Monitoring 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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