If my math is correct (?) - this year will be 31 years since #Windows Update rolled out.

Let's take a moment to give thanks to the good things WSUS brought us. I am kind of joking. I won't miss most of it. But I will miss the product-based filtering. Maybe someday Azure Update Manager will gain that capability. 2 steps fwd, 1 step back. Modern progress.

This annoys TF out of me. Violates 437 laws of basic UX design. Just put down the ivermectin vape juice and flatten this mess out. A sub-menu for a total of 6 items should be punishable by crotch taser and pepperspray.

My son is on tour the next couple of month in UK and the EU. He's in London this week. Any recommendations for catching live local music?

Raise your virtual hand if you've had clients request a new notification alert for bad situations, then ignore those alerts entirely.

The recent posts about Microsoft cooperating with US agencies to share cloud-hosted BitLocker keys upon request has caused a lot of debate. My 2 cents (1.5 based on current inflation)...

Consultant scenario 32: Client insists you build them a 1 story house, then complains the house is only 1 story tall.

I had to ask. #azure #m365 #cloud

I may or may not have once told someone who was thinking of changing from construction to IT work: "It's pretty much the same. Except, when a coworker pisses you off, you can't just kick their ass during lunchtime, you have to say 'I'll consider that.' and walk away"

I'm sure there are exceptions, but I've worked with quite a few clients who implemented Workday and every one of them the Workday team is like this to HR, IT, other contractors...

So many meetings today I feel like I aged 10 years in the last 6 hours. I wonder what Einstein would've thought about that.

New PoshBytes is out now! Learn how to stopping guessing and start accurately measuring with Stopwatch! Watch now: youtube.com/shorts/Nr4PZ... #PowerShell #Automation #Scripting #DevOps

Hey #PowerShell people, new toys are out! Next up is #Reptile: Read Evaluate Print Terminal Input Loop Editor - A #Scaley Simple PowerShell Data #REPL. Interactive mostly safe constrained web servers running sandboxed #PowerShell github.com/PowerShellWe...

TN "If you don't like the weather, just wait 15 minutes, lol!" MN "If you don't like the weather, stay inside. lol!" FL "if you don't like the weather, you're sober. lol!" VA "If you don't like the weather, f**k you! lol!"

Me: "winget is super easy! Here's how you install Office apps, just 1, 2, ..... uhhhhhhhhhhhh....."

IT nerds who work for larger employers (big corp) how do you share scripts and code snippets across dispersed team members? GitHub, Azure DevOps, File Shares (incl. DropBox, OneDrive, G-Drive, etc.) ? It seems to be really inconsistent from conversations I've had recently.

The more I work with Azure Arc-enabled machines, I find myself moving from saying Arc is "half-baked" to saying it's "0.45 baked"

WiFi router 50 ft away on 500 mbps FiOS drop, still only get 150-200 mpbs on 5 GHz. Run a CAT6 line and behold, bushes catch fire, my beard grows 4 ft long, and I'm speaking to a village holding clay tablets with an orchestra playing in the background. Okay, maybe not that far, but it's 500 mpbs now

I'm not name-dropping, but certain "large" vendors with public REST endpoints who decide to do maintenance every weekend should probably buy a dictionary and lookup "redundancy". Just sayin.

well. Home Depot was everything I thought it could be. Uplifting. Tragic. Inspiring. Confounding. Expensive. All the basic food groups. Great fun for the whole family... if you leave them at home.

Saturday afternoon choices: hardware store, or punch myself in the face. Pain level is about the same. But the punching option take far less time.

The math ain't mathin' for me. Maybe I need to inhale stronger paint fumes and it'll make sense...

I love the smell of Linux DisplayPort USB-C dock drivers on mismatched kernel versions in the morning. Smells like... victory. I name my turds "victory" sometimes. There is a logic in this somewhere.

Drunken/glue-sniffing/balloon-inhaling IT pro tip of the day- Friday edition: If you use @warp.dev Terminal (you should give it a try), and worry about losing your agent chat history, you can back it up from your user profile path (Linux = ~/.local/share/warp-terminal and ~/.config/warp-terminal)

Remember, talking to your code editor like it's a HAL9000 and having a full conversation as if it talks back, isn't crazy. It's therapy. Try it sometime.

