Luke Nichols
Network Engineer at Kettering University
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Script to Wake on LAN on Several Subnets
I ran into a weird use case recently where I needed to perform a large-scale WoL for a bunch of lab computers after a scheduled campus-wide power outage. Well, I guess I didn't need to, but the alt...
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PowerShell Scanner Leaving Behind Old Data
We are in the middle of a migration from our old endpoint security solution (ESET) to our new one (FortiClient). I discovered that ESET does not properly clean up its WMI entries when you uninstall...
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Automatically Retrieve Dell Warranty Info and Import it into PDQ Inventory Custom Fields
One of my coworkers was tasked with pulling reports of old computers that need to be replaced which sent me down a rabbit hole of trying to automatically determine that based on data in PDQ Invento...
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PDQ Inventory Auto Reports Rely on Print Spooler?
Hello, I just noticed that half of our PDQ Inventory auto reports have been failing since July 7th. This coincides with when we implemented steps to mitigate risks from the PrintNightmare vulnerabi...
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[Guide] How to Deploy Matlab 2017a
We spent about a week working with Mathworks support and PDQ support to figure this out and they requested that I post my results here in case others have the same issue.We specifically worked with...