Andrew Berges

MECM/Security. Definitely not a bot, might be a collection of PowerShell scripts. Tweets don't reflect the opinions of anyone. 🏳️‍🌈 Ally

[MoundLore @MoundLore]

RadioShack was the last store where being confused felt useful.

You’d walk in for batteries and end up standing in front of tiny drawers full of parts you didn’t understand yet. Resistors. Switches. Speaker wire. Fuses. Project kits. Adapters for problems so specific they sounded made up until somebody behind the counter nodded immediately and disappeared into aisle six.

People remember the batteries.
They forget the feeling.

RadioShack made technology feel close enough to touch. You could buy a soldering iron, a police scanner, a bag of LEDs, a replacement remote part, a weird cable, a battery club card, or one tiny component that somehow brought the whole thing back to life.

Kids built crystal radios. People repaired RC cars. Teens stripped speaker wire in garages.

Some employee who looked like he had worked there since 1987 could translate your terrible explanation into exactly the part you needed. That kind of place teaches a different relationship with the world.

Machines had backs and screws and wires. Things failed for reasons. You could open them. You could make mistakes. You could learn enough to stop being intimidated.

Then the world changed.

Screens replaced screws. Batteries got glued in. Devices got sealed. Parts disappeared. Stores stopped assuming people wanted to understand anything below the surface. People call that convenience. But there’s a reason people remember RadioShack harder than they should. It was one of the last places that made technology feel unfinished.

Like normal people still had permission to participate. Now most of us carry objects more powerful than anything in that store ever sold and most of us would not even know where to begin if one stopped working.

[Andrew Berges @ConfigDude]

@JordanTheITguy Considering MS has partnered with Giphy in Teams and it's a stock GIF in there, more than likely, assuming the service stays up 🙂

[Andrew Berges @ConfigDude]

according to MS support, a traditional #MECM build and capture #OSD scenario is no longer supported because SysPrep is not supported to run under a system account, which is the cause of my reboot loop and ShellHost.exe crashing.

[Jack Rhysider 🏴‍☠️ @JackRhysider]

Somewhere in your infrastructure, a forgotten machine is still running.

[Andrew Berges @ConfigDude]

I may die on this hill.

[Gary Blok [GARYTOWN.COM] @gwblok]

You want to go Cloud Native, 100% #Intune. Great! Do it!

But why completely dump #ConfigMgr? Reduce your CM footprint to OSD only. You still need an OSD solution with cloud native.

CM for OSD only = Easy to setup & maintain. It costs you nothing extra.
CM OSD to Autopilot

[Andrew Berges @ConfigDude]

@skatterbrainzz @Lenovo I've never been impressed with MediaTek processors. They always seemed subpar compared to the Qualcomm SOC's.

[Rob Joyce @RGB_Lights]

US Government moving on China associated TP Link as another concern in our cyber supply chain. Growing to dominate the residential WiFi and router market, they are seen as vulnerable and a tool used in hacks. Similar to advisories on Huawei and Kaspersky, move away!

[Johan Arwidmark @jarwidmark]

New blog post: Microsoft Copilot App Breaking Sysprep (in Windows 10 and Windows 11) https://t.co/oq5ehowcpy

[nine inch nails @nineinchnails]

35 years of Pretty Hate Machine.

[Andrew Berges @ConfigDude]

@PotentEngineer @bdam555 @TheWMIGuy Great list, thanks for sharing.

[Robert Graham @robertgraham]

Everyone: Telegram is encrypted.
Experts: Telegram IS NOT an encrypted messaging app
<CEO gets arrested>
News: Telegram is an encrypted messaging app.
Experts: Telegram IS NOT an encrypted messaging app.

[rahlzle dazzle @drahcir_rahl]

Webdevs

STOP

DISABLING

PASTING

[Andrew Berges @ConfigDude]

@acjuelich @TeamViewer VPN or Wireguard with Apache Guacamole?

[Mike Terrill [MVP] @miketerrill]

If you are still running Configuration Manager 2211, support ends today (June 5th, 2024). It is time to upgrade to a newer release. #ConfigMgr #2211

[Andrew Berges @ConfigDude]

FYI ... #ConfigMgr documentation has been updated to include support for ADK 10.1.26100.1 which was released last week.
https://t.co/0NaEXPbC8H

[Deployment Research @DeployResearch]

Check out this recent blog post 👨‍💻 Fixing the MDT Integration for ConfigMgr 2403 #ConfigMgr2403 #ConfigMgr #MDT
➡️https://t.co/AR880KX1yy

[Microsoft Threat Intelligence @MsftSecIntel]

Since mid-April 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed the threat actor Storm-1811 misusing the client management tool Quick Assist to target users in social engineering attacks that lead to Black Basta ransomware. https://t.co/PA5dW6alnQ

[Maurice Daly [MVP] @modaly_it]

So #MMSMOA is over and it’s time to head back home. But before I go, Driver Automation Tool is getting a full reboot, @jarwidmark is going to help maintain the existing one with me, and enhanced #MSIntune support is coming. Stay tuned!