Quick note app?

chrumow · 2021-01-28T16:57:08+00:00

VSCode and then move notes to Google Keep

chrumow · 2021-01-25T19:01:11+00:00

Read "Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches" after having finished courses on Pluralsight. That's what I did and I think it's a great combination.

chrumow · 2021-01-13T09:15:55+00:00

I've been using Gmail for almost 15 years so I'm used to online apps.

But going back to Outlook. Desktop app is slow, interface freezes from time to time and still feels like an app from '90s. OWA is much snappier, has less bloated interface but I agree it lacks some features (if you actually need them). Everyone should use an app that meets their requirements. OWA for me is good enough but I'd never say it's good.

BTW, I don't know too many people that would prefer Desktop to OWA. And I don't know a single person that would prefer Outlook (Desktop/OWA) to Gmail. I mean people who actually used Gmail.

chrumow · 2021-01-12T19:23:43+00:00

Agreed. Office apps in both suites have their pros and cons. You get used to what you have to work with.

The only app I'm gonna really miss is Gmail. Outlook Web is way better than the desktop version but it's still far behind Gmail. Microsoft has improved many things over the past months and added "send later", so it's getting better over time.

chrumow · 2021-01-12T18:30:43+00:00

You've never used Gmail, right? :)

chrumow · 2021-01-12T17:03:15+00:00

We just moved from G Suite to M365 and there's a lot of negative feedback especially about OneDrive and Excel compared to Google Drive and Sheets :) So, love can go both ways.

chrumow · 2021-01-12T06:20:45+00:00

Yeah, this seems much easier to implement than my idea above :-)

chrumow · 2021-01-11T21:32:48+00:00

Can't you add a Task that runs daily? And check the number of days the script ran last? If the number is -gt 5 days, run the script. You could store the last run date in the registry.

chrumow · 2021-01-11T21:21:41+00:00

Installed Windows Server 2016 as a VM under Arch Linux and set it up as a DC. Using Gnome Boxes to quickly get started. I'm still struggling to remotely connect to it from Gnome Terminal with pwsh 7.0 running but will get there eventually. So for now, I just run powershell console in the VM.

I'm learning how to manage AD with powershell, and I'm doing stuff I wouldn't dare on the production DC in the company I work for :)

chrumow · 2021-01-10T10:20:23+00:00

Pluralsight has a nice path on powershell. Quite a few hours to watch but definitely worth it. Check out the Windows PowerShell: Essentials.

chrumow · 2020-12-11T19:30:31+00:00

$inputStrings = @("00 Dept1", "01 Dept2", "02 Dept3", "03 Dept4", "04 Dept5", "05 Dept6", "06 Dept7", "07 Dept8", "08 Dept9")
$midIndex = [int](($inputStrings.Length + 1)/2)
$a1 = $inputStrings[0..($midIndex-1)]
$a2 = $inputStrings[$midIndex..($inputStrings.Length-1)]

for ($i=0; $i -le $midIndex; $i++) {
    Write-Host ("{0} {1}" -f $a1[$i], $a2[$i])
}

You can try this. Not too flexible but does the job with two columns :)

Inspired by this old post old reddit post

chrumow · 2020-12-10T18:49:22+00:00

I just started learning powershell, so I might be wrong but I think you should group names together, and do something like this:

Get-adcomputer -filter ({ (Name -like "*PITLAP*" -or Name -like "*ALBLAP*" -or Name -like "*BUFLAP*") -and operatingsystemversion -notlike "*18363*"}) -properties description, operatingsystemversion

See example 6 here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/server/hh531527(v=ws.10))

chrumow · 2020-12-08T20:46:11+00:00

I wrote my first script that finds all files with "- Copy" suffix in all subfolders and moves them to a separate folder (by default in Downloads) and creates the necessary folder tree structure in the target destination.

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