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Blog 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...

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Blog 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...

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Blog 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...

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Blog 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...

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Blog 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...

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Monitoring 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...

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Monitoring 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...

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Monitoring 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....

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Monitoring 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,...

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Monitoring 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...

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Monitoring 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...

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Deploying 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...

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Automatically 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...

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Running 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...

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Using 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...

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Adding 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...

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Connecting 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...

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Deploy 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...

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Getting 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...

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Using 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...

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