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...
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...
1000 Faces
Need 1000 or unique user photos for your lab? There is a great website for just such a thing. https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/image. Let's break down some code to see how we can pull a few hundred pictures. The first thing we need to know is how many we want. We...
