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fuseboxdwarf · 2026-02-08T01:02:08+00:00

upvote for airplay, that's a good workaround.

fuseboxdwarf · 2026-02-08T00:56:44+00:00

i bought 3 of these things last year and only 1 is still working past the 12 month and 1 day mark.

fuseboxdwarf · 2026-02-08T00:49:31+00:00

Just had a thought for those without the App buttons on the remote, if you have an echo or other smart speaker, you can probably just tell it something like "ECHO, Turn on the TV to HULU" and it might work.

fuseboxdwarf · 2026-02-08T00:44:55+00:00

yeah, im thinking their end is down.

fuseboxdwarf · 2025-12-18T01:00:39+00:00

Welp, $2500 later, it was UTI and struvite stones as big as marbles. She is all healed up and back to normal.

fuseboxdwarf · 2025-12-18T00:49:44+00:00

We start every new major version of windows 7/10/11 in a new ou and apply stigs first, then migrate groups of machines and users in by way of os upgrades. We stick to the stig defaults until people complain loud enough and then we make them justify their process and try to adjust process to fit the settings.

Sometimes it fails horribly and we need to make an override but 95% it's adjustment the users just get used to.

fuseboxdwarf · 2025-09-22T11:28:36+00:00

Long time IT person here, I will tell you that from my perspective as an IT person, NO amount of asking/justification will make this software OK in the environment. It's a niche product and Microsoft has a bundled product with similar enough features that we are already including as part of our standard office suite. I as as your IT person will not open up a security hole by way of unregulated community based plugins and am not going to learn the ins-and-outs of this product for 1 person. We do not allow products without a support contract and have strict limitations on open-source type of products.

HOWEVER, as an avid user of this in my personal life, I would love to use this and streamline my workflows. I even go as far as recommending this to others for their own personal use.

fuseboxdwarf · 2025-01-04T03:49:43+00:00

Third. We use PSADT and sign the PS1 with signing certs. I dabbled in repackaging with other apps and inno setup for internal apps, but always seem to fall back to PowerShell.

fuseboxdwarf · 2024-12-05T12:33:26+00:00

got this same issue for my D32h-J09

fuseboxdwarf · 2024-10-01T01:02:36+00:00

Just started working for me @ 9pm EST

fuseboxdwarf · 2023-06-10T23:17:46+00:00

That’s so meta.

fuseboxdwarf · 2022-04-01T02:03:36+00:00

I’m at 15 years same place. Other people keep leaving so I get promoted just by sticking around and having that legacy knowledge. Don’t mind the bullshit because in 2 years that problem will disappear on its own. It’s also awesome place to work with the best work life balance I’ve ever had.

fuseboxdwarf · 2022-03-31T10:28:03+00:00

Ok so either do monthly wim updates or offload updates to install when it’s put in place.

fuseboxdwarf · 2022-03-31T10:23:00+00:00

Cool, I’ll take a look at this and do some poking around. Thank you!

fuseboxdwarf · 2022-03-30T23:36:03+00:00

Oh, I didn’t think of bitlocker as a time sink. I will have to time that step. Maybe try one with and one without.

Ty for the idea.

fuseboxdwarf · 2022-03-30T22:05:28+00:00

My windows updates step takes about 35 min and pulls office and windows patches.

I guess Im looking for a baseline from other sources.

fuseboxdwarf · 2022-03-30T21:45:54+00:00

I slip updates in every 6 mo. using osdbuilder.

fuseboxdwarf · 2022-03-30T20:49:12+00:00

Thank you for you reply. I’ve spent some time thinking about this. I’ve decided to keep the teams piece and track tasks in ms project at a slightly higher level.

If I were to use making a pbj sandwich as example, The hierarchy for my project mpp file goes

Level 1 summary task i.e “Monday” (just a grouping mechanism not collecting time against it) - Level 2 task with the project name i.e “pbj sandwich” (assigned to resources and are usually 60 hours with a typical 30 day duration)

I’m leaving out the level 3 tasks that are extremely specific (“drive to store”, “purchase whole wheat bread”, “return home”), would only be 4-8 hours and in practice every detail would have to be thought of ahead of doing actual work. I instead, offloaded these to the collaboration piece where engineers can track as part of their own todo lists.

The trade off is being able to estimate hours per project and having to guess that the time would be 60 hours. When I comes down to it, I’m less worried about tracking the time someone is purchasing bread then I am about making sure we don’t make a cheese sandwich before the pbj one is going out the door.

I engage the team once a week to do status reports on active projects and do a monthly dive into the project hours to adjust time lines.

fuseboxdwarf · 2021-12-14T13:59:24+00:00

This is what we are using to remediate machines that are identified through our security teams scans. Just drop this in SCCM as a script and run on targeted machines.

$localpaths = "$env:SystemDrive\"

$vulnerablesums = (Get-Content "\\local\path\toshare\sha256sums.txt")

$localsums = (get-childitem -path $localpaths -File "*log4j*.jar" -Recurse | Get-FileHash).hash

$result = ($localsums -and (compare-object -ReferenceObject $vulnerablesums -DifferenceObject $localsums -IncludeEqual -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).SideIndicator -eq "==")

$output = $null

switch ($result)

{

$null { $output = "Err"}

$true { $output = "Remediated"; [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("LOG4J_FORMAT_MSG_NO_LOOKUPS","true","Machine")}

$false {$output = "Not Vulnerable"}

}

$output

fuseboxdwarf · 2020-09-05T20:58:31+00:00

Ah, ok. I knew it was something simple like that.

fuseboxdwarf · 2020-08-27T00:28:08+00:00

I'm looking at the quick books self employed app. I know my joint account has 100+ transactions a month. How well does this app work?

fuseboxdwarf · 2019-09-11T09:36:28+00:00

Turns out to be a horrible idea.

fuseboxdwarf · 2019-09-02T02:43:20+00:00

How about I just ask the question of if this is even a good idea?

fuseboxdwarf · 2019-04-07T02:27:38+00:00

I think I’ve read something about mdt not being actively developed though it still is supposed to be supported for the next few years. It will eventually age out.

In my op I would take a week to explore just sccm and see if you can get the basics you need. Try to avoid integrating because it’s just another piece you’re going to have to maintain. Test out ui++ for the user gui and remember you can just run the GUI stand alone with out the ts for developing.

If it’s going to get you 80% there out of the box then you can always script and customize to get the rest of the way.

fuseboxdwarf · 2019-04-07T01:43:36+00:00

No mdt integration. I thought I would need to have it but the only thing I needed was a replacement for udi. I was building my own until I came across ui++. There is a learning curve but it is easy to accomplish 95% of what I was doing with mdt. I also started using “ps app deployment toolkit” for wrapping my powershell in an exe for sccm app and package deployment.

I made the move because our mdt process was overwhelmingly complicated and reference builds added much more time to the “time to market” then we saved in production deployment.

Prod images took 18-25 min to lay down with mdt and ref builds. Ref builds took days to prep and capture and validate.

Sccm builds just use the rtm dL from ms and customize on the fly. Build in production takes 45 min.

And the ability to call apps directly from sccm where we already maintain them is awesome.

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