1. Results of the 2015 /r/Linux Distribution Survey

   About three years ago after seeing a failed comment survey on /r/Linux I decided to create a "real" survey using Google docs to find out what Linux Distributions the folks at /r/Linux were using. These past three years, the results of those surveys were very well received so I wanted to continue the tradition. You can still view the 2012 survey, the 2013 survey, and the 2014 survey.

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2. Deploy Application Updates with Ninite with a Cache on your LAN

   Recently we purchased Ninite Pro for our organization and have implemented silent application updating via a scheduled task with PowerShell. This process uses a cache on our LAN to store updates and speed the whole process along. After some thinking I decided I wanted to get this working off-site so that when students take their laptops home over the summer, they can continue to receive updates.

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3. Enable Bitlocker Disk Encryption Via Scheduled Task

   I've been working on deploying Bitlocker across our Active Directory domain via a scheduled task. The advantage of using a scheduled task to enable Bitlocker (versus a startup or shutdown script) is that I can configure it to run when the computer is idle. I liked this solution over a startup script because my users on laptops very very rarely reboot their computers, and so startup scripts very very rarely get a chance to run.

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4. Schedule a Task to Update ShadowProtect After Hours

   Recently I needed to deploy some updates to some computers running StorageCraft ShadowProtect. The solution here is a little automation with the help of a little batch and schtasks on my workstation.

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5. Remove All Drivers from a Windows Image by a Certain Vendor

   For when you find that you just need to remove all of the drivers from a captured image, or only those of certain makes. PowerShell makes it easy to script this removal so you aren't manually typing a ton of dism commands. I found myself needing to purge some problematic Intel drivers from an image in order to get USB working on some of our older machines. I found that it is possible to remove all drivers from a mounted Windows image and then commit the changes back to the captured WIM completely in PowerShell. Read on if you need the skinny.

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