Notes on security, endpoint management and PowerShell from Jordan Benzing, Director of Security & IT at Patch My PC.https://jordantheitguy.com/https://jordantheitguy.com/tech/patch-treadmill-part-1/https://jordantheitguy.com/tech/patch-treadmill-part-1/Your patch cycle isn't behind by a fixed amount. If your time-to-compliance is longer than the vendor's release interval, you are diverging - and the gap never closes on its own. Here's the arithmetic, using Chrome as the example.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTpatchingvulnerability-managementhttps://jordantheitguy.com/tech/notepad-timeline/https://jordantheitguy.com/tech/notepad-timeline/Notepad++ recently announced a security breach from 2025, but waited to announce it until 2026. Understanding the timeline, of what happened, when and to who are critical questions you need to answer to complete your investigation.Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTsupply-chainincident-responsehttps://jordantheitguy.com/tech/test-trustedpublishers/https://jordantheitguy.com/tech/test-trustedpublishers/How to test to see if the trusted publsiher is configured to allow third party software updates to install/apply.Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMTpowershellsnippetwindows-updatethird-party-patchinghttps://jordantheitguy.com/tech/blogpostsguide/https://jordantheitguy.com/tech/blogpostsguide/Welcome to my guide on how to set up Obsidian as a simple blog site, with a card-style home page built from file properties, Dataview and Templater.Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMTobsidianobsidian-publishbloggingcsshttps://jordantheitguy.com/tech/new-genericvm/https://jordantheitguy.com/tech/new-genericvm/Create a general purpose Hyper-V VM with PowerShell.Sat, 03 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTpowershellsnippethyper-vhomelabhttps://jordantheitguy.com/tech/exchangeonlinemailboxtricks/https://jordantheitguy.com/tech/exchangeonlinemailboxtricks/Common Exchange Online admin gets and sets: mailbox permissions, send as, and calendar permissions.Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTpowershellsnippetexchange-onlinehttps://jordantheitguy.com/tech/enablehyper-v/https://jordantheitguy.com/tech/enablehyper-v/Enable Hyper-V from an elevated PowerShell prompt with one line.Wed, 10 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTpowershellsnippethyper-vhttps://jordantheitguy.com/tech/specificexceptions/https://jordantheitguy.com/tech/specificexceptions/PowerShell does really neat stuff when it trips and falls down. However, not everyone always follows the rules, and sometimes even when people DO follow the rules it doesn't make any sense.Fri, 08 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTpowershellerror-handlingazureadhttps://jordantheitguy.com/tech/gethelp/https://jordantheitguy.com/tech/gethelp/There are only a few things in PowerShell you absolutely must memorize. Regardless of what your skill level in the language is, these are the three things I would suggest you simply commit to memory.Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMTpowershellfundamentalshttps://jordantheitguy.com/tech/enablingpreviewmicrosoftteams/https://jordantheitguy.com/tech/enablingpreviewmicrosoftteams/Learn to enable the new public preview version of Microsoft Teams. This short article covers how to configure a teams admin policy to allow a select set of people in your organization to enable the public preview.Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMTteamsmicrosoft-365https://jordantheitguy.com/tech/cve-2023-23397/https://jordantheitguy.com/tech/cve-2023-23397/On March 14th, a new man in the middle vulnerability was announced. While it certainly wasn't the first of its kind or the last the way information about the update came to light and the fragmented responses of organizations worldwide concern me. It's only going to get worse.Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMToutlookcvekqldefenderhttps://jordantheitguy.com/tech/getsupersedencechainkb-id/https://jordantheitguy.com/tech/getsupersedencechainkb-id/Sometimes when Microsoft, or a third party vendor, releases an update it's useful to track down what update has superseded something. This method lets you get it direct from SQL instead of clicking through the ConfigMgr console.Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMTconfigmgrsoftware-updatessqlvulnerability-managementhttps://jordantheitguy.com/tech/gettimezones/https://jordantheitguy.com/tech/gettimezones/Sometimes you have users in a ton of different time zones. This powershell function is something I use to better help me understand what time it is for my team members around the world.Tue, 30 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMTpowershellfunctiontime-zonesmarkdownhttps://jordantheitguy.com/tech/configmgrclientupdatepowershell/https://jordantheitguy.com/tech/configmgrclientupdatepowershell/Sometimes, it's really useful to update your ConfigMgr client using PowerShell. This is a common little script I use in Demo Labs where there might be multiple Configmgr environments, and management points in the same domain.Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMTconfigmgrclientpowershellhomelabhttps://jordantheitguy.com/tech/findinglog4j/https://jordantheitguy.com/tech/findinglog4j/How to find potentially risk files with LOG4J risksFri, 17 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMTintuneproactive-remediationslog4jpowershellhttps://jordantheitguy.com/tech/failedcontentdownloadadr/https://jordantheitguy.com/tech/failedcontentdownloadadr/Sometimes content goes missing, as a result your automatic deployment rules don't work as intended. Here you will learn how to determine what content is missing, so you can re-aquire the content you need.Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMTconfigmgrsoftware-updatesadrsqlpowershellhttps://jordantheitguy.com/tech/query-defender-for-endpoint-vulnerability-info-part-2/https://jordantheitguy.com/tech/query-defender-for-endpoint-vulnerability-info-part-2/Defender for Endpoint making a Client Secret to access Data, can sometimes be useful if properly controlled. Ideally, you should never use a client secret in production, and instead use a certificate authentication. However, sometimes you just need some data.Mon, 12 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMTdefenderentra-idapp-registrationhttps://jordantheitguy.com/tech/query-defender-for-endpoint-vulnerability-info-part-1/https://jordantheitguy.com/tech/query-defender-for-endpoint-vulnerability-info-part-1/Understanding patch compliance is mission critical task for all organizations regardless of their size or affiliation. What a lot of organizations struggle with is the different between vulnerabilities and patch compliance.Mon, 05 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMTdefenderpowershellapivulnerability-managementhttps://jordantheitguy.com/tech/creatingpowershellprogressbars/https://jordantheitguy.com/tech/creatingpowershellprogressbars/How to create PowerShell Progress bars, and use them in simple code structures.Mon, 24 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMTpowershellwrite-progressloops