Burnout In IT and How to Avoid it
For years, I thought Burnout was equal to weak. Boy was I wrong. Burnout is a real thing and it changes how you see this world. Burnout can take a good worker and make them the worst worker. That's what it did to me. What is Burnout and How do you avoid it? What is burnout Burnout is a special type of work-related stress. It's a state of...
SHD – Set Those Speakers
I hate it when someone calls and says they can't hear their video while on a terminal server. 99% of the time is because the sound is muted on the local computer. Believe it or not, this is very simple to solve. We do this by using wscript.shell. $Obj = New-Object...
SHD – Set Mac Structure
I hate it when you get a mac address that's not in the right format. Last week I got the mac address XX-XX-XX-XX when I needed to input it as XX:XX:XX:XX. So aggravating. So, here comes PowerShell to help. First, let's validate the mac address. Second, let's change...
TPM Chips
When you need to bitlocker hundreds of machines, but can't have the machines restart, it's best to look for the TPM chip another way instead of the standard hardware check method. The best way to do this is using a PowerShell Cim Instance. Get-CimInstance -ClassName...
