Matt Benninge @matbe.bsky.social

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Matt Benninge @matbe.bsky.social

Matt Benninge @matbe.bsky.social

@matbg

Client Management, Powershell, C#, Automation

Sweden Katılım Mart 2011
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Matt Benninge @matbe.bsky.social
New Blog post: Why is ”Add-Content” bad in PowerShell 5.1? I have seen a lot of people using Add-Content in their scripts to write to a log file (and I confess I used to be one of them). But why is it bad and what can you do instead? 2pintsoftware.com/news/details/w…
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Jörgen Nilsson
Jörgen Nilsson@ccmexec·
Our Microsoft Management User group - Spring meetup is now sold out!! So cool to see that the interest is huge for an in person meetup! Huge thanks to @2pintsoftware for sponsoring and making this meetup possible! meetup.com/microsoft-mana…
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Przemysław Kłys@PrzemyslawKlys·
I've created a service for monitoring uptime of Active Directory along couple of nice features. It monitors dns, ldap, kerberos, ntp/time, adws, replication, fsmo roles, shares, sysvol replication, provides alerts via email with incidents, recoveries, and autogenerating html report every X minutes with findings. It not only checks if ports are open but actively checks if the data is being processed and returned correctly. TestimoX.Monitoring service will replace my other PowerShell scripts working on schedule to deliver end-to-end availability.
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Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

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Joe Parker
Joe Parker@joe_lenovo·
Lenovo CDRT just published a completely new Think BIOS Config Tool (and module) built on PowerShell. Also released a new Lenovo BIOS Certificate Tool and Module. Find out more here: blog.lenovocdrt.com/introducing-th…
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Martin Bengtsson
Martin Bengtsson@mwbengtsson·
🚀 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Toast Notification Script v3 is here! I've completely REWRITTEN my popular Toast Notification Script from the ground up - now exclusively for Microsoft Intune! Perfect for: 📢 Weekly reminders 🔄 Pending reboot notifications 📱 Company Portal integration 🎯 Custom organizational messages Ready to deploy? Get it now: imab.dk/big-announceme… #msintune #powershell #windows11 #toastnotification
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Bryan Dam
Bryan Dam@bdam555·
End of an era but makes sense in light of Windows annual release cycle. Note that Technical Previews are also dead leaving us with 'Fast Ring'. Which, again, makes sense in light of the fact that we're not going to see emerging features that the team needs feedback on.
@rnabmitra@rnabmitra

#ConfigMgr will transition to a Yearly release cycle techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/configura…

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Guy Leech
Guy Leech@guyrleech·
Wow, getting my @Plex server running on @Synology to work again after they suggested I change password & sign out of all devices was way harder than it should've been. Had to vi Preferences.xml to change a subnet. Used vi a heck of a lot this week! 😂
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2Pint Software
2Pint Software@2pintsoftware·
🚀 Navigating the Hybrid IT Landscape: Optimize #Bandwidth & #ContentDelivery with #StifleR 🌐 Join 2Pint Software for the latest in our webinar series where we’ll dive into  throttling and P2P and discover how to reduce resilience on traditional content distribution
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WorkPlaceNinjaSummit
WorkPlaceNinjaSummit@wpninjasummit·
The BlackLotus Secure Boot enforcement is coming and if you’re not prepared, you could end up with bricked devices, dead recovery media, and a flood of helpdesk calls. In this session Mike Terrill will walk you through the steps to apply and enforce revocations safely.
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