ActiveDirectory, respective LDAP, has a result limit setting, MaxPageSize. Those are set by default to 1000 rows per query. This…
Windows 10 offers various ways to logon to your device. All of them have their pro’s and con’s. One thing…
Ever needed to run speed-tests between your VMware hosts? There is an CLI command iperf3 for this. This command runs…
Windows Print Server Aliases – what is that and why would you even need to think about it? For File-Servers,…
It happens that some programs alert you in Windows 10 about Publisher: Unknown and expect you to possibly provide administrative…
Having multiple applications that act as chat respective IM application but you want Microsoft TEAMS to be the default Instant…
There is at least one group you want to monitor for any membership changes in Active Directory / LDAP –…
Auditing network users against HR lists – a topic that is often overlooked or causes some headache due to e.g.…
PRTG has many standard sensors, but one I was always missing is a daily page count compare. The standard printer…
Ever wondered which user has what license activated and e.g. which specific feature is activated? Recently I was challenged to…
The default PRTG sensor for VPN connections on a Cisco ASA has a limited of 50 users connected, actually less.…
It is a good to know how many of your user accounts are locked out right now… I would go…
RemoteApp and Desktop Connections are quite powerful. Still, it happens that RDS icons configured through your Windows Remote Desktop Application…
The following script was created to bypass an issue in the SOAP API in relation with VMware, hardware vendor drivers…
Lately I had to search a lot through logs – as you can tell by all my postings… I just…
The script below uses the security event log on defined DCs within your Active Directory to export events related to…
It is rather hard to get valuable alarm monitoring from an APC InRow air conditioning unit. The APC A/C’s are…
The SQL script below will show you the summarized database file size and database log file sizes on the current…
The PowerShell script below was design to move Documents, Music, Videos, Pictures, Favorites and Desktop to a sub-folder in a…
Some times it is important to know if a route to a specific target changed. The best way to check…
If you are using multiple web servers and some more advanced DNS configuration like e.g. Round-Robin (and other) to load…
A few weeks ago Paessler published on their blog an article I was part of that talked about a case…
There are various ways and tools to tackle this – in the end it boils down to a few facts…
While rolling out Windows Search Indexing I bumped in to quite a few issues and things I wanted to monitor.…
The Windows Search indexing is a solution from Microsoft that will index your file servers and their files full text…
Raspberry PI can read and write on a Microsoft SQL server database. In order to accomplish this you follow the…
Most file servers are configured to use the Windows internal shadow copies / VSS to allow administrators or even users…
This script is designed for PRTG and will allow you to go through all your RDS hosts and result back…
Microsoft deprecated the SNMP in Windows 2012 (R2). As of Windows 10 1809 respective Windows 2016 this feature is pretty…
Ever wanted to read out the UEFI stored Windows key and probably automatically try to activate Windows with a single…
There is a way to read out and process ALL alerts of your VMware environment using PowerShell and reporting the…
APC network cards – or the NIC of many APC devices like UPS and A/C – possibly even NetBotz (APC…
Due to a request on the PRTG KB of someone needing a single sensor that monitors multiple URLs for their…
Summarize a huge amount of files that have line based columns and data in to a single file with the…
Windows Mangement Remote Mangement / WinRM can be configured as HTTPS / encrypted connection instead of using clear text transfer…
Excel has a feature called Custom Views (ribbon VIEW / CUSTOM VIEW) that is very little known. This feature actually…
This is a PRTG 911 calls sensor script that I wrote a long time ago – it seems like there…
Powershell sometimes can be challenging. One of the more confusing things is collecting data and having them in proper formatted…
The following script will read the UEFI stored Windows licensing key and show it – it then will attempt to…
One of the challenges especially with SQL Express is that you need to enable some protocols on the network level…
An issue or question I see again and again – proper RADIUS logging with Microsoft NPS / Network Policy Server.…
Today I post an updated version of the domain-join script I initially posted here. In theory you can just replace…
Today we look at independent backup networks especially in regards to LTO 7 and VMware ESX hosts. Be aware –…
If you try to PXE boot a VMware guest system that e.g. uses WDS / Windows Deployment Services or similar,…
Every now an then you might need to know who logged on and when was the last logon of which…
File shares are something every IT professional will work with. Many companies have way to complicated and unstructured network file…
The following script allows you to monitor multiple file sizes in one PRTG sensor. It expects you to determine the…
SMBv1 is an insecure protocol that you should not use if by any means possible. Windows 10 has SMBv1 disabled…
If you have a virtual system, like VMware, and a storage device behind it you might be able to mirror…
Windows 2016 or probably even 2012 allows you to create a real load balanced / full failover DHCP server configuration,…
The following script will read through your current Active Directory and filter for user accounts with the following specific conditions:…
Microsoft Office has since a very long time a bug when it comes to copied data from Excel that you…
Public Folders in Microsoft Exchange are one of the most challenging parts in Exchange system administrators can face. Microsoft actually…
One of the challenges with DFS is to monitor the DFS replication backlog. There are various scripts out there to…
In our daily business, we often have the issue that a GPO enforces a screensaver after a certain amount of…
The Outlook signature script you will find below is a bit more complicated then most other scripts I post, cause…
Print servers need to backed up. This is because of two main reasons. One is that users heavily depend on…
Many companies rely on WSUS respective SUS services from Microsoft – aka. Windows Server Update Services as internal source and…
Today’s blog is about “Solution for VSS exceptions with VMware guests / VM tools” and was initially posted by myself…
Today I wanted to share a script with you that allows you to inform your users per email that their…
RADC or RemoteApp and Desktop Connections are very powerful in combination with Windows 7 or newer. You actually can have…
SQL Express is widely used but has huge downside, there is no SQL Agent available. Even Windows internal databases, especially…
Please note – this script was updated – you find the updated post here. One of the challenges in most…
This was originally posted here by myself: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/114863 Solarwinds WebHelpDesk is very powerful, but for those who use Slack as communication…
This was originally posted here by myself: https://kb.paessler.com/en/topic/65026-monitor-shadow-copies-age#reply-247626 This is my solution for it – we monitor specific drives we enabled…
This was originally posted by myself here: https://kb.paessler.com/en/topic/58233-symantec-backupexec-monitoring#reply-262024 We monitor backups a little bit more advanced – I thought I should…
This PRTG slack notification script was originally posted by myself here: https://kb.paessler.com/en/topic/66113-how-can-prtg-send-notifications-to-slack#reply-249147 This is our version of the script originally provided…
Below is a solution rather than a question. Just thought I share it with the rest of the Paessler/PRTG world.…
The following article was originally posted here by myself: https://kb.paessler.com/en/topic/79665-sql-database-backup-monitoring SQL backups and their monitoring is one of the most important…
Our challenge was to have several Paessler/PRTG MAPs (www.paessler.com) cycling through a TV in the IT room. We did not…
PowerShell can be used for TTS / Text-to-Speech. In this specific example, PowerShell will be used for Paessler/PRTG (www.paessler.com) text-to-speech…