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Michael Niehaus

@niehaus.bsky.social
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Tech geek, deployment guy, provisioning expert, device management practitioner, product manager, developer Blog: oofhours.com Socials: gravatar.com/mtniehaus

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Michael Niehaus @niehaus.bsky.social · 46m
A journey with Windows Server 2025 storage oofhours.com/2026/10/04/a...
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A journey with Windows Server 2025 storage
I’ve been doing a lot of scale testing of DeployR over the past couple of months (because building a fast and reliable content download process, especially under significant load, is hard wor…
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/10/2026
Are you kidding me ‼️ Just now at the White House, Trump was asked about the Cornell rape case. He didn’t address the allegations. He attacked Letitia James, calling her “corrupt” and claiming anyone she investigates “won’t get a fair shake.” Trump’s sympathy clearly isn’t with the survivor.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Trump campaigns for Ken Paxton in Texas: "He can be a pain in the ass sometimes, I'll be honest. Is he here, by the way? Oh, there he is. I didn't even know if he was here! I don't care."
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mike Rogers wants to put a data center in your backyard because he's getting rich off of them.
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Michael Niehaus @niehaus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Omnissa and 2Pint Software have entered a new partnership, offering OS deployment and bare metal imaging, bandwidth optimization, and endpoint recovery capabilities to Omnissa customers. www.omnissa.com/newsroom/blo...
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Omnissa + 2Pint: Bare metal to work-ready, faster
Omnissa's reseller partnership with 2Pint adds OS deployment, endpoint recovery, and network optimization to Workspace ONE UEM and Horizon.
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Michael Niehaus @niehaus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hanging out this week at #OmnissaOne in Orlando with the @2pintsoftware.com team.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/09/2026
As wealth concentrates at the top, upper-crust tax rates have declined. Go figure.
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Why billionaires pay much less tax than the average American
As wealth concentrates at the top, upper-crust tax rates have declined. Go figure.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 05/09/2026
It's absolutely not true that we shot all our missiles but we are going to go bananas tracking down who revealed that we shot all our missiles.
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The word is "stole," as in "the American empire invaded and stole the resources of Venezuela" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trump says he has secured a vast U.S. stake in Venezuelan oil industry
The plan involves the United States taking more direct control over Venezuelan reserves as crime and steep logistical challenges discourage private investors.
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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The entirely predicable result of having an anti-vaccine kook in charge of public health in America but Bill Cassidy couldn't work up the nerve to vote against his confirmation.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/08/2026
On March 9, President Donald Trump said the war in Iran was “very complete, pretty much.” That was Day 10 of the conflict. Now it’s nearly Day 180. There has been a long trail of promises that a deal with Iran was close, mixed with threats if it wasn’t. Watch the timeline in Trump’s own words.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It’s no coincidence that Donald Trump ran up enormous debts to banks (well over a billion dollars) in his business too. He defaulted on two multimillion dollar loans. And defaulted on massive debt obligations in *six* corporate bankruptcies. Pity the U.S. doesn’t have a rich daddy to bail us out.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In 1994, I took a lot of heat for this speech warning that the American middle class was in danger. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
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A Warning from 1994 of a Two-Tiered Society | Robert Reich
In 1994, I took a lot of heat for this speech warning that the American middle class was in danger. That was 29 years ag
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/08/2026
George Washington rejected the idea of a massive presidential palace. The White House was deliberately scaled back because the president of the United States should not live like a king. 234 years later, Trump is posting Versailles fan fiction starring himself.
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Mandy Kilpatrick @mandypandaren.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Are we allowing this? Because there is no one with honor or integrity in Congress to stop it....? Is there a way for us to fight this?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Of all the things this ignorant idiot knows nothing about, pretty confident that steam catapults is one of them.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/08/2026
DOGE saved us nothing. In fact, Musk’s little project has cost America dearly. In countless ways, we are much worse off than we were on the day Trump took back the Oval Office and invited the richest man on Earth to come in and break things.
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Elon Musk’s DOGE promised savings, but it's cost us a fortune
A new report from the Government Accountability Office misses the point entirely.
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Buddhism in the wild (photo by Jerry Feldman, Target Honolulu)
View of an end-cap display at Target, with a sign above it saying “Must have!” The shelves are empty.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's honestly so crazy to me that we're facing a technological revolution that could displace millions of jobs in the middle of a housing affordability crisis and every day we talk about whether a trans woman is playing sports or if someone has a non-Anglo name.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This idiotic tweet reminds me of when a friend and I visited Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta. Founded in 1850, it reveals a fascinating history. We noticed how many gravestones were for infants. And for many young sibling dying in the same week. We realized that it was before vaccines and antibiotics.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is the moment we all knew Donald is the type of person who would allow other people to stay on a plane he’d been told was a target for missiles—if it meant he alone was safe.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/08/2026
Newsom: "That $400m Qatari plane? That's not a $400m gift. It cost you $936m. That was what was appropriated as he's cutting food stamps and cutting your Medicaid. He put a billion dollars in the Pentagon budget to retrofit his private plane because that's going with him after the presidency ... "
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Mad_as_hell (Maddie) @maddie-says.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended to gain compliance. The cruelty has always been the point. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Anyone who’s ever had a toddler fall asleep in the back seat knows this look. The kid struggles to stay alert but the somnolence is too strong. The head flips back, then it’s lights out, and now you’re going to either park under a tree or drive aimlessly for the next hour
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Michael Niehaus @niehaus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Monthly upddate traffic: A good reason to update your Windows 11 image monthly oofhours.com/2026/08/10/m...
