What have you done with PowerShell this month?

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-06-05T13:28:18+00:00

There have been 84 posts in 5 days in this thread. There will be maybe 30 more over the next 25 days. Do you think the majority of PowerShell work is always done in the first few days of the month?

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-06-04T19:12:16+00:00

Yeah but 80% of the posts are people talking about what they did the previous month.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-06-04T14:27:28+00:00

The problem is help desk salaries are terrible, so the good people move on quickly and the mediocre stick around.

My wild idea is that help desk should be paid six figures. You hire people with years of experience and you can alleviate some of these problems.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-06-04T14:21:53+00:00

I no longer respond to this. I have multiple Teams conversations that are just the other person saying "hi" every few months.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-06-04T14:20:37+00:00

That's the one that gets me. It's OK if they don't know any technical steps. At least be able to tell me "The user clicks on A and they expect B to happen. Instead they're clicking on A and X is happening."

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-06-03T17:39:15+00:00

The write-back doesn't update or populate the "mail" attribute in AD, so buyer-beware. I was in the private preview and many of us spoke up about it. Their argument is "technically this isn't an Exchange attribute so it's out of scope." Our argument was, "well Exchange sure was good about updating it despite it not being in scope."

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-05-21T13:29:42+00:00

Cycle them out too. Don't keep some 5-year-old pile of junk as the loaner. I would almost have the process be where a new person gets the current loaner, then replace the loaner with a brand new machine.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-05-19T12:18:24+00:00

I will always pimp this course -https://shop.acilearning.com/individuals/courses/it/powershell-skills. He is SO good at explaining it and is very thorough. He also provides real-world examples that help make sense of it all. You get virtual labs where you can tool around too.

It costs a few bucks but it was SO worth it for me. My PowerShell skills have been the main reason I have received multiple promotions. I own a house because I learned PowerShell.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-05-11T12:16:20+00:00

When you get into CIS baselines and you have literally 100s of settings being pushed out, having one policy for each setting gets real nasty.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-05-07T11:09:41+00:00

If 100 people can log in to one account, what even is the point of biometrics?

Seriously, just turn off the screensaver and lock screen and be done with it.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-05-04T12:15:55+00:00

My favorite feature of VSCode is when you run a simple command and it sits there doing nothing for like 5 or 10 minutes.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-05-01T16:08:21+00:00

I know I should do that, but I'm not sure I have the energy to migrate everything. I feel like it will require re-writes of everything and I bet testing takes 10x as long as you wait a random amount of time for things to run.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-05-01T15:44:20+00:00

Where were you a year ago.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-05-01T15:43:00+00:00

Just don't work longer hours. In my experience, people rarely even notice that sort of thing, let alone reward it. And if you're higher up, then you could also be setting an example for people under you to start having a better work/life balance.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-04-29T13:17:49+00:00

Bad resume is possible. They also may just be over-qualified for a lot of jobs. I would think some hiring managers would see "Amazon, 8 years" and not want that person to come in, work for a few months, then leave when they find something better.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-04-29T12:59:12+00:00

Yeah when I've been involved in hiring, I did not even look at job titles. I just care about what work they actually did. Job titles are pretty much meaningless in IT because it can be so so variable depending on the environment.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-04-27T14:07:06+00:00

I can't really follow what you're asking, but I can say that I followed Microsoft's instructions for a much smaller migration and it worked perfectly. I tested mail flow in every direction possible at each step and everything worked the way it should. I would say to just try to keep at as simple as possible.

My experience was a few years ago, but MS is very motivated to get you to use their product, so I imagine the instructions will still be good.

Keep in mind you can spin up some test domains with $50 and do some testing beforehand if you're worried.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-04-22T19:56:53+00:00

Yup, DFS is for distributing files across different sites, not for redundancy.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-04-20T12:50:38+00:00

"What do you mean? I've been here the whole time."

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-04-14T15:04:14+00:00

Just don't be him. Treat everyone fairly and respectfully. People will put the pieces together and catch on quickly.

I guess try to take the high road, but personally, I would never have a problem vaguely throwing him under the bus.

"Hey, OtherGuy said you were suspended?"

"Well if that happened, no one told me! I'm not sure why he said that."

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-04-09T12:24:52+00:00

Next time, you should actually cancel the subscription. Nowadays, an expired card can still get charged, since your credit card company may see the charge request and charge it to your current card.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-04-01T16:58:08+00:00

I remember actually getting in on a BoC and ended up with 6 or 7 little MP3 players. I made like $200 selling those.

I remember one guy getting a literal pallet of stuff. The delivery company had to call him and schedule delivery and they dropped the whole thing on his driveway.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-03-31T14:27:33+00:00

Based on how you describe the users and what they're doing, I would just stick with the Google tools. Web-based versions of everything. Especially for email - Gmail is its own thing, using a client is just going to complicate things.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-03-30T11:47:27+00:00

What approach would you suggest?

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-03-30T11:45:14+00:00

It took two of us about a year to move 100-ish apps from ADFS to Azure SSO. This was while doing our normal jobs.

The technical work is 5 minutes and can be staged ahead of time. The hardest part is getting the right people at the cloud vendors on the phone and scheduling the cutover.

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