I am pleased to announce that after almost one year of work, long nights, hundreds of coffees, planning, redoing, and the help of the dedicated team of Advanced Installer, the MSI Packaging Training Book is now released. The MSI Packaging Training ebook is a practical guide for all the […]
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As mentioned in a previous blog post, it is possible to use PowerShell and Google Translate free public endpoint to perform translations on text. The reason I started the previous blog post and this whole investigation is because of the slmgr.vbs utility which comes with Windows. The slmgr utility is […]
I was struggling with a Windows licensing topic and as it turns out, Microsoft it’s designing some tools to be language dependent in terms of output (i’ll do a separate blog post regarding this). There were many ideas on how to tackle the problem, but afterwards I thought “hey, I […]
A small update was added to the SCCM Query Creator to include 71 popular WQL queries. These queries have been added in a new tab called Query List. These are queries that I have personally used, or gathered via other sources like EnterInIT or Anders Rodland personal blog. I find […]
As you might have seen from my previous SCCM Query Creator project, I wanted to have a simple way to have a list from a text file, which I then outputted in a list view, and then, when I select the name, I would read from an internal embedded text […]
If you work with SCCM you are probably used to create machine/user collections for different purposes, either for assigning apps, either to perform a task sequence and so on. The only issue with this might be the way you get your user/machine list to do these queries. Sometimes you might […]
If you need to download an MSIX/APPX package from the Microsoft Store, you don’t technically have any alternative rather than the actual Store. But I’ve stumbled upon a PowerShell script designed by Mattias which is easy to use and so far it works great. First, navigate to the GitHub repository […]
One tricky part of updating an application is that you might run into the situation that the user doesn’t have admin rights. For example, I have two users on my machine, my user which is of course the administrator, and another user without admin rights. If the other user is […]
In this example we will create a simple form with a Combo Box, which will act as a drop down list. As an addition, we will add the functionality in the code to detect when the user selects anything from the drop down menu. To create a simple PowerShell form, […]
There are many possible ways in which you can install a PowerShell module and most of us are probably using the nuget package manager to achieve this. But what if you want to install a PowerShell module without having access to the internet on a particular machine? First of […]
I was never a big fan of recently added apps that were shown in the Start Menu, and myself I disabled this option on my PC. If you want to push a policy to your users by using Intune, here are the steps you need to follow to achieve this: […]
During the installation process of WebApps, there are cases where users are asked to select an SSL certificate. This is because this certificate is used by the IIS elements. However, when it comes to an upgrade, you may not want your users to get asked for the SSL certificate again. […]