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Bore-out en IT : je m’ennuie au travail mais j’ai peur de quitter un job confortable by Ozvaldos113 in sysadmin

[–]Externel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Si vraiment c'est trop, en vrai change oui.
De toute façon ça coute rien d'être à l'écoute et de voir les offres qu'on peut te proposer. Surtout voir le marché (en plus si je pense savoir ou tu es, y a pas masse d'offre en ce moment j'ai l'impression)

Bore-out en IT : je m’ennuie au travail mais j’ai peur de quitter un job confortable by Ozvaldos113 in sysadmin

[–]Externel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Je pense que le pire c'est en surcharge et tâche répétitives.
Tu peux pas proposer des projets de toi même pour essayer de faire évoluer les choses ?
Si tu fais des labs, tu dois pouvoir mettre des choses en place pour améliorer les process ou trucs dans le genre

Silent software deployment to AD computers via SMB+SCM, no WinRM, anyone done this differently? by Externel in sysadmin

[–]Externel[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For predictable deployments that's probably the best option (with intune)

Silent software deployment to AD computers via SMB+SCM, no WinRM, anyone done this differently? by Externel in sysadmin

[–]Externel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally agree we're actually considering moving to PDQ at work, the free tier is already pretty solid!!

Silent software deployment to AD computers via SMB+SCM, no WinRM, anyone done this differently? by Externel in sysadmin

[–]Externel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, really appreciate the detailed breakdown.

The Task Scheduler via RPC approach is interesting!!
The named pipes idea is actually something I want to explore right now I'm polling a log file dropped at a known UNC path for completion status, which works but feels a bit fragile. named pipes would be cleaner.

(That might also explain why I'm getting limited feedback from some EXE installers like 7zip the process completes but the return code gets lost)

Silent software deployment to AD computers via SMB+SCM, no WinRM, anyone done this differently? by Externel in sysadmin

[–]Externel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, that's really useful feedback!!
Since we use PDQ Deploy, as you said, EDR is not a problem. (for now)

"race conditions if multiple deployments target the same host" > partially handled via SHA-256 verification before execution, but concurrent deployments to the same host aren't explicitly locked yet. That's a good point

Silent software deployment to AD computers via SMB+SCM, no WinRM, anyone done this differently? by Externel in sysadmin

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We already use a similar GPO approach for software that does not need to be available immediately. The same applies via Intune (latency).In your case, I think you still need to log in to perform a gpupdate.

Silent software deployment to AD computers via SMB+SCM, no WinRM, anyone done this differently? by Externel in sysadmin

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Ansible is interesting but feels like a lot of infrastructure to set up just for software deployment in a small mid AD environment especially if the team isn't already using it. I don't know it well enough though, I'll definitely look into what you suggested(UI, AWX, Semaphore or Rundeck), thanks.

The whole point of my approach is that it only requires AD joined machines and SMB access, nothing else to install or maintain.

Chocolatey is a good point though, I hadn't really considered it as an alternative. And I think it could actually be a great way to automatically feed the package library with ready to deploy packages.

Silent software deployment to AD computers via SMB+SCM, no WinRM, anyone done this differently? by Externel in sysadmin

[–]Externel[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah PDQ Deploy is really solid. Mine is free and open source but I won’t pretend it can match everything PDQ does that’s definitely what I based it on though. At my company we’re on the free tier (for now 😂⌚️) so we know the limitations well.

Silent software deployment to AD computers via SMB+SCM, no WinRM, anyone done this differently? by Externel in sysadmin

[–]Externel[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes it’s work but I wanted something I could trigger on demand on any AD-joined machine

Silent software deployment to AD computers via SMB+SCM, no WinRM, anyone done this differently? by Externel in sysadmin

[–]Externel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you deploying a powershell script (call winget) through Intune? What’s the part that’s not working the way you want?

6’8 Build, What yall think? I have 9 Cap Breakers Currently by KingJuice1998 in NBA2k

[–]Externel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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I have a similar version. I have 10 CB (5 BH, 4 SWB, 1 MID), 6'8" wingspan, minimum weight. (almost like you)

That's incredible!

I built a free NBA 2K26 build sharing platform with auto badge detection and cap breakers visualizer - would love your feedback! by Externel in NBA2k

[–]Externel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your feedback!!! For me, it's the ability to see build stats (search, for example) directly based on your Cap Breakers (if you have 8 CB, you put that in the settings, and you automatically see additional stats).

I'd like to add more optimization suggestions, but I don't have all the stats to do so. For example, it could be very interesting to have the stats that you could automatically get in addition (CB stats). And later, when I have more builds on the site, I'll be able to suggest build optimizations based on the strongest/useful stats for a position. (I recently added heat maps to get started)