Christopher Kibble - My Technical and Personal Ramblings

Recovering Data from Synology Mirror on New NAS

Published by Chris Kibble on June 30, 2020

So, my DS218+ recently died and I picked up a new DS918+. After setting it up with two new 4TB disks, I thought I was going to be able to put my two old 2 TB disks that were setup as a mirror in my old system and just copy the data over, but unfortunately …

Quickly Editing a Microsoft Doc (Video)

Published by Chris Kibble on November 13, 2019

The following 60-second video is the one I demoed at MMS Jazz 2019 to show how to quickly edit a Microsoft Doc without needing to understand Git command line tools or using VSCode.

Better PoSH: Using $PSDefaultParameterValues

Published by Chris Kibble on July 15, 2019

Today’s quick PoSH tip comes from a conversation I had with Kevin Crouch (@PsychoData) and Brett Miller (@BrettMiller_IT), and I got to learn about the $PSDefaultParameterValues variable, which I’d never used before.

Detecting Skype Activity with PowerShell

Published by Chris Kibble on July 11, 2019

I’m working on a project to get a number of drivers updated across an environment. One of the biggest problems is that if we update certain audio, video, or network drivers while the user is in a Skype call, the call will fail. Often in testing I found that reconnecting to the Skype call or …

Better PoSH: Avoid Using += for Arrays

Published by Chris Kibble on July 8, 2019

I’ve found myself hanging around some PowerShell chats lately, and I’ve been picking up on a lot of neat tricks to write better code. This one comes my way via Adam Cook from his blog post on his awesome new function Get-CMUnusedSources (seriously, if you’re a ConfigMgr shop, check it out).