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Tag: script

ActiveDirectory/LDAP result limits – MaxPageSize

April 7, 2021 Florian Rossmark

ActiveDirectory, respective LDAP, has a result limit setting, MaxPageSize. Those are set by default to 1000 rows per query. This…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: active directory, automate, ldap, performance, powershell, script, security, server, windows

Monitor group memberships in Active Directory with PRTG

October 13, 2020 Florian Rossmark

There is at least one group you want to monitor for any membership changes in Active Directory / LDAP –…

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Posted in: powershell, prtg, script Filed under: account, active directory, ldap, monitoring, notification, powershell, prtg, script, security

Monitoring relative printer page counts with PRTG

June 17, 2020 Florian Rossmark

PRTG has many standard sensors, but one I was always missing is a daily page count compare. The standard printer…

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Posted in: powershell, prtg, script Filed under: powershell, printer, prtg, script, SNMP

Office 365 licenses and activated features per user

March 24, 2020 Florian Rossmark

Ever wondered which user has what license activated and e.g. which specific feature is activated? Recently I was challenged to…

