Monitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring Office365 admin password changes
So when I was at Dattocon I was approached by an MSP that was using his RMM system to alert on changes of the local admin password, as he wanted to be updated every time a local admin got a new...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring RRAS status.
So for my clients I’ve always relied completely on the Microsoft stack – I do not like most VPN appliances but still want to offer a stable SSL VPN for all clients. Enter SSTP, I’ve blogged about SSTP...
View ArticleFunctional PowerShell for MSPs webinar
Hi all, I hope you’ve enjoyed the webinar. The recording can be found here. I have to admit I was a little nervous due to over 600 attendees! The scripts used during the presentation can be found...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring RDS UPD size
So our clients have RDS deployment, WVD deployments, and just in general VDI-like environments. To make sure their profile can be loaded on each machine without having to set everything up again we...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring Active Directory replication
I’ve often deployed domain controllers in environments that weren’t the most stable due to connectivity issues. To make sure that the domain controllers keep replicating correctly and we detect issues...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring Event log size
Lately I’ve been getting some questions about how to handle event logs when you do not have a SIEM or log collector in place. I like thinking about these situations as I know a lot of MSPs struggle...
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Connect to Exchange Online automated when MFA is enabled (Using the SecureApp...
So in the past months Microsoft has been forcing CSPs and MSPs to use MFA, something I strongly encourage and am glad with. The only issue with this was that Microsoft made this move without...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring disk speed
Sometimes we get complaints from clients reporting “my machine is slow” and not really get any leads to work with. The client just experiences slowness. In most cases this is due to disk speeds – the...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell: User Recycle bin Remediation
I deploy a lot of environments where there is some form of folder redirection – be it classical folder redirection using a GPO or UPD on Windows Virtual Desktop, or even Known Folder Redirection using...
View ArticleMonitoring and Documenting with PowerShell: End of year review
Hi! So this is the final post of this year. I’m going to be enjoying some well deserved holidays and spend Christmas with my family. The past year has been pretty cool. I’ve been doing so many cool...
View ArticleBlog Series: Monitoring using PowerShell: Part four – Using Powershell to...
Hi All, My next couple of blogs will be a series of blogs where I will be explaining on how to use PowerShell for the monitoring of critical infrastructure. I will be releasing a blog every day that...
View ArticleBlog Series: Monitoring using PowerShell: Part five – Monitoring the Windows...
Hi All, My next couple of blogs will be a series of blogs where I will be explaining on how to use PowerShell for the monitoring of critical infrastructure. I will be releasing a blog every day that...
View ArticleBlog Series: Monitoring using PowerShell: Part Six – Monitoring CSV volumes...
Hi All, My next couple of blogs will be a series of blogs where I will be explaining on how to use PowerShell for the monitoring of critical infrastructure. I will be releasing a blog every day that...
View ArticleBlog Series: Monitoring using PowerShell: Part Seven – Monitoring back-ups...
Hi All, My next couple of blogs will be a series of blogs where I will be explaining on how to use PowerShell for the monitoring of critical infrastructure. I will be releasing a blog every day that...
View ArticleBlog Series: Monitoring using PowerShell: Part Eight – Monitoring health with...
Hi All, My next couple of blogs will be a series of blogs where I will be explaining on how to use PowerShell for the monitoring of critical infrastructure. I will be releasing a blog every day that...
View ArticleBlog Series: Monitoring with PowerShell Chapter 2
Hi All, As the last series of blogs was so well received I’ve decided to continue the trend and make some new blogs about monitoring using PowerShell. I’ll be showing some examples on how monitoring...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell Chapter 2: Monitoring Compellent SANs
Hi All, Today we will be focusing on monitoring the Compellent SAN status from a single server, Most Compellents are delivered with Dell’s Co-Pilot functionality and do not require you to monitor it...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell Chapter 2: Monitoring Anti-virus installation status
Hi All, Today we will be focusing on monitoring the anti-virus status of computers or servers that communicate with the Microsoft Security Center, The Security Center WMI Namespace actually has a lot...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell Chapter 2: Monitor RDS Security and Licensing status
Hi All, Today we will be focusing on monitoring the RDS Security layer and licensing status, we often have RDS deployments in which a small oversight happens or the RD-Licensing information is lost....
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell Chapter 2: Monitoring Windows Activation State
Hi All, Today we will be focusing on monitoring the status of the Windows and office activation status, we use an imaging application to supply all of our machines with the correct version of Windows,...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell Chapter 2: Hyper-V replication and remediation
Hi All, As I’ve explained in my previous the series is taking a bit of a turn here and we’re going to start some blogs about remediation instead of just monitoring. I’ll link back to a previous blog...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell Chapter 2: DHCP Pool status
Hi All, As I’ve explained in my previous the series is taking a bit of a turn here and we’re going to start some blogs about remediation instead of just monitoring. I’ll link back to a previous blog...
View ArticleDeploying Auto-VPN or Always-On VPN with SSTP
Hi All, Sorry for the break in blogs about monitoring – I’ve been quite busy with work, so I haven’t had the time to create a monitoring blog. I have been able to create a blog about deploying...
View ArticleAutomatically mapping SharePoint sites in the OneDrive for Business client
Microsoft recently announced that the OneDrive for business client will support automatically mapping SharePoint sites – Which is something I’ve been working on to script for some time now. Automapping...
