mykalcook

I'm still learning more about .net in general but I have a mostly limited use of it because .net can be written one way or another... if you tie the .net stuff to root variables then you have an entire script that can be supplemented i'll let you know when it's ready for more testing

I actually feel rather complimented lol. The obfuscation is so that when I build this for PCMover or vectorize the OS files, that I can add it to the for list. variable set 1 0; 1; 2; 3; variable set 2 0; 1; 2; 3; variable set 3 0=(v1+v2) write-host variable set 3 hash table that's the point of the script. also, i have it set as a monolithic script right now and there is some documentation in the code... but essentially, all of the variables you would need to see that are in the root section i know most people write their code like this.... if ( $env:computername -eq "bob*" ) { Write-Host "Pst. If your computer's name is bob... then, you're about to go 'Boss Mode' and keep it real AF." } me? if (this){that};next line it's a lot simpler to me and yeah, if it makes it difficult to read, that's fine. it also takes up a lot fewer lines when I concat the lines like that.

That's cool. I appreciate the feedback. I'm constantly editing the script and I've only been writing it for the past 3.5 months so I'm no guru. If you pull it into ISE, and you look for the hash table variables, it'll show you a list of the code. I'm working on it to be more user friendly but since i'm a one man show, pretty hard to do. The applications section is getting some of the info from chocolatey, and for all intents and purposes, it does what C4B and Ninite do for the apps I want to install to my client machines. Still working on a way to pull the most up to date versions without having to use C4B or even Chocolatey itself. This script kinda hammers together Snappy Driver, ACME certificate loading, Virtual machine installation files, and it does it all from a folder structure for an executable/test-path script I'm looking to build and include into the GUI. When it's done, it'll automate the deployment of a server, the MDT/AD/WDS configuration based on the root variables, and also generate the WinPE boot image for MDT. Once that part is done, you can then boot into PXE and then start doing an in place upgrade to whatever is loaded. The best part is that it doesn't waste time trying to clean an operating system or restore it, it just installs over it and takes a lot less time. I built this mainly because I wanted to automate a way to get a customer set with my Performance and Protection Package, which effectively strips the users data from the drive (without copying the entire thing), and then reconsitute it into a fresh image for an SSD. Can't share what that service costs, but the tool itself is free for anyone to scope out and use. That's the entire point. I'm merging all of these tools that Microsoft has, and it hasn't been a real easy feat. Copying VHD's and doing P2V and then back from V2P, that's not able to be done without sysprep, but this project is going to put that challenge to rest.

Here's an alpha preview of the GUI

See for yourself what it does so far. this was a few weeks ago. This was all commandline/powershell, I've built a GUI that I'm reparsing and cmdletbinding right now

Without getting long winded here, what it does is vectorize the data you have in your user profile and migrates that profile. Currently it deploys the operating system and has a post installation process that allows drivers, virtualization tools, oem-branding (or just whatever you want on your machine), certificate loading, etc. I built a GUI for it, that part works right now, but I'm trying to zipper the provisional server image along with the client process so that it's ubiquitous and doesn't use any paid software whatsoever to do all of these things.

Yeah, that's what they were all saying. My project does more than just deployment, it's also provisioning. It isn't doing straight up backups because it doesn't need to, it just migrates the operating system with the users profile. The PCMover aspect I'm working on. There's a lot to do on my own, but SCCM does what's called provisioning applications and security standards and things of that nature. I'm using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, and what I have so far is in the alpha stages. It was getting a lot of praise until every morning around 8 oclock 3 new downvotes. Every day. https://github.com/secure-digits-plus-llc The project is there.

I kept posting it on Reddit and I kept getting kicked off because these 'system administrators' in sysadmin don't want my project being known about. That's why I'm posting it here. Even Stack Overflow keeps having my stuff downvoted. There's a huge incentive to limit this project, that's what I keep trying to tell people. These companies may not be directly affiliated, but if you think you don't have agents that work for them as moderators... then you don't understand the point of the show 'The Americans' It's real life. Anyone on this forum, any moderator, could be a contractor for the companies that I'm making replacement products for. That's why you will see people vote my work down... but why? It's free and what it will eventually do is containerize the entire operating systems you guys use on a daily basis. Tell me I'm wrong...

No man. It was a joke at first. But I actually built what I said I built. I am looking for people to validate what it does. Dynamic domain restoration, it replaces SCCM. It's able to utilize virtual machines to save your data like that tool Linus used in his video 3 weeks ago, but it does it for free. Check it out. It's not really my fault that companies that make money off of this stuff keep having me booted from forums. I'm trying to give you what they're charging you money for, for free.

