Christopher Kibble - My Technical and Personal Ramblings

Calling sendmail from PowerShell on Linux

Published by Chris Kibble on April 3, 2019

I haven’t blogged about it a lot, but I am trying to learn what I can about PowerShell on Linux. I feel like more and more services are headed to the cloud, and (even in Azure) will be able to run on Linux devices. Being able to write portable scripts to move between what I …

Migrating Away from an SCCM CAS (Part 1)

Published by Chris Kibble on March 25, 2019

Hi, my name is Chris, and my ConfigMgr environment has a CAS. This will be one of my few multi-part blog posts, mostly because it’s going to take a me a lot of time and a lot of testing to do things right. Once the series is complete, hopefully you’ll have an understanding on how …

Getting the Email Address of all Configuration Manager Users

Published by Chris Kibble on February 20, 2019

The following short and sweet snippet of PowerShell will extract the list of admins from your SCCM environment and then get their email addresses. At the end, you can dump $email into a text file, or perhaps set it to your clipboard to paste into Outlook.

Inventory of Missing and Disabled Configuration Manager Users

Published by Chris Kibble on February 18, 2019

I wrote the following script to inventory the administrative users of my Configuration Manager (SCCM) environment as they relate to Active Directory. The end result is a list of users who no longer exist in Active Directory, users who are in Active Directory but disabled, and users who are granted rights in multiple ways (e.g. …

PowerShell Script to Query YNAB API

Published by Chris Kibble on February 11, 2019

In a post last week, I talked about how I’ve begun using YNAB in 2019 to manage my finances. As soon as I learned there was an API, you know I had to dig in and see what it could do. Below I’ve posted a short PowerShell script to query all credit cards and lines …