Category Archives: Cool Stuff

My First Chocolately Package [Approved] – BatteryBar

By | October 25, 2016
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https://chocolatey.org/packages/BatteryBar Chocolately is like apt-get, but for Windows.  My favorite thing about chocately is having the ability to reach out and update all of my packages with one command line “choco upgrade all”!  Making the package took a bit of trial and error, but it was easy enough.  It uses Powershell at it’s base and has… Read More »

Add MDT Selection Profiles for each Out-of-Box Driver Folder using a PowerShell Script

By | October 23, 2016
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MDT Task Sequence’s Inject driver steps do not support specifying folders,  so Selection Profiles are the defacto method for bridging this gap.  Here is a script I created to ease the process of creating/importing multiple system drivers into MDT at once.  If ran more than once, it will not create duplicate selection profile entries. /BG

Whoops! Performed a CLEAN on my 2tb External USB

By | July 27, 2016
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By mistake I performed a CLEAN diskpart operation on my 2tb external usb hdd.  After a couple of minutes of panic, I was able to rebuild the partition table with an excellent opensource tool TestDisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk).  It was simple to use and located and re-built my partition table within seconds.   /BG

Easy way to clean-up MDT XML files

By | July 15, 2016
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Notepad++ is a must-have. If you don’t have it go get it (ninite.com). Also install the “XML Tools” add-on and use it to “pretty up” your XML files.