It’s Ok to be you
Our American society is driven to force people to mask up and be something else. This is very true in IT. In IT, we are told we need to have a decade of rust experience, even though it isn't a decade old. Impossible standards are always around us, forcing us to believe that we must match those standards to be a valid person or employee. This is...
Message in a bottle – The Box
This will seem dumb, but do you need a message box in your script? Normally no, but when you are using a script for an end-user, you might need it. So, let us take a look at how to do it real quick. The Script function Invoke-SHDMessageBox { [cmdletbinding()] param (...
Print to All printers!
Recently I came into a company where their printers were called printer 1, printer 2... and so on and so forth. It was amazing. No one knew which printer went where, and I was asked to make some kind of sense of it. Since I had the support of the people, why not print...
Convert a Mac Address to a CIDR with Powershell
Today, I needed to convert a mac address to a CIDR. The lesson I learned about this is to go back to the basics instead of looking around for a quick answer. So, to the basics first. A mac address is a 4 octet number that represents a binary position. It ranges...
