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Summary This is a potential process for managing Windows 10 computers with autologin configured (Microsoft calls it Autologon, but I don't care). This scenario could be considered a security risk in a business environment if proper care is not taken. Before ...

Summary You need ThinPro 7.1 at minimum in order for this process to work as described. HP Device Manager (HPDM) has a remote reimage task template, but my experience has been that it is riddled with problems. Here are some examples: HP will not support r...

Creating a Remote Reimage Utility There are various ways you can go about creating a bootable utility for this purpose, but I'm willing to bet that if you're reading this, you probably have a copy of Ukit handy on a flash drive somewhere. We're going to cheat...

Installing the Remote Reimage Utility Now that we have our reimage utility, we need a way to install it on our target computer(s). The solution to this problem boils down to these objectives: Shrink the root filesystem Shrink the root partition Format th...

This is a very incomplete draft. I should be able to finish this at some point in the next months. Deploying from HPDM (Draft) As much as I would love to say that we were completely done with this, we still need a way to deploy our reimage utility and instal...

Being fairly new to LinkedIn, I figured it would be a good idea to post some of my recent work. I've gotten pretty comfortable writing Linux Bash scripts over the last few years, but I've tended to shy away from PowerShell because it always seemed too wordy by...

I have a problem... I want all of my internal services to have a valid certificate from my certificate authority. Not a problem, right? Just export the key and certificate to a PFX file. Well, not all of my services will accept a PFX file. They want the raw t...

I love BookStack. It's a simple wiki server which is easy to deploy, and I am a huge fan of how it encourages content reuse. However, it isn't a perfect solution. One of its shortcomings is that there are some gaps in its compatibility with Active Directory (A...

Let's run through a quick scenario. This won't take long, I promise. An Invoke-Command block returns a variable from the remote host where the block executed. I want to store that variable. That's easy enough to do. $Results = Invoke-Command -ComputerName 'D...

Welcome to my life hacking on ThinPro in an enterprise environment. Today's goal is to enable SSHD on a thin client without disturbing the user and without using HP Device Manager's (HPDM) baked in SSH client. For the record, HPDM does have an _Enable and Conn...

Welcome to the life of a ThinPro admin. Every software update and OS upgrade brings fun new challenges (things break) and support from HP is pretty much always spotty. So, what do you do? Well, you get used to hacky workarounds. Today's hack has to do with up...

The objective of this page is to clarify some possible confusion about how standard access control lists (ACLs) are applied to interfaces on Cisco routers. This shouldn't take long. I'm currently reviewing for the CCNA using the free course from Jeremy's IT L...

This is a continuation of Preventing User Interruptions in which I demonstrated a loop that checks for active Citrix connections. Now that I have that in place, I need to figure out a way to remotely disable and re-enable Imprivata on target devices. Doing it ...

As part of my cert prep, I've started working my way through the Boson Netsim CCNA labs. The experience hasn't been perfect so far, but most forum threads and a couple trusted youtubers highly recommend it, so I'm powering through it. Anyway, the reason I ment...

Many people speak very highly of Boson and their ExSim and NetSim products. From my experience so far, NetSim definitely has some advantages over Packet Tracer for cert prep, and the labs are (mostly) pretty solid, and they ask good questions in most of their ...

Background Based on the many enthusiastic recommendations from various CCNA prep courses and communities, I purchased Boson NetSim labs for my CCNA studies. However, unlike many a Redditor in r/ccna, I wasn't happy with the Boson labs. You see, NetSim's expla...

This is going to be another quick solution to a problem I have. Long story short, we have a lot of shared computers. Each shared computer has a local profile for every user that has EVER logged in to it. Profiles get messy and collect clutter; they almost neve...

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One of the very first things you learn about when managing file and folder permissions (or any permissions, really) is that you should always assign permissions to groups, never individual users. That's all fine and wonderful if you're starting from scratch, b...

Summary This article only applies to extension properties in ThinPro. Managing Windows IoT devices with HPDM is a different animal. HP Device Manager (HPDM) has the ability to dynamically group devices by different properties. This functionality makes it eas...