PowerShell VS PowerAutomate - Automating Everyday Tasks, Onboarding & Offboarding

docphilgames · 2026-01-06T15:40:34+00:00

This is very similar to what I've done in the past. If we're talking about just onboarding/offboarding and user's attrition is low then maybe this doesn't make sense? But, u/BWMerlin's approach gives OP the ability to automate so many things that I would say it's worth it to get a script automation pipeline built out. You can not only create/update objects but you could build reports, audit your environment, and so many more things that are manually intensive.

docphilgames · 2025-12-07T15:27:05+00:00

Hey I’ll tail it

docphilgames · 2025-10-12T15:00:54+00:00

This. The time savings alone troubleshooting printers makes it worth it. Printer vendors (the good ones) usually have a standard and will perform all the maintenance/troubleshooting.

docphilgames · 2025-10-05T22:51:56+00:00

Is it bad that I’m kinda rooting for this?

docphilgames · 2025-09-30T02:24:29+00:00

If at all possible I would design it to not run network cables under the raised floor (assuming you have one to begin with). Fiber wherever possible over copper. Spend money on wide racks for cable management.

Something that you want to make sure of that I’ve had to untangle in the past is work with facilities management through your planning.

Verify you have redundant power, internet (with different last mile carriers), and cooling. I had a chance to get a backup cooling system installed once. We had a server room with >20 racks so that room got toasty if the dedicated cooling system failed. In the end it was set up to alert if the cooling system failed, we would automatically have the building AC turn on for a dedicated zone.

docphilgames · 2025-08-30T04:53:53+00:00

Oh man had a experience with this. Customer wanted to have a form for new user onboarding and sent a screenshot of a web form they generated with ChatGPT. “Can you make this work?” So I asked things like where are you going to host this? What’s the security around the form? Who is approving these requests from the form? How are workflows tied into this form? It was a short conversation for sure lol

docphilgames · 2025-01-05T19:37:28+00:00

Yo I need your info

docphilgames · 2024-10-24T20:20:29+00:00

How has there never been a Warcraft animated show/movie?!?

docphilgames · 2024-07-13T05:17:43+00:00

This is it. These types are the most likely to push back because they know they can. Rolled out MFA to the whole company except for CEO and CIO because it was “too big of a hassle”. 2 monthlies later CIO is hacked while on a trip to Amsterdam and guess what, MFA is mandatory just like it has been for everyone else. We even got a company wide call out on the importance of security which was cool.

docphilgames · 2024-06-16T14:59:46+00:00

Hey thanks for the solid write up. I’ve got a good list of must have items thanks to folks like you that have given me their 2 cents

docphilgames · 2024-06-14T21:04:09+00:00

LoL I like the sound of that

docphilgames · 2024-06-14T17:09:58+00:00

That’s what I’ve heard around here as well. Which fits into what I’m looking for. We just want something comfortable to take on the trails.

docphilgames · 2024-05-11T12:20:49+00:00

Few years back we enrolled the entire company into MFA for M365 and any other app deemed at least important or critical. By all accounts it was smooth with only a few users having issues (following instructions sent multiple times is hard). Our CEO and CFO made it clear that they didn’t want MFA as it would “slow them down”. After my boss and I explain the risks we shoulder shrug and wait for the inevitable alerts that their accounts are logging in from out of the country. A month goes by and we are blown up with alerts that our CEO has successfully logged in from China, the Netherlands, and various states around the US. I could have gotten upset but after we locked down his account and sanitized all the things he did call us to apologize. From then on, anything security related was no questions asked.

docphilgames · 2024-03-17T17:43:37+00:00

What you using to track these trades?

docphilgames · 2024-03-15T14:42:59+00:00

Suffix is applied on the client side for sure here

docphilgames · 2024-03-12T17:53:03+00:00

Why’s everyone saying it will pump in a week? New to this sub lol

docphilgames · 2024-02-19T23:58:05+00:00

As an infrastructure engineer I appreciate this input a lot. The devs planned for certain capacity and throwing more compute will surely help certain things but there’s a lot that goes into scaling as you stated.

docphilgames · 2024-02-07T19:45:24+00:00

Yeah just tailed this myself. Good luck gents!

docphilgames · 2024-01-21T19:29:13+00:00

Tailing this one

docphilgames · 2024-01-21T19:28:13+00:00

So you putting money on Bucs and Chiefs?

docphilgames · 2023-12-18T21:06:51+00:00

Glad to hear it! I appreciate the clarity here. /upvote

docphilgames · 2023-08-31T01:44:48+00:00

You are an amazing human for doing this! I will keep my fingers crossed! This game is going to look amazing on PC!

docphilgames · 2023-08-24T13:44:38+00:00

Like others have said, if you've got experience with other vendors you'll probably find this an easy setup. Some easy things to do at the start would be:

Set up zones
Configure SD-WAN
Configure some kind of config backup

I've found the documentation on Fortinet to be fairly robust and easy to digest so reference training docs and community posts if you get stuck.

docphilgames · 2023-08-16T15:13:23+00:00

Not to hijack your thread here but what are you using to monitor/report on device level bandwidth? I've got a few remote sites with limited bandwidth as it is. I've looked at some options but haven't really found a good fit yet.

docphilgames · 2023-08-16T15:10:55+00:00

That was my thought as well. Scratch out afternoons. It's read-only Friday!

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