By the way... using the word 'conspiracy' is a generalization meant to withhold limits over propoganda... Seems pretty reasonable to me that the US military had more reasons to fly those planes into it's own World Trade Center which was lined with Thermite... And, flew a cruise missle into it's own Pentagon to cover up the "what is now a $22T national debt"... btw Amazon makes money off of every mistake that they make. When you provide the answer and the problem, you can generate an infinite amount of money... but yeah Occams Razor isn't on my side, it's on yours... 1) Free Oil, 2) Free Opium for McKesson and Purdue, and 3) Technological Tyranny Let's rephrase the conversation... My name is Michael, and I'm a gifted programmer trying to help you do the stuff you're paying companies a lot of money for, for free. Not sure what's so crazy about that man. I'm here to help.

Why not check out the project instead of calling me nuts? Seems like Occams Razor is on my side, not yours.

it's the free version of that tool linus had on his show about 3 weeks ago. the one with the usb stick that 'boosts' the performance of an old pc. yeah i'm sure ppl don't care, but it does dynamic domain restoration from bare metal. that's what security is supposed to be about. i could take a hammer to any hard drive in my shop, and after i put a new hard drive in there, i can have a 1:1 restore within 10 minutes, this is without disk imaging and etc. dynamically executable instructions for a 100% restore. i'm working on 'pcmover' functionality, but so far the script provides a workflow for any server or virtualized server to replace the Windows Media Creation Tool. It does what it does in a fraction of the time. So... When you need to update windows to the latest version, my tool will do it in 10 minutes while that thing takes about 45 minutes. That's why. but the reason i posted this was cause of the joke I put in the header of the first image... lol I'll give her a trusted root she can trust... =D

Thought i'd make a reappearance =D Michael Niehaus is not talking to me anymore... I think he's pissed at me ='(

Apple is wrong, period. Apple's terms of service is bullshit. It's cleverly worded and has a lot of the right terminology, but it basically says to everyone that wants to buy it that they can't work on it themselves if they want to. That's bullshit. Any company or product that can only be repaired by the manufacturer is a greedy selfish company. Period. Because at the end of the day, they are refusing to sell the parts, which they should want to sell so that people can buy more of their products, but they don't because they want to reserve the units for maximum profits when they sell the entire machine. This is bullshit. Period. Anyone trying to fight for Apple on this matter is a fool. Period. I don't care if the TOS says that Linus was in the wrong, because he wasn't. This is literally a company that is too big to fail trying to be extremely greedy and shady about their business practices as of late. Oh and guess what, Apple's CEO is Tim Cook, a guy I share a last name with... and I think he's the douchebag that's forcing all of this to happen with the iphones, ipads, macbooks, imacs, etc. This wouldn't even be an issue if Steve Jobs was still alive. He'd be rolling in his grave. Steve might've wanted to make money but he didn't have to be a selfish greedy son of a bitch to change the industry.

Greetings LTT community, I have a project I am working on in which someone I know wants to change their display configuration. What he has currently are 3 white 32" Spectre monitor/TV's that run at 1080P but the clarity is crap, and the guy is dissatisfied with the way his setup currently is. I mentioned to him that I could probably upgrade his setup by bumping up to a 4K monitor, and now he is ready and roaring for me to come up with a solution because he is complaining about eye strain... Whoever chose these monitors did a poor job of researching their capabilities and so he basically has 3 sh*tty monitors that run his mega super setup. He has indicated that the middle monitor should be the one with the highest resolution and that the monitors to the sides and top won't matter much since his focus would mainly be on the center high resolution one... but it has to fit in between the ones he currently has, AND he wants me to set up a monitor mounting bracket array so that they all float above his glass desk instead of using the legs that they all currently sit on. I've thought about this configuration quite a bit today... I'm not really sure what to do. He is a stickler for his current theme... glass tables, white/silver/gray peripherals, stainless steel and glass towers, and white monitors. Of his 2 stainless steel/glass cases, one hosts a server, and the other hosts a beefy ass setup with 2x GTX 1080's in SLI and some high end i7 cpu. These two GPU's drive his system so that he can edit things with AutoCAD and because of it he is willing to throw another $1000 at a solution here, the challenge is that I have to come up with an elegant solution that works. I spent a couple hours researching all these different monitors, the particular size that he wants is 32" there's no budging there, and the white or silver bezel adds to the difficulty. The market is rather limited for this particular size, a lot of no name brands on the cheaper end (perfect pixel) or some insanely expensive household brands (asus, dell). I thought about getting him into an ultrawide monitor since I truly believe it would really kick ass... but he doesn't want that. I could use some suggestions as I really don't want to choose something that's also going to be crap, I want to be able to give this guy a rock solid solution and any suggestions would go a long way so I don't waste his money either. I hope the diagram doesn't get butchered when I push submit here, but this is the end result of what this guy wants... (1080P) (1080P)( _4K_ )(1080P) -MC