Can Windows 10 and a suite of applications, including Office, be automated without fancy deployment tools? The short answer: yes, but it’s not pretty. There are problems that MDT and SCCM simply make disappear. I’m not thrilled about dealing with these issues. Manual prep takes way more time, is less functional, and only starts to make sense if you have more than a handful of Windows clients to deploy.

This article will demonstrate a typical delegation for adding a computer object to an OU and how to tweak the delegation to prevent access to the ms-Mcs-AdmPwd attribute and how this can leak Local Admin passwords.

Ever looked at a packet trace and wondered where all those network connections are coming from, or where they’re headed, without having to query each IP one by one? Wireshark has you covered.