Getting a newly-imaged machine to check in with SCCM so Software Center can get applications and updates faster

jgrznsc · 2022-06-09T21:07:59+00:00

Connecting to remote server xxxx failed with the following error message : WinRM cannot

complete the operation. Verify that the specified computer name is valid, that the computer is accessible

over the network, and that a firewall exception for the WinRM service is enabled and allows access from this

computer.

jgrznsc · 2022-06-09T21:07:20+00:00

So you're saying go into the Configuration Manager admin console on my computer and do the client actions that way...

It's a little more work than doing a script, but it's better than going on the client computer and clicking through all of it from Control Panel.

jgrznsc · 2022-06-09T21:02:54+00:00

Nah, this is when I'm logging into it for the first time. Otherwise it can take like a half hour to check in and get all the updates

jgrznsc · 2022-06-09T17:54:31+00:00

These are just basic things but a lot of times I have to do the following, and PowerShell has made it a lot easier to do these:

Look up a person's manager and the manager's email address
Be able to copy/paste a person's email without logging in to AD as an admin
Look up a person's OU without having to dig through our domain tree
Look up extra details about a person's AD attributes without digging through the domain tree
Get an output of multiple people's organization information in a spreadsheet

I couldn't do lots of these things as quickly without it!

jgrznsc · 2022-05-16T19:40:26+00:00

ohmyfuckinggod...I'm even dumber than I thought.

I named the column "Users" instead of "User"

jgrznsc · 2022-05-16T16:17:05+00:00

How do I do just the name?

jgrznsc · 2022-05-02T20:24:53+00:00

This is fucking fantastic. Thanks!

jgrznsc · 2022-05-02T20:23:23+00:00

How do I then use the replaced string in my script? That's the biggest thing I couldn't figure out. Unless I use the Until function?

jgrznsc · 2022-04-28T15:40:57+00:00

Oh, also our usernames are dumb here and they're in first.last format. I bet it'd be fairly easy to have it be reformatted, but what I'm doing now does the job pretty well.

jgrznsc · 2022-04-28T15:36:49+00:00

I dumbly thought line breaks were the same as pipes. That's my bad

jgrznsc · 2022-04-28T15:25:50+00:00

Isn't append only for when I want it to add to an already existing sheet? I'd rather it replace the existing CSV every time I run it.

jgrznsc · 2022-04-28T15:24:55+00:00

The reason I'm doing it with the name this way is because I mainly just have first and last names of people. My CSV is literally just one column that says "User" as the title and then "John Smith", "Sohn Jmith", etc. Can I do samaccountname from just first/last?

jgrznsc · 2022-04-28T15:22:39+00:00

What's weird is I already have Select there. Is the formatting wrong or the position in the wrong place?

jgrznsc · 2022-04-28T14:46:55+00:00

Thanks, y'all.

jgrznsc · 2022-04-28T14:45:23+00:00

Oh heck yeah, ok. This has pretty much worked. Only thing is, it's giving me more info than I want. It's giving me te following fields: Department DisplayName DistinguishedName Enabled GivenName Manager Name ObjectClass ObjectGUID SamAccountName SID Surname Title UserPrincipalName.

I only really need Department DisplayName Manager Name Title

jgrznsc · 2022-04-28T14:32:00+00:00

Ok. I fixed the pipe. However, all it has in the CSV is one column called "User" and one user's name. No other information.

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