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Text-To-Speech using PowerShell

September 16, 2022February 2, 2023 / Harm Veenstra / 2 Comments

Just a little fun thing for a Friday, text-to-speech! We used this many years ago at the office, sending this to the laptop of a colleague and having fun while he's trying to figure out where the voice is coming from 🙂

Create a focus time countdown clock using PowerShell

August 14, 2022February 2, 2023 / Harm Veenstra / Leave a comment

Sometimes you need to finish something, and notifications from your running programs keep taking away your focus... You can try using the script in this blog post to keep focused on your task. When the count-down timer is done, your programs will be available again. Hope this helps 🙂

10.000 views and a bit of personal history

July 25, 2022February 2, 2023 / Harm Veenstra / 2 Comments

First of all, I would like to thank you all! Thanks for visiting my site and responding to things I post here and on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and GitHub. 10K views from March until now and just above 5,5K visitors. Happy to see these numbers! In this blog post, I will tell you some more things about me and why I like PowerShell 🙂

Get a Message Of The Day in your PowerShell session

July 4, 2022February 2, 2023 / Harm Veenstra / Leave a comment

Sometimes you need an excellent inspirational quote to get some motivation 😉 In this blog post, I will show you how to get one each time you start a new PowerShell session.

Get a random 9GAG item in your browser using PowerShell

May 19, 2022February 2, 2023 / Harm Veenstra / Leave a comment

Brighten up your day when starting a new PowerShell session by... Getting a 9GAG item (Picture/movie clip) in your browser 🙂 I was working on parameter sets and got side-tracked into this script. Start it, and you will receive a random category 9GAG post in your browser unless it's NSFW because you wouldn't want that .. Right? 😉

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  1. Harm Veenstra on Adding printer drivers and printers using Microsoft Intune and PowerShellMarch 30, 2023

    😁 True, true

  2. innermotion on Adding printer drivers and printers using Microsoft Intune and PowerShellMarch 30, 2023

    Great Stuff, Really useful well crafted scripts. Now our T1 techs can build out Intune packages without many issues. Also…

  3. Harm Veenstra on Adding printer drivers and printers using Microsoft Intune and PowerShellMarch 29, 2023

    Thank you 😊 yes, it's a simple solution to install printers that doesn't require any additional subscriptions 😅 And yes,…

  4. Mekkel Richards on Adding printer drivers and printers using Microsoft Intune and PowerShellMarch 29, 2023

    This is an incredible post. Very well written and easy to follow. We have been looking for a printer deployment…

  5. Harm Veenstra on Adding printer drivers and printers using Microsoft Intune and PowerShellMarch 17, 2023

    I usually download and extract a specific printer driver, then I start my Windows Sandbox (Or another VM or your…

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