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Monthly upddate traffic: A good reason to update your Windows 11 image monthly
Out of curiosity, I measured the amount of network traffic generated by Windows Update during a bare metal installation of the OS when there are no updates to install: I was using the 25H2 July WIM…
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/08/2026
Iran says the Strait of Hormuz stays closed until the US lifts sanctions, ends the naval blockade, and pays war damages. The US has gone quiet. This is where things stand, months into a war with no end in sight.
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Trump's Iran war is going backwards
Iran’s demand that the US reopen a key oil shipping lane looks like June’s interim ceasefire deal.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Donald Trump is Commander-in-Chief of the military—nothing else. He isn’t the Commander-in-Chief of Reality.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Local man suggests jailing own boss.
Screenshot of an Aaron Rupar clip of J.D. Vance saying on Fox News: "If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer"
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Trump suddenly furious that he’s surrounded by idiots. Who let this happen?
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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is funniest thing you'll see today. Also, Schiff is very good at this.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/08/2026
So Tillis and Cornyn thought the 1.8. Billion dollar slush fun was so bad, that they will be willing to confirm the guy who came up with it. Huh
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Obviously he has no compunction about making shit up himself, but I do sincerely wonder how much of his understanding of the world is based on subordinates sending him AI imagery he thinks is real.
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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A good friend of mine was a pulmonary ICU nurse in Brooklyn and the thing that made me realize how bad things were gonna get were her instagram stories that went from "wash your hands guys!" to "I saw three people die today" in like a week.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This New York Times article, which ran a week before Christmas last year, didn’t get the attention it deserved. It detailed Trump and Epstein's predatory behavior toward women – “a game of ego and dominance” in which “female bodies were currency.” Here’s a gift link and a thread. 1/6🧵
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‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women (Gift Article)
The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were cur...
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I worry that most cynical among us, hopped up on 30 years of law and order rhetoric, will say "this is the system working: he didn't do anything wrong and now he's free." As if the terror and wide-scale publicity of an arrest and federal prosecution is not a horrible punishment in and of itself.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/07/2026
BREAKING: Pirro has dismissed the case against Davey Hearn for vandalizing the reflecting pool, saying that there's no way vandals could have caused the damage.
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
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Tony Redmond @office365itpros.com · 31/07/2026
Has #Microsoft365 become too complex for mere humans to understand how the ecosystem fits together? Who knows Entra ID, SharePoint, Exchange, Teams, OneDrive, Planner, and Purview (a special challenge) to the level required? It's quite a challenge. office365itpros.com/2026/07/31/m...
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Microsoft 365 - Too Complex for Humans to Understand?
A recent Reddit thread asked the very good question whether Microsoft 365 is now so complex that no single person can understand the ecosystem.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“Iran is a country run by religious extremists, y’all!!!”
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/07/2026
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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/07/2026
Border agents should never be allowed to indiscriminately go through our cell phones, laptops, or any other electronic device. Know your rights.
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Know Your Rights | 100 Mile Border Zone | ACLU
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from random and arbitrary stops and searches. Although the federal government claims the power to conduct certain kinds of warrantless stops within 100 miles of the U.S. border, important Fourth Amendment protections still apply.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/07/2026
He’s commander-in-chief of chaos. Now we’re all victims of Trump’s wars | Nesrine Malik
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He’s commander-in-chief of chaos. Now we’re all victims of Trump’s wars | Nesrine Malik
New tariffs, gas price rises, the deaths of thousands, insecurity … We’re living at the whim of one capricious, vain, easily bored man and his gang of stooges, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
JFK: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." DJT: "Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do to make me obscenely wealth."
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God @thegodshow.com · 27/07/2026
Whether it be Zohran Mamdani or Abdul El-Sayed, the way the establishment nonchalantly kicks into high key screeching Islamophobia whenever a Muslim person runs for public office should be all you need to know about them.
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Grady Booch @booch.com · 26/07/2026
In the fullness of time, LLMs will eventually become commodities and their price will be a race to the bottom.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I love this so much.
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Michael Niehaus @niehaus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Still using WSUS? Patch Tuesday broke it... oofhours.com/2026/07/24/s...
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Still using WSUS? Patch Tuesday broke it…
These AI-inspired large Patch Tuesday updates are causing issues. Having cumulative updates suddenly picking up hundreds of individual fixes per month finally seems to have pushed WSUS over the edg…
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Michael Niehaus @niehaus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
How can Windows 11 keep getting bigger? oofhours.com/2026/07/23/h...
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How can Windows 11 keep getting bigger?
As I do a lot of bare metal deployments, I routinely download the latest Windows 11 ISO from (subscription required, you can also get them from with other subscriptions). And it never fails, they k…
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