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…
It is a good to know how many of your user accounts are locked out right now… I would go…
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 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.…
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…
Due to a request on the PRTG KB of someone needing a single sensor that monitors multiple URLs for their…
Windows Mangement Remote Mangement / WinRM can be configured as HTTPS / encrypted connection instead of using clear text transfer…
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…
Today I post an updated version of the domain-join script I initially posted here. In theory you can just replace…
Every now an then you might need to know who logged on and when was the last logon of which…
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:…
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…
Many companies rely on WSUS respective SUS services from Microsoft – aka. Windows Server Update Services as internal source and…
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 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…
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…