It’s always the simple questions that take me down rabbit holes. In this case, it’s a simple question: Is an A+ certification worthwhile for someone wanting to get a job in IT? […]
Off on a tangent: Is a CompTIA A+ certification worth it?
Samsung Magician won’t launch? Here’s a simple fix
If you’ve ever installed the Samsung Magician software to check to see if your Samsung SSD’s need firmware updates, you might have seen an annoying behavior: You might have an older version, […]
The mysterious case of broken time sync
Today was kind of weird — after having a brief conversation about time sync during OOBE that brought back a bunch of memories, touching on a blog that I did talking about […]
Replacing the hard drive in a Tivo
It’s a little off topic, but it ties in some of the Secure Boot topics that I had discussed previously, and might be useful to anyone trying such a maneuver in the […]
Tech-related podcasts to follow
Initially, I started listening to podcasts for a way to relax during the daily commute. Then that daily commute disappeared (permanently for me, but I suspect many others will eventually return to […]
So long, and thanks for the Coke Zero
It might be a corny take on the Douglas Adams book title and quote, but there is a point to it. Friday was my last day working for Microsoft. In these odd […]
30 years in the industry, many more to go…
It occurred to me over the summer that I missed a significant milestone: As of May 2020, I had been working in IT and technology for 30 years. That started with my […]
The https://OofHours.com one-year anniversary
The first post on the new https://oofhours.com website was exactly one year ago today. Since then, I’ve done 125 posts amounting to a total of 82,000 words, with 600,000 views in total. […]
Year in review: Random blog statistics
With my blog hosted through WordPress.com, there are all sorts of analytics available to tell me the blogs I’ve posted and the people that are reading them. Here are some interesting tidbits […]
Year in review: Samples, scripts, tools
Some of the blogs that I’ve posted are tied to scripts posted to the PowerShell Gallery or tools published to GitHub (or sometimes a combination of the two). In the case of […]
Year in review: Blog posts
It’s been a fairly busy year for blogging, crossing three different blog platforms. First there was https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mniehaus, with two posts in January 2019: USB media and Windows Information Protection. If you’ve implemented […]
It’s only a matter of time…
Somewhere around 15 years ago, I can remember building out an Exchange 2003 infrastructure – unpacking boxes, setting up servers (I still have my trusty toolkit – can’t assemble servers without a […]
Self-serving post: Follow my blog from Outlook
If you are like me, you live and breathe through Outlook – it’s the center of my work world, enabling me to rapidly sift through obscene amounts of e-mail effectively. (You might […]
Out of Office Hours 