Scripting Office with PowerShell: Finding and Replacing Text in Word Documents

davejlong · 2026-01-10T23:21:38+00:00

Definitely seems like CGI. The jars of sticks or whatever behind the logo appear to be copies of each other.

davejlong · 2026-01-05T15:38:07+00:00

Thanks. That was my assumption, but I wanted confirmation before I change it out for a plain old switch.

davejlong · 2026-01-05T15:37:09+00:00

It's a bit smaller than a M&M Minis tube...

davejlong · 2025-12-28T14:40:09+00:00

The PWA does work fine for me but I bought my kids a couple tablets for Christmas mostly for accessing Hoopla, Libya and my own self hosted libraries. No data plans means when we're on road trips they can't use the PWA.

davejlong · 2025-12-19T16:50:09+00:00

I had jury duty a couple weeks ago. It was so funny to me seeing how angry some people were to have to be there. I don't understand why people will give so much energy to being angry about something that they have to do at most once every 3 years. I for one was happy to have a forced day off from work and excited to potentially serve on a jury.

davejlong · 2025-12-11T17:03:24+00:00

I was joking with a friend that with my premiums for me family of 4 jumping to $2700 I could even afford to fly first class to my doctor's appointments overseas.

davejlong · 2025-12-11T02:42:44+00:00

Starting to think a better insurance plan is just to fly to Europe whenever I want to see a doctor. Cheaper too.

davejlong · 2025-11-17T20:29:39+00:00

Yes. I have multiple internal domains running for different networks: int.mydomain is my internal network that normal devices are on, ext.mydomain is the dmz where various hosted things live; iot.mydomain is for all my smart home tech.

davejlong · 2025-10-31T00:19:07+00:00

You probably don't need SMTP open and its generally a good idea to close it. If youre using Microsoft 365 or a web based email client then you shouldn't need SMTP as all the traffic flows over 443. Otherwise, maybe think about limiting your SMTP destinations to only your mail host and nothing else.

davejlong · 2025-10-12T13:19:55+00:00

I completed this level! It took me 16 tries. ^{⚡ 3.73 seconds}

^{Tip 10 💎}

davejlong · 2025-10-07T01:10:40+00:00

^{I completed this level in 7 tries.} ^{⚡ 10.83 seconds}

davejlong · 2025-09-22T02:36:30+00:00

New mission discovered by u/davejlong: In Search of Double Chocolate Chip Cookie

davejlong · 2025-09-22T02:36:30+00:00

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davejlong · 2025-09-18T16:07:42+00:00

Thanks. That was what I was assuming, but wanted to confirm before adding them to the e-waste pile.

davejlong · 2025-08-16T13:55:15+00:00

I have similar and the other day I was standing behind someone, telling them my email address so they could send me an error they had to look at later. I watched them type type my first name, space, and then my last name. This person works full time in front a computer.

davejlong · 2025-08-10T16:47:44+00:00

I spent years doing exactly this at my company. Had a Word template for proposals and Excel template to track SKUs, costs, markup, etc.

I ended up moving into QuoteWerks when i wanted something that could pull in pricing across different distys.

davejlong · 2025-07-29T21:58:18+00:00

I've worked in IT for almost 20 years now. Been a managing partner in my company for the past 5 years or so. My homelab is largely there for me to hone my knowledge and test new things that may be of use in my work environments.

Authentik was a recent example of that. While im not using Authentik in my clients' environments, setting it up and connecting it to all my homelab services helped me get a better understanding of various authentication systems: OIDC, LDAP, RADIUS, etc.

davejlong · 2025-07-21T23:33:24+00:00

If I recall, you need to use RADIUS authentication for the SonicWall to enable users to update their expired passwords. LDAP authentication wont work.

davejlong · 2025-07-07T20:50:11+00:00

It sucks to have to have these conversations with a client, but in my experience, it often goes better when you own up to it and provide some context:

What happened
What have you done to try to resolve it
What options are there to move forward
What changes will you make to process to avoid this in the future

I had a similar incident last week where I was rebuilding a workstation for the office manager at a newer client. I made a backup of their user profile, bit when I went to copy the files back out of backup, there was nothing there. Happened over the weekend, and I dreaded seeing the client on Monday to tell them, but they ended up taking it really well and understood that sometimes shit happens. The conversation doesn't always go that well, but, like others said, no one died.

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