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Systems Administration VDI

VMware User Environment Manager (UEM) Profile for Autodesk AutoCAD 2017 in VDI

In our Horizon View VDI environment we use UEM to manage some application’s user data. I used the Application Profiler included with UEM to create this profile for AutoCAD. One issue that we we have with AutoCAD is that it will reconfigure when launched by a new user. We tried to capture a default profile […]

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Ergonomics

Experiment: Using the Colemak Keyboard Layout For Two Weeks

Recently I have been investigating using better, more ergonomic computer equipment. To this end, several months ago I purchased an ergonomic keyboard, the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. During my investigation of keyboards, however, I came across a lot of discussion about alternative keyboard layouts, and their various pros and cons, and have decided to […]

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Powershell SCCM Systems Administration Uncategorized

How to Opt-In and Detect to Microsoft Update for other Microsoft products using Powershell

Update 2021-10-07: Updated broken links. Update 2018-03-25: Updated the script to make it more easily runnable from the command line (thanks Grant for the suggestion). I’ve also made the script available from on my Gitlab repo. To run the script from the command line, download it from the Gitlab repo, and then execute like this: […]