Some silly little powershell notes from a silly little man.

Mapping network printers

This one is super duper straightforward. Can probably use it remotely through the command line option on a UEM (Unified Endpoint Management) tool.

Add-Printer -ConnectionName \\printer-server\PRINTERNAME

Fetching an installer from a URL and install it

This one we create a temporary directory, set the URL where the installer can be located, download, then install it. If there’s any switches you want applied to the installer, place them after the /i <installer> portion.

My personal laptop died. I acquired a secondhand Dell Latitude 5285. The specs (i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD) aren’t as fancy as they could be, but the price was right.

I initially tried to install Windows 11 to determine if the device was entirely functional, as one does with a used device. It seems the i5 isn’t a supported generation, though. So back to good ol’ Windows 10. Which worked great during testing! As I’m a self-described Linux fan, I then proceeded to install and setup Linux Mint Debian Edition like I run on my old laptop and my current desktop.