Kindness costs nothing but means everything. You can be anything—be kind.

New PoshBytes short: CmdletBinding The Secret Sauce for Advanced Functions The tiny PowerShell attribute that makes your function act like a real cmdlet. Watch now: youtube.com/shorts/Eyq7d... #PowerShell #Automation #Scripting #DevOps

One of the coolest experiences is using voice commands to tell terraform to delete an entire plan. "Run terraform destroy!" and follow with diabolical evil scientist laughter.

"AI is useless!" "AI is for dumb stuff"... Me... (response in 2.5 seconds) and it's 98% correct on the first response...

Trying to imagine how my life might have been different if my mom or grandma was like Andrea. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tgP...

Happy proactive planned productive and pleasant patching proliferation. May all your machines come back to life after their next reboot.

Helping someone troubleshoot an Entra device account issue and looked at one of their device names. "Ah. There it is. The reason is your device names are dumb. I'll send my invoice"

Hit my 40 hrs for the week only a few hours into today. Maybe I should drink a 40 to compensate. I don't drink anymore, but this week might make an exception.

I've had a few peeps ask if I was planning to update my book "Visual #LISP Developer's Bible" for #AutoCAD, but #Autodesk cancelled my NFR license I had been using years ago, and I don't have the budget to rent it today, so I had to shelve that idea. But I would love to - maybe someday.

4 hrs troubleshooting an Orchestrator runbook that integrates Service Manager and an Exchange Online shared calendar. 16 words I hope to not hear myself repeat anytime soon.

New PoshBytes short: Splatting in PowerShell. Cleaner commands, reusable parameter bundles, and fewer backticks haunting your scripts. Also featuring PSNotes ConvertTo-Splatting. youtube.com/shorts/xuSOd... #PowerShell #Automation #Scripting #DevOps

Teams call noise suppression is the only feature I actually like. It's amazing, even from a Linux machine via browser. Can't even hear my neighbor's wife screaming at her husband as he "tunes" his broken truck engine by flooring it in neutral for 15 mins straight.

@warpfork.bsky.social jacked their plan pricing up recently (pro went from $180 to $216/yr). Feels like being in a dentist's chair and in the middle of cleaning, he inserts his entire leg in your mouth. "open wider please..."

Pebble-snatching Shaolin Temple kung fu #powershell tip of the day: If you plan on using PowerShell to connect to SharePoint Online with the PnP.PowerShell module, be sure to install the module before testing your script or runbook.

"Gather 'round grand-childrens n' let grandpappy tell you about way back in 2026 when GitHub Copilot would help you write revision comments in your code and it never knew the current date." "Eeeww! You wrote code?! That's so tragic! How did your people survive?"

Some songs sound much better with good headphones (not even earbuds). Some I wouldn't expect, like "Follow Your Bliss" by the B-52's. The mix is fantastic. #randomthoughts

I post silly replies on Instagram all the time and noticed that the least thoughtful comments get the most likes. I need to stop thinking too much. It's apparently not popular.

So the recent blog post and YT video were my canary in the Internet mine, and the canary needs an oxygen mask. It's good to know for sure though. Spares me investing time in things that I shouldn't. There's so much newer/better content today anyway, so I can focus on absorbing knowledge more.

If you go to #azure arc, machines, then click "Open query" - tell me: Is there an uglier canned #kusto query than that?

Just curious, if you mis-type an address on Typo Ave. is that a Typo Typo, or just a Typo?

Oooh. This hits deep. I'm sure some of you can relate... www.youtube.com/watch?v=col_...

Share this with all your non-tech family and friends for their after-holidays enjoyment (new gadgets from Santa) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ti1...

A friend who's an accountant asked me if I would trust letting an AI agent have read access to my bank and credit accounts to analyze. I really don't know. I mean. I'm sure the banks and credit companies are giving our accounts AI access. But that's not as broad-reaching I suppose. Thoughts?