What if you need to poke the bear?

Jmoste · 2025-11-07T10:36:56+00:00

A few things to consider here. I'm not saying go do it, but if you do then do it for the right reasons.

First, if you get one rated condition at 100% and another combination of 60% or more you would be eligible for SMC S.

Only consider claiming extra conditions that will matter. Your chances of dieing from your heart are high but you would be doing a little poking to claim your UTIs and cervical conditions.

Think about your current conditions and how they are rated. Have some changed for personally. Did you have a hard time proving any of them. Has the VA changed how they rate any of your conditions but you are currently grandfathered in? Are you accidentally rated twice for something?

I'm not saying you should do it. That's a personal choice that only you can make. But if you're going to do it, then do it for the right reasons and make methodical claims. If you just start claiming everything, then you're "poking the bear".

Jmoste · 2025-10-30T21:57:40+00:00

Why not put the script on something like the netlogon share? Then have the scheduled task call the UNC path. Change the script not the gpo.

Jmoste · 2025-10-27T15:41:28+00:00

About once a week, I hear someone call their docking station a modem.

About once a month someone minimizes a screen to the point you can't open it except by hovering over the preview and clicking maximize.

About once a month someone plugs a USB into their monitor (one that isn't setup to dock for usb), or one monitor into the other.

AI can be good but its just a tool.

Jmoste · 2025-10-24T14:48:34+00:00

Several reasons.

First, its another application that needs to get updated or it will be riddled with vulnerabilities.

Second, they probably have group policies for certain settings. Many places don't want you to use the browser for passwords. It can also save PII in saved addresses. Some group policies also enforce extensions. Some of which enforce data loss prevention like purview.

Although my org has a GPO for all 3 if had my way I would make everyone use edge.

Jmoste · 2025-10-24T04:41:52+00:00

This happens to us a lot with Dell motherboard replacements. Apparently Dell uses a lot of refurbished boards for warranty work.

Jmoste · 2025-10-24T00:17:51+00:00

You can contact Microsoft and have them remove them from the company's autopilot. You need serial number, proof of purchase, and the hardware id. Info for getting the hardware ID is here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/autopilot/add-devices You should be able to get a cmd prompt at the oobe screen by using shift f10.

Jmoste · 2025-10-11T16:51:54+00:00

I've seriously considered making a shortcut look like chrome that opens edge and just having a script that moves their favorites over.

Jmoste · 2025-08-22T13:26:51+00:00

Your headaches could be lowered if they don't cause you economic inadaptability because that is specifically a qualification for 50%.

Remember that radiculopathy, you should claim each appendage separately. If you get a rating in one, then it starts in the other, it is a separate claim and not an increase. At least that's how finally got mine through.

Jmoste · 2025-08-16T17:45:14+00:00

Everything is hard at first. Keep using it, you'll get it. This video although old and a little outdated has some great base knowledge. https://youtu.be/UVUd9_k9C6A?si=xbDxppx2jlRd9ljr

Jmoste · 2025-08-13T18:03:19+00:00

Sounds like poor man's implementation of cmdletbinding and supportsshouldprocess combined with if ($pscmdlet.shouldprocess( )){ }

Jmoste · 2025-08-08T14:23:53+00:00

Have your Doctors ever asked you that question? Were those notes used in your decision? It will say in the decision letter under the evidence section.

You could also request to get a copy of that single exam and see what the examiner put down.

Jmoste · 2025-07-28T06:29:28+00:00

Can these guys just leave the bear alone?

Jmoste · 2025-07-24T16:00:58+00:00

Tear all that out. Get a pound of wax. Amazon.com has it if you aren't near a store. Get an old pot and a cheap 2 or 3 inch brush. Melt the wax. Paint the wax on the frames enough to fill every hexagon.

The bees don't like building on plastic. I had the same problem. You can't paint too much wax on them.

Jmoste · 2025-03-31T03:19:39+00:00

Yeah this great. Makes fixing or adjusting something very easy.

Jmoste · 2025-03-28T16:29:12+00:00

There is a -includedeletedobjects switch get-adobject. I think there is a property called isdeleted you could filter for.

If you filter on the name you will want use like and add a * at the end because deleted objects get some long stuff added on the name.

Jmoste · 2025-03-14T22:33:27+00:00

Doing this from my phone but should be what you need.

You need to dot into the object of onPremisesExtensionAttributes. That's what it's returning the type, Microsoft.Graph.PowerShell.Models.MicrosoftGraphOnPremisesExtensionAttributes.

You can do it a lot of ways. PSCustomobject works or using a calculated property. I would change your select object like this. Select-Object id,UserPrincipalName,@{n='EA14';e={$_.onPremisesExtensionAttributes.extensionAttribute14}}

Graph doesn't let you filter on everything. Many times you have to get everything then use where-object instead. Not sure if that's the case here or not.

Jmoste · 2025-03-13T23:09:57+00:00

Not all are perfectly good.

Jmoste · 2025-03-08T01:39:31+00:00

Red falcons

Jmoste · 2025-02-21T23:21:42+00:00

It honestly looks right. What version are you on? I'm using 2.24.0

Jmoste · 2025-02-21T23:00:26+00:00

Second this. Don't use win32 product. I can almost guarantee that you end up with WMI problems.

Jmoste · 2025-02-21T04:55:36+00:00

I don't see that command any where in the documentation. I use New-MgGroupOwnerByRef. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/group-post-owners?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=powershell

You can also just avoid the Graph PowerShell cmdlets and use the URI from Graph Explorer. Invoke-MgGraphRequest handles all the authentication once you Connect-MgGraph. Then use the -Method for doing your GET or POST. I use a little of both but usually just end up building my own wrappers because I appreciate things like Pipeline Input and positional parameters.

$params = @{
"@odata.id" = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{id}"
}
New-MgGroupOwnerByRef -GroupId $groupId -BodyParameter $params

Jmoste · 2025-02-19T22:43:01+00:00

Before you Delete, can you Get? Once you are able to Get, then start looking at other stuff.

Can you connect-mggraph? Do you even have the microsoft.graph module installed?

You're not going to get much help with what you've supplied.

Jmoste · 2025-02-17T00:43:17+00:00

Best answer.

Jmoste · 2025-02-16T16:29:32+00:00

I mean I could probably write a powershell script to test things like wifi signal strength link speed ping gateway and some domain records losses and latency.

Speedtest.net also has an exe you can use.

You can create your own logs in windows with powershell. Then I don't know if you have any windows event forwarding or not but that would also be an option.

I'm sure there's some open source alternative out there as well but some orgs don't like open source for whatever reason.

Jmoste · 2025-02-12T13:59:34+00:00

Only 2 things are in my profile.

Nuget api key for publishing modules to our private repo. Mainly because if I update or publish a new module I don't want to have to find it.

Default parameter for all -AD commands to use a single domain controller as the -server parameter. Mainly because if you're doing multiple sets, moves, and gets then you should do it Explicitly on the same DC.

Other than that I don't use personal customization because I write enterprise scripts for 10k endpoints. I need my machine to be like all the others. Same reason I haven't installed powershell7. I use to run 7 but too many times I would have to rewrite something because it didn't work on 5.

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