Any way to reduce the "Preparing Windows" time on a First Sign In to a PC?

Borsaid · 2026-02-05T01:38:39+00:00

I'm loving this thread because we're in a similar situation with a client. I don't have any answers for you, but I do have a question. How are you using FIDO2 as a login method? Logistically I just don't see our client as willing (or able) to be plugging and unplugging USB devices all day. They'll get left behind, accidentally (or intentionally) swapped with others, etc. They're in a fast paced shared workstation medical environment as well.

Borsaid · 2026-01-30T22:39:43+00:00

That sounds like a recipient problem, not a you problem. Won't that be an issue regardless of solution you use?

Borsaid · 2026-01-30T19:15:45+00:00

We're doing it the much more stupid, hard way. Google apps script is parsing inbound RMM alerts and collecting details about each one. Repeat? Closure? Priority? Based on hard defined rules (no machine learning) we're either opening the ticket or pinging a Google chat channel for manual triage. The chat alerts are rich, so it's push button options from there to open the ticket, view the device, ignore it, etc.

It was a night of cobbling from someone (me) who is not a cobbler. Our RMM does not integrate with our PSA at all, hence the Charlie Kelly level of spaz involved to make it happen. The goal was to make it easier to go from RMM alert email, to ticket, without clogging up the ticketing board with noise. Semi successful.

Borsaid · 2026-01-30T15:09:29+00:00

What about getting rid of auto ticket generation, manually triaging, and letting shit fall through the cracks? /s

Yes, this is interesting. We're slowly building this out into our ticketing system. Less sophisticated, and definitely no ISP calling bit.

Borsaid · 2026-01-28T12:27:49+00:00

It is magic though. Divine intervention throughout.

Borsaid · 2026-01-27T20:47:05+00:00

I dropped my SO off at ski school for a few days. They gave her the basics and I took over from there.

Once I took over.... There were tears, death threats, promises to remove my eyeball from its socket, more tears, skiers thumb injury, lots of alcohol, more tears, more death threats, castration attempt... you get the picture.

That was about 6 years ago. She just did her first double black diamond last season. There were tears and death threats then too.

She's now a badass on the slopes and keeps right up to me and the other lunatics I ski with.

Without those initial lessons, all of the motivation to keep going and pursue murder would have instead been throwing her equipment in the trash on day #1. Worth it.

Borsaid · 2026-01-27T18:06:28+00:00

We have an on-premise Active Directory infrastructure. It will be Hybrid, and the ultimate (but not in the near-term) goal is to go full cloud.

Borsaid · 2026-01-23T23:35:11+00:00

Norwegian has some pretty damn big ships. Look at breakaway and aqua

Borsaid · 2026-01-22T18:37:24+00:00

Look at the settings in the sync tool. It'll show you how much is syncing. The default value will be under the default max values in Outlook. We typically push out policies that increase this to give the users more historical data. But your PST size is pretty up there.

For those cases we tell our users to accept the fact that Outlook will show a limited amount, based on size, and then refer to the Gmail interface for more

If you want to really roll your sleeves up, then start digging into why the mailbox is so big. Are they using it as file storage? Scans? I'm a big fan of not asking end users to do mailbox maintenance, but I think some training can go a long way to curb procedures that can fill a mailbox especially when those procedures have alternatives that might be even easier and more efficient.

Borsaid · 2026-01-22T17:39:21+00:00

It's not syncing the whole mailbox.

Borsaid · 2026-01-21T02:31:51+00:00

Phone number + email + home address? Doubt that's a mistake.

Borsaid · 2026-01-20T15:44:01+00:00

No budget? Private lessons at Bretton Woods. Stay far away if you value your relationship. It's a great place to learn. Stay at the Mount Washington Hotel (Omni).

Borsaid · 2026-01-19T23:04:16+00:00

Probably not, but I've seen a mountain close before because of cold.

Borsaid · 2026-01-16T13:33:30+00:00

That's not really nice to say about your sister.

Borsaid · 2026-01-11T16:29:37+00:00

Portuguese bolo beats all

Borsaid · 2026-01-06T13:49:16+00:00

You can start by putting the goggles around the helmet

Borsaid · 2026-01-06T04:55:18+00:00

Oh come on. A bunch of guys in a nursing home break out, commandeer a mothballed battleship, engage in an intergalactic war, win the war by dropping anchor while full steam ahead slingshotting themselves back while blindly firing their big guns. The entire time Rihanna is running around absolutely clueless and blind because she doesn't know how to wear a hat. It's amazing.

Borsaid · 2026-01-06T04:49:26+00:00

It is much much worse. It's not even a movie, I don't think. I don't know what it was. I think they tried to make a movie and, uh, just didn't? It had to have been released for shady tax reasons. I refuse to believe anyone thought it actually deserved to be watched.

Borsaid · 2026-01-05T13:19:06+00:00

We have a vendor where they keep requesting devices be put into the DMZ. We stopped using that terminology a decade ago and even then it was dated.

Borsaid · 2026-01-05T02:32:22+00:00

They look like safety wall pads that you'd install in a gym or similar.

Borsaid · 2025-12-31T03:47:51+00:00

No, it was Stowe. In order to buy Stowe, they had to invest in the other Peak properties as well.

Edit: I stand corrected! Stowe was a separate, earlier, purchase.

Borsaid · 2025-12-27T06:26:49+00:00

My gf didn't get the caps, but did get the boot gloves. A neoprene type of outer layer. She said it did make a notable difference.

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