Stephen Valdinger
Automation nerd. I love all things Powershell, and am eager to teach others. I also love fishing, and woodworking. My wife calls be weird, but I like to think of it as eclectic.
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Actually, you can. Depending on what the update is there are a couple ways to do it. Most will center around a command step using wusa.exe, while others, such as this latest Excel update for exampl...
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Make sure that first box is unchecked. If you tested individually the schedule is probably skipping them because it sees the previous successful deployment of your shutdown package. Its on the Opt...
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Woops, I orphaned this didn't I! My apologies, here's my package. There are a few things you have to change in it, like the license key and version identifier. Here's some helpful links that I use...
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What? No powershell? Get-Process explorer | Stop-Process This kills explorer on my machine, and it instantly recovers when it quits.
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Sure is! You can use a Powershell step for this: New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "$YourRuleName" -Direction Inbound -LocalPort $PortsNeeded -Protocol TCP -Action Allow You can use multiple ports c...
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In Powershell you could do this: Get-ChildItem "HKLM:SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v4\Full\" | Get-ItemPropertyValue -Name Release | ForEach-Object { $_ -ge 394254 } You could also d...
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And now my favorite Haiku: It's not DNS There's no way it's DNS It was DNS
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Smells like DNS to me. Inventory is pulling from AD I'm assuming. If the name change worked I'd expect it to be reflected on the next refresh of Active Directory in Inventory. However, AD != DNS. C...
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You can just copy the above and save it as an XML file and then go to File > Import and select the XML and it will put the package together for you.
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You'll just have to copy and paste it into this box. I like to highlight the code bits and then hit the Paragraph symbol and change the formatting to code type. makes it a bit easier to distinguish...