View ArticleRunning Office365 Powershell scripts cross tenant
When you manage multiple tenants or have a Microsoft Partner account to manage a lot of tenants it often gets annoying having to redeploy the same scripts to each tenant over and over. You can try...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell to check Pwned passwords (Using the HaveIBeenPwned API)
We’ve been encountering a lot of Office365 hacks in the previous months. Most of the time the client does not want MFA enabled and has no clue their password has already been leaked. We figured...
View ArticleAdding Remote App File associations via PowerShell
We have a lot of RemoteApp and RDS deployments out in the field. Sometimes users want to use the RemoteApp to directly open the correctly associated applications, like .docx for Word files. When using...
View ArticleConnecting to all O365 services at the same time in PowerShell (Including...
I often use scripts that uses cmdlets from different modules so I can use all sorts of data sets when handling my Office365 administration tasks. The problem is that I often found myself connecting to...
View ArticleDeploy MFA to all Administrator accounts in all (Partner) tenants
As a MSP we tend to take over a lot of Microsoft tenants which therefore do not have their state of security in order. To make sure that we always use MFA for administration purposes we have an Azure...
View ArticleGetting all alarms of all Unifi sites with PowerShell
For reporting purposes I sometimes like collecting our all alert logs for my Ubiquity Unifi sites. Of course I want this in a nice readable format so I create a HTML file with all output from the unifi...
View ArticleUsing the Secure App Model to connect to microsoft partner resources
This is a quick and dirty blog, as I am quite busy editing our PowerShell Functions to use the secure app model before the deadline of august first. Microsoft has announced that any Microsoft partner...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell Chapter 3: Monitoring MFA-Server and Office365 MFA...
We use both Azure MFA Server to secure our on-site resources, and Office365 MFA for our clients. To make sure we don’t have aggressors changing the MFA settings, or simply administrators forgetting to...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell Chapter 3: Monitoring and remediating Windows...
With the advent of Windows 10 all MSP’s are faced with a new challenge: How do we manage the different Windows 10 Feature versions and how do we make sure we can automatically upgrade our clients to...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell Chapter 3: Monitoring user creation
We all know that bad actors often create accounts for repeat access when they gain access to your network. To make sure that we are aware of these situations we user PowerShell monitoring. For security...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell Chapter 3: Monitoring SSL certificates on IIS
For some clients that still have on-site servers running IIS we have to monitor the SSL status to make sure that things such as the Remote Desktop Gateway, or SSTP VPN are always available. To make...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell Chapter 3: Monitoring network state
Our clients often want us to monitor specific network connections, such as VPN tunnels that need to be online, services that always need to be reachable, or even simply to report on internet connection...
View ArticleDocumenting with PowerShell – New series
Hi All! Starting this week I’ll be blogging about using PowerShell with your RMM/Automation platform and running scripts to collect valuable documentation. I’ll try to keep it as generic as possible...
View ArticleDocumenting with PowerShell: Chapter 1 – Server overview page
In the previous blog I’ve showed how to upload data to IT-Glue by creating a new flexible asset with two fields: a name field on which we perform a match if a document exists, and a field where we...
View ArticleIT-Glue unofficial backup script.
The last couple of weeks I’ve been focused on some API efforts for IT-Glue and was asked by a couple of partners if I couldn’t solve the problem that IT-Glue does not have a backup feature available....
View ArticleDocumenting with PowerShell: Chapter 2 – Documenting Bitlocker keys
Our RMM system currently does not have support to securely store the bitlocker key inside of the RMM system itself. I’ve subscribed to the school of bitlocking everything that passes through my...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring log on of specific users.
Hi Guys, This’ll be the last blog before I go on holidays, So enjoy it and see you all in two weeks. This time we’re going to talk about montoring the logon of specific users. We use named accounts for...
View ArticleDocumenting with PowerShell Chapter 3: Local Administrator Passwords solution
As a good administrator does we always try to change the local administrator password on computers that we hand-out to clients, and disable it, so we only have to enable it when it’s required....
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell: UPS Status (APC, Generic, and Dell)
So we’re using several types of UPS’s at our clients, and sometimes bump into generic USB UPS systems too. To monitor these we use a couple of methods that all have benefits and downsides. Let’s get...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring Office C2R updates
This blog might be a little shorter than normally, I’ve been a bit swamped with work so if you have any questions, let me know! This time we’re going to monitor the update status of Microsoft Office...
View ArticleDocumenting with PowerShell Chapter 5: File share permissions
A lot of our clients struggle with permission management. Some of our clients practically want a daily permissions report to see if anything has changed. To make sure that our client can be sure we...
View ArticleFunctional PowerShell for MSPs (Beginner course)
Hi guys, I’m organising another PowerShell event. Joining the event can be done here. It’ll be a webinar about PowerShell. The session is mostly oriented for beginners, We’ll have a public Q&A and...
View ArticleUsing the Secure Application Model with PartnerCenter 2.0 for Office365.
I was recently informed that my scripts for the secure application model no longer worked. This is due to Microsoft updating the PartnerCenter module with some breaking changes. To make sure you can...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell: The Windows Firewall
In a lot of situations where we take over server management from clients we often see bad security practices, where the client does not understand the inherent risk and just wants everything to work....
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell: External port scanning
So I like knowing exactly what ports are open on my clients network, and have the ability to alert on specific ports that are opened. The problem with most port-scan utilities, and the PowerShell...
View ArticleDocumenting with PowerShell: Bulk edit configurations in IT-Glue
I know last week I said I’d take a break from the monitoring blogs, but a MSP recently requested if I knew a way to mass-edit specific configuration items in IT-Glue. In his case, he was going to...
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