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Windows Print Server Aliases

January 13, 2021 Florian Rossmark

Windows Print Server Aliases – what is that and why would you even need to think about it? For File-Servers,…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: dns, print, server, windows

Bypassing Windows 10 UAC for Unknown Publishers

December 8, 2020 Florian Rossmark

It happens that some programs alert you in Windows 10 about Publisher: Unknown and expect you to possibly provide administrative…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: security, windows

Make Microsoft TEAMS the default IM application

October 15, 2020 Florian Rossmark

Having multiple applications that act as chat respective IM application but you want Microsoft TEAMS to be the default Instant…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: gpo, office, Office 365, outlook, profile, Teams, windows

PRTG and Cisco ASA VPN monitoring

March 19, 2020 Florian Rossmark

The default PRTG sensor for VPN connections on a Cisco ASA has a limited of 50 users connected, actually less.…

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Posted in: prtg, Uncategorized Filed under: Cisco, Firewall, monitoring, prtg, SNMP, VPN

RDS – Fix broken local RDS links in start menu

October 3, 2019 Florian Rossmark

RemoteApp and Desktop Connections are quite powerful. Still, it happens that RDS icons configured through your Windows Remote Desktop Application…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: radc, rds

Setting up Windows Search Index

February 9, 2019 Florian Rossmark

The Windows Search indexing is a solution from Microsoft that will index your file servers and their files full text…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: dfs, index, server, windows

Raspberry PI and Microsoft SQL databases

January 31, 2019 Florian Rossmark

Raspberry PI can read and write on a Microsoft SQL server database. In order to accomplish this you follow the…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: database, python, raspberry, script, sql

Shadow copies aren’t accessible – advanced VSS configuration

January 23, 2019 Florian Rossmark

Most file servers are configured to use the Windows internal shadow copies / VSS to allow administrators or even users…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: prtg, server, shadow copy, vss, windows

VMware alert monitoring with PRTG and PowerShell

December 3, 2018 Florian Rossmark

There is a way to read out and process ALL alerts of your VMware environment using PowerShell and reporting the…

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Posted in: powershell, prtg, script, Uncategorized Filed under: powershell, prtg, script, vmware

APC network cards – fix logon issues

November 21, 2018 Florian Rossmark

APC network cards – or the NIC of many APC devices like UPS and A/C – possibly even NetBotz (APC…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: apc, solution

Excel custom views and Excel files that appear different for various users

November 2, 2018 Florian Rossmark

Excel has a feature called Custom Views (ribbon VIEW / CUSTOM VIEW) that is very little known. This feature actually…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: excel, gpo, office

PRTG 911 call alerts – ShoreTel

October 24, 2018 Florian Rossmark

This is a PRTG 911 calls sensor script that I wrote a long time ago – it seems like there…

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Posted in: powershell, prtg, script, Uncategorized Filed under: powershell, prtg, shoretel

SQL Express SQLState 08001 and Error 17

September 10, 2018 Florian Rossmark

One of the challenges especially with SQL Express is that you need to enable some protocols on the network level…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: database, sql

Microsoft RADIUS / NPS SQL logging

September 6, 2018 Florian Rossmark

An issue or question I see again and again – proper RADIUS logging with Microsoft NPS / Network Policy Server.…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: database, logging, radius, server, sql

How to create an independent backup network

September 4, 2018 Florian Rossmark

Today we look at independent backup networks especially in regards to LTO 7 and VMware ESX hosts. LTO 7 and…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: backup, LTO, network, vmware

WDS respective PXE boot and VMware

August 24, 2018 Florian Rossmark

If you try to PXE boot a VMware guest system that e.g. uses WDS / Windows Deployment Services or similar,…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: pxe, vmware, WDS

The advantage of DFS and how to set up a working structure

August 16, 2018 Florian Rossmark

File shares are something every IT professional will work with. Many companies have way to complicated and unstructured network file…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: dfs, filesystem, server

Enable SMBv1 on Windows 10 per GPO

August 3, 2018 Florian Rossmark

SMBv1 is an insecure protocol that you should not use if by any means possible. Windows 10 has SMBv1 disabled…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: gpo, registry, smb, windows 10

Build your own lab environment with VMware

July 31, 2018 Florian Rossmark

If you have a virtual system, like VMware, and a storage device behind it you might be able to mirror…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: nimble, shadow network, snapshot, storage, vmware

Monitor user accounts in Active Directory with PRTG

July 19, 2018 Florian Rossmark

The following script will read through your current Active Directory and filter for user accounts with the following specific conditions:…

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Posted in: powershell, prtg, script, Uncategorized Filed under: active directory, disabled, expired, ldap, powershell, prtg, script, server, users

Inserting tables as pictures

July 16, 2018 Florian Rossmark

Microsoft Office has since a very long time a bug when it comes to copied data from Excel that you…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: copy, excel, helpdesk, office, picture

Monitor DFS replication backlog between servers in PRTG

July 10, 2018 Florian Rossmark

One of the challenges with DFS is to monitor the DFS replication backlog. There are various scripts out there to…

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Posted in: powershell, prtg, script, Uncategorized Filed under: dfs, prtg, replication, server, windows 2012 and newer

Print Server backup script

June 27, 2018 Florian Rossmark

Print servers need to backed up. This is because of two main reasons. One is that users heavily depend on…

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Posted in: script, Uncategorized Filed under: backup, print, server

Solution for VSS exceptions with VMware guests / VM tools

June 25, 2018 Florian Rossmark

Today’s blog is about “Solution for VSS exceptions with VMware guests / VM tools” and was initially posted by myself…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: backup exec, veritas, vmware, windows

SQL Database backup monitoring

June 1, 2018 Florian Rossmark

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…

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Posted in: prtg, Uncategorized Filed under: backup, database, prtg, script, sql

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Recent blog posts

  • Windows Print Server Aliases January 13, 2021
  • Bypassing Windows 10 UAC for Unknown Publishers December 8, 2020
  • Make Microsoft TEAMS the default IM application October 15, 2020
  • Monitor group memberships in Active Directory with PRTG October 13, 2020
  • Auditing network users against HR lists etc. September 25, 2020
  • Monitoring relative printer page counts with PRTG June 17, 2020
  • Office 365 licenses and activated features per user March 24, 2020
  • PRTG and Cisco ASA VPN monitoring March 19, 2020
  • Amount of locked out accounts October 25, 2019
  • RDS – Fix broken local RDS links in start menu October 3, 2019
  • PRTG and VMware 6.7 vCenter host hardware status August 8, 2019
  • Search the Windows Security Eventlog for a string / text August 7, 2019
  • Active Directory password reset events and group change events August 1, 2019
  • APC InRow A/C error monitoring with PRTG July 19, 2019
  • Summarize SQL server database file size information as a single row May 21, 2019
  • Move user Documents and Desktop to OneDrive April 18, 2019
  • Compare a TRACEROUTE against an expected route March 6, 2019
  • Request a DNS based web site directly from an IP address March 6, 2019
  • Using PRTG to monitor manufacturing machines March 6, 2019
  • Find user account lockout events February 20, 2019

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