problem. I have seen many solutions, but none are 100% fool proof, until now. But what is a 4-part version numbers? This article will go into details to explain 4-part version numbers and how SQL Server...
What is RDCM?
As a Microsoft Configuration Manager (SCCM / ConfigMgr / MCM) admin, I spend my time switching between differ servers. Over the years, I have come to LOVE Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCM), which is one of the Sysinternals tools! Recently I was showing a team...
How to Code Sign PowerShell
There is a very long story about PowerShell, ConfigMgr, Jeffrey Snover, and me. The short version is that story is that I’m getting to use PowerShell to its fullest now. In today world, a Microsoft Configuration Manager (SCCM / ConfigMgr / MCM) administrator must...
How to Create a Code Signing Certificate
Where to start with this article. As a Microsoft Configuration Manager (SCCM / ConfigMgr / MCM) administrator we wear many hats. Working with Certificates is just one of the hats! We all know that we can make our environment more secure by leveraging Certs for things...
A Beginner’s Guide to Using Graph Explorer for Intune Data Validation
These days I’m working on a lot with Intune and finding way to expose more data from it. One of the simple ways to review the details stored within Intune, before you create a report is to use Graph Explorer. They use Graph Explorer before writing your reports? The...
A Beginner’s Guide to Using Graph Explorer for Intune Data Validation
These days I’m working on a lot with Intune and finding way to expose more data from it. One of the simple ways to review the details stored within Intune, before you create a report is to use Graph Explorer. They use Graph Explorer before writing your reports? The...
How to Determine your Microsoft Entra ID Tenant ID?
This is one of those things that you need every once and a while but never seems to be at hand when you need it. You gloss over Microsoft Entra id tenant id every time you see it until you actually need it, then you can “never” find it. I always love when I search for...
ConfigMgr Health Services in the Cloud: A Comprehensive Setup Tutorial
I had this unbelievable idea of moving ConfigMgr Health Services in the Cloud instead of having it on-prem. This is just phase one of a long list of things I’m trying to work out with the ConfigMgr Health script. Now when I say in the cloud, I don’t mean Azure or AWS....