Monitoring 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 ArticlePowerShell: Using RunOnce to have script survive reboot
RunOnce is a default windows function that could be used to have scripts survive a reboot. As an engineer that works for a MSP, I tend to come into many different situations and networks for different...
View ArticleHyper-V: Automating installations using exports.
No SCVMM? No problem! In my day to day operations I deploy and migrate to/from Active Directory Domain Services, File servers, and RDS servers on a pretty frequent basis – Most of the time on a single...
View ArticleUsing BEMCLI to automate restores
Backups are fine, but do you perform restore tests? The post Using BEMCLI to automate restores appeared first on CyberDrain.
View ArticleStop AADSync logs from clogging up your servers disk space
I've been rolling out a lot of large AADSync deployments recently - I love how AADSync gives a SSO experience to the SMB markets without having to deploy ADFS. But as always these deployments in SMB...
View ArticleUsing powershell to backup SSH devices (And more!)
I’ve recently been moving to a new RMM product that offers better automation policies than the one I’ve used before. The new RMM product also has the ability to run scripts with in and output from the...
View ArticleManaging Office 365/Azure tenants using powershell
One of the fantastic benefits of having Microsoft partner portal access is the ability to remote manage your clients/tenants. One of the downsides of this is that the partner portal is sometimes...
View ArticleHow to remove “local autodiscover” or SCP when migrating to O365
I work in the SMB, and we migrate most of our clients to Office 365 from local exchange servers. Often we still use a local server for user and computer management and move the users from Small...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell to monitor Backups
We are using a RMM that has integrated BackupExec monitoring. I've found that this integrated monitoring was somewhat lacking. It gave us the current job status and that's about it, Meaning there was...
View ArticleUsing powershell to create a new service
One of our clients has an application which always needs to run in the background, in the past the client resolved this by running the application after logon. Of course this meant after we perform...
View ArticleMini-Blog: finding the windows search database location.
I haven’t been blogging alot lately, mostly due to renovating at home and having very large projects in the office. To compensate I’ve decided to write some quick mini blogs to make sure I don’t lose...
View ArticleMini Blog: Checking processor performance
I haven’t been blogging alot lately, mostly due to renovating at home and having very large projects in the office. To compensate I’ve decided to write some quick mini blogs to make sure I don’t lose...
View ArticleFree online powershell training
Hi all! After a couple of weeks of silence I have some great news; I will be giving free online powershell courses for beginners and intermediates. Hopefully I’ll be able to assist some of you in...
View ArticleMini-Blog: Creating HTML files from CSV
We use a documentation system that only allows CSV exports, which gets annoying when tyring to supply clients with some form of data out of it. To resolve I rewrote the script by Brandon Everhardt to...
View ArticleMini-Blog: How to use Azure Functions to run PowerShell scripts
Lately I’ve had a couple of scripts that needed to run on a daily basis, in the past I used the task scheduler on a server for this but that would mean I had to mess around when passwords that...
View ArticleBlog Series: Monitoring using PowerShell
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 few days...
View ArticleBlog Series: Monitoring using PowerShell: Part one – Using PowerShell to...
Preface: 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...
View ArticleBlog Series: Monitoring using PowerShell: Part two – 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 three – 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 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...
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