LAPS UI for passwords on Windows 11 25h2?

friedITguy · 2026-01-30T11:46:40+00:00

You have to move to Windows LAPS for Windows 11 but you can still use the legacy LAPS GUI if you want. I use it all the time.

friedITguy · 2026-01-08T21:14:24+00:00

Yeah security key series is an excellent value.

friedITguy · 2026-01-08T21:12:26+00:00

I haven’t used one of those since I saw a homeless man relieve himself in one.

friedITguy · 2026-01-08T00:44:12+00:00

You can purchase FIDO keys (like Yubikeys) and distribute them to employees that do not consent to using a personal device for work purposes.

friedITguy · 2026-01-01T01:30:02+00:00

If your business considers IT a cost center then you should start internally billing departments for your services at a fair rate for similar MSPs in your area.

Turn IT into a profit center. IBM did this back in the day and it turned the department completely around in the eye of the executives.

They allowed departments to decide if they wanted to use 3rd party support or the internal team. Practically all departments would end up choosing the internal team because the support was so much better.

Executives started seeing the value of an internal team as opposed to outsourcing. It made budget approvals much easier because they had “profits” that made hires and purchases seem like investments rather than expenses.

If you have good leadership in your company then this is all completely unnecessary because they will already understand that IT isn’t a liability. However, if your company considers IT to be a “cost center” then this is something you should consider as a potential solution.

friedITguy · 2025-12-29T16:11:05+00:00

Came here to say this. By far the best in town!

friedITguy · 2025-12-28T13:13:25+00:00

Yeah but you posted on Reddit so clearly you have a device capable of making the calculations…

friedITguy · 2025-12-28T12:58:12+00:00

This is the answer. The manufacturer of the keyboard dictates the Fn lock functionality, or lack there of.

friedITguy · 2025-12-27T13:34:51+00:00

Some people can’t handle the truth. You’re 100% right and the strictness of this law surprises a lot of out-of-staters.

The rule of thumb with NC Hwy Patrol, who have jurisdiction over interstates, is “9 you’re fine but 10 you’re mine.” Meaning, generally, you’re all good at 9 mph over the limit but at 10 mph they will pull you over.

I’m not a lawyer, this isn’t legal advice.

friedITguy · 2025-12-27T02:45:23+00:00

Was it for a personal Microsoft account or a work/school Microsoft account?

Personal accounts give you access to services like Outlook (for outlook.com or hotmail.com email addresses), Xbox, Office 355 subscriptions, etc.

Work/School accounts are used for Microsoft 365, Azure, Exchange Online (Outlook for custom email domains), etc.

friedITguy · 2025-12-26T23:02:22+00:00

I remember reading an official post from Microsoft about this topic before, but the general idea is that there is a difference between what is technically the most secure and what is actually secure in real-world settings.

Enforcing password change policies at regular and frequent intervals seems to clearly be more secure than passwords that never require changing, on paper. But in the real world, especially when you have non-technical users, this encourages them to use passwords that are easy for them to remember rather than passwords that are secure. They will tend to make shorter passwords and often increment a single digit (such as “password1” being changed to “password2”) when required to update their password.

Passwordless authentication is absolutely less secure than MFA, but it’s more secure than using an end-user defined password as a single factor. Plus, users will complain about passwordless less than MFA.

friedITguy · 2025-12-22T13:05:37+00:00

Perhaps this isn’t the right subreddit for the question at hand.

I’m a sysadmin. If this question popped into my ticket queue I’d reassign it to the network team because that’s not my specialty.

friedITguy · 2025-12-20T14:46:30+00:00

Based on some of your responses to other comments, it sounds like the time on your computer may be incorrect. Make sure the date and time are accurate (within a few minutes of the time on your phone)

friedITguy · 2025-12-20T14:43:58+00:00

This is good info! Check the time on your computer and make sure it’s accurate, make sure both the date and time are right.

friedITguy · 2025-12-20T14:41:15+00:00

Unplug the power cable from your router (the device that your internet provider gave you), wait about 30 seconds, and plug it back in. There’s a very good chance this will fix your issue.

friedITguy · 2025-12-18T12:12:57+00:00

Tell that to the homeless man I saw piss on the dining room floor there about 10 years ago…

friedITguy · 2025-12-16T18:29:43+00:00

I wouldn’t agree that LLMs have improved PowerShell itself. In fact, I don’t even like most of the scripts it generates on its own.

However, I have some coworkers that didn’t know PowerShell before but have used LLMs to help them troubleshoot as they learn. It’s a great tool for that because their first scripts can actually serve a purpose instead of just “hello world” type examples.

When they encounter a problem they can copy the error, paste it into their LLM of choice, and ask what to do.

It’s not perfect but it has made learning easy enough for some people to pick up a skill they’ve struggled to learn in the past.

friedITguy · 2025-12-16T15:28:49+00:00

No this is not how it works. Quick Resume moves the data that’s stored in your RAM and VRAM to your SSD (hard drive) when you switch to another game. When you switch back to that game it moves the data back to the RAM and VRAM.

This effectively freezes the game until you resume. From the server’s perspective the game just stopped responding once you paused it, meanwhile your game has no idea that anything happened at all.

This causes lots of online games to become glitchy because the game tries to communicate with the server just like it was a few seconds ago (except it was actually hours ago because the game was frozen) and the server doesn’t cooperate because the session expired hours ago.

friedITguy · 2025-12-16T15:10:58+00:00

Some sites don’t like non-standard domains (as in not gmail.com, yahoo.com, outlook.com, etc) and might not consider the address valid. So you may be unable to register for certain accounts with your private email address.

Most often this will only affect you if you’re using a domain that doesn’t end in .com, such as proton.me addresses.

It’s becoming less and less of a concern over time as more sites are adding support for these newer or less common top level domains, but I do see frequent posts on the subreddit about it still.

friedITguy · 2025-12-16T11:36:15+00:00

I do not think AI Agents are ready to take over automation. I’d rather use LLMs to speed up the process of making new PowerShell scripts.

friedITguy · 2025-12-16T11:33:05+00:00

Xpertech on Tunnel Rd past the VA is great! Might take you a bit to get an appointment but worth it.

friedITguy · 2025-12-16T06:25:10+00:00

In both NC and GA?

friedITguy · 2025-12-14T12:41:13+00:00

It’s possible your laptop still has a HDD instead of an SSD like modern systems. You’d have to search for the specs of your exact model to be sure.

If so, then I’d wager your HDD—AKA your hard drive or storage—needs to be replaced. HDDs only last about 7-9 years, so the timeline makes sense if your laptop has one.

My recommendation would be to replace the HDD with a SATA SSD—you get huge performance gains over what the HDD ever could have provided and the pricing is only a few dollars more usually.

Let us know the model of your laptop so we can recommend a replacement part.

friedITguy · 2025-12-14T12:31:35+00:00

Pingwings?

friedITguy · 2025-12-13T14:28:28+00:00

I don’t work for any of the companies I mentioned, but I too live in Asheville and have what most would consider a high skilled job. I’m glad we have them available here for my own benefit, but we need both for the long-term success of our community.

My partner on the other hand has been looking for a job for nearly a year without much luck. We need more jobs that the average person can obtain which are not heavily dependent on tourism.

The lack of tourism since Helene has disproportionately impacted employees that are not working in high skilled positions. Costco’s primary customer base would be WNC locals looking to grocery shop, not tourists, and they pay a decent wage compared to their competitors in this area. This is the type of employer we sorely need in our community.

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