The Random Admin
Welcome to the random admin – a hub for system administrators passionate about teaching and leveraging technology to support local businesses. Explore our diverse topics. In my journey, I’ve gained insights into mental health, integrating it into my work to foster unexpected growth in others. At the random admin, I merge mental health and IT through engaging stories, offering a unique blend of knowledge and self-understanding.
Adding Members Within Members
Nested objects are very useful as they can give you a way to store complex data. The featured image of this blog is of a nested temple. Each room is nested on top of the other. What's cool about this image is each room has items inside of it. For example, there a...
Upgrade Windows – Dell
I have a love hate relationship with dell. When it comes to windows 10 upgrades, I really don't like them. How do you mass push windows 10 upgrade to clients without breaking them. As many of you know, recently the 20H2 update has broken many different dells. So, a...
Citrix Workspace Installer Script
I don't like working with Citrix receiver. They drive me crazy. One version doesn't work with the other and so on and so forth. Then finding the one you need is a pain. Thankfully, the workspace is a little better at this process. Many of my clients have recently...
Azure SKU to Real Names
A recent project hand me a little batty. The names of office products change almost every 3 months. Its sometimes small and then it's sometimes their full product sweep. This makes it super hard to keep up. The good thing is the SKUPartNumber does not change often. I...
Azure Auditing – Licensed Vs Non-Licensed
Do you need to audit your azure tenant for Licensed users vs non-licensed users? There is a simple way to do this using the MSOnline module. If you don't have the MSOline module installed, you will need to install it. The big thing is this module only works on...
Local Website
Here we are again, trying to make a device work from one center to another. Each center has the same server IP address but different subnets. All the subnets are /24. So, that makes life easier. All of them are .5 as well. So, that makes life much easier. So, how do...
Message in The Ballon
Do you need something to let your end-user know what's going on? Don't want your end-user to see the program running? Well, PowerShell has the ability to use the system windows notify system. AKA, the message box that pops up on the right of the screen. The first step...
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...
