Packaging Non-MSI Apps for Intune Win32 Deployment
The EXE Problem Nobody Warns You About A logistics client called us in a panic. Their helpdesk was burning 12 hours a week walking users through manual installs of a…
PowerShell Variables: Scope, Types, and Best Practices
Last month we inherited a 3,000-line PowerShell deployment script from a manufacturing client. The thing was riddled with global variables bleeding into functions, type mismatches crashing midnight runs, and zero…
PowerShell For, ForEach, and While Loops Explained
Six Hours of Copy-Paste, Gone in One Loop Last quarter we inherited a client environment with 140 Windows servers. The previous admin had been manually checking disk space on each…
PowerShell -AsJob: Run Long Network Tasks Without the Wait
When Your Script Blocks for 20 Minutes A managed services client we support runs a Windows environment across three sites — roughly 400 endpoints. Their network team had a PowerShell…
VMware vSphere Administration Tips That Save Time
We had a client come to us six months post-deployment with a vSphere cluster running at 78% average CPU utilization across all hosts. DRS was enabled. HA was enabled. Everything…