What Are You Doing Right Now
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I don't?Every Job Posting I've seen requires some knowledge of AD.
Yes, like how to attach a desktop or change a password. Takes seconds to learn. You've already done those things. Learning to deploy it isn't a bad thing to know, but not a priority. No one is ever going to hire you to set up a new AD system, just to do basic maintenance of an old one. You literally can learn that stuff in an evening. So put in your one evening and move on.
I did that already. Only thing I gotta figure out is how to add a Computer/device to the domain
- Control Panel
- Deployment Script
- PowerShell
Add-Computer –Domainname my.domain.tld -restart - ...
BTW @WrCombs: If you want to learn something really useful, learn PowerShell. Scripting helps you to automate repetitive and error prone tasks like user creation, group assignments and so on. You could build a script to assign users to groups. That script could also inform users and managers about new assignments by mail. That's what I do with our research assistants and students, for example.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I don't?Every Job Posting I've seen requires some knowledge of AD.
Yes, like how to attach a desktop or change a password. Takes seconds to learn. You've already done those things. Learning to deploy it isn't a bad thing to know, but not a priority. No one is ever going to hire you to set up a new AD system, just to do basic maintenance of an old one. You literally can learn that stuff in an evening. So put in your one evening and move on.
I did that already. Only thing I gotta figure out is how to add a Computer/device to the domain
- Control Panel
- Deployment Script
- PowerShell
Add-Computer –Domainname my.domain.tld -restart - ...
BTW @WrCombs: If you want to learn something really useful, learn PowerShell. Scripting helps you to automate repetitive and error prone tasks like user creation, group assignments and so on. You could build a script to assign users to groups. That script could also inform users and managers about new assignments by mail. That's what I do with our research assistants and students, for example.
Along these lines, having a script to remove a person from security and distribution groups makes like easy as can be when you get a termination notice 5 days after the fact. . .
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
BTW @WrCombs: If you want to learn something really useful, learn PowerShell.
Did you watch my video?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
BTW @WrCombs: If you want to learn something really useful, learn PowerShell.
Did you watch my video?
I'm preaching that all day long...
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
BTW @WrCombs: If you want to learn something really useful, learn PowerShell.
Did you watch my video?
Not quite, Just purchased a powershell book though.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
BTW @WrCombs: If you want to learn something really useful, learn PowerShell.
Did you watch my video?
Not quite, Just purchased a powershell book though.
Forget about books. They are old when they hit the shelves. I think I own about... erm... maybe 15 IT books? Most of them are 15-20 years old, some are about programming languages, two are about SharePoint installation and administration.
Essentially everything you need can be found online.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
BTW @WrCombs: If you want to learn something really useful, learn PowerShell.
Did you watch my video?
Not quite, Just purchased a powershell book though.
Forget about books. They are old when they hit the shelves. I think I own about... erm... maybe 15 IT books? Most of them are 15-20 years old, some are about programming languages, two are about SharePoint installation and administration.
Essentially everything you need can be found online.
Oh okay
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Everything Slowed wayyy down as of 20 minutes ago.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
BTW @WrCombs: If you want to learn something really useful, learn PowerShell.
Did you watch my video?
Not quite, Just purchased a powershell book though.
Forget about books. They are old when they hit the shelves. I think I own about... erm... maybe 15 IT books? Most of them are 15-20 years old, some are about programming languages, two are about SharePoint installation and administration.
Essentially everything you need can be found online.
I keep one because it is autographed.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Everything Slowed wayyy down as of 20 minutes ago.
Like... workload slowed down? Or the computers are dying?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Everything Slowed wayyy down as of 20 minutes ago.
Like... workload slowed down? Or the computers are dying?
ML is slow.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Everything Slowed wayyy down as of 20 minutes ago.
Like... workload slowed down? Or the computers are dying?
ML is slow.
Ah, I've been on the phone. That must be it.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Everything Slowed wayyy down as of 20 minutes ago.
Like... workload slowed down? Or the computers are dying?
Workload, Life, ML
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Everything Slowed wayyy down as of 20 minutes ago.
Like... workload slowed down? Or the computers are dying?
ML is slow.
Ah, I've been on the phone. That must be it.
Your
spamming skillknowledge transfer rate was better a few years ago
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
BTW @WrCombs: If you want to learn something really useful, learn PowerShell.
Did you watch my video?
Not quite, Just purchased a powershell book though.
It's more easier to get into using PowerShell if you start out with a task that you do often. And then search online showing examples on how to implement those tasks via PowerShell.
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@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
BTW @WrCombs: If you want to learn something really useful, learn PowerShell.
Did you watch my video?
Not quite, Just purchased a powershell book though.
It's more easier to get into using PowerShell if you start out with a task that you do often. And then search online showing examples on how to implement those tasks via PowerShell.
Yeah, there is maybe 5 minutes of PS basics you should read about. Like how it is object based, what are commandlets, etc. Then, dive in. Sure, read more, but not first. Start with... actually doing basic things at the command line in PS.
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Morning everyone!
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Here, something to play with:
Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_PhysicalMemory | Select-Object Manufacturer,@{Name="Size (GB)"; Expression={[math]::round($_.Capacity/1GB, 2)}},Configuredclockspeed,Banklabel,Devicelocator,Serialnumber | Format-Table -AutoSizeAlso works (like many other things in PowerShell) on remote machines
Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_PhysicalMemory -ComputerName xxx | Select-Object Manufacturer,@{Name="Size (GB)"; Expression={[math]::round($_.Capacity/1GB, 2)}},Configuredclockspeed,Banklabel,Devicelocator,Serialnumber | Format-Table -AutoSizeSource:
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Morning everyone!
Morning? Already made an apple pie, visited my parents, went shopping and just got back
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Setting up a new pc for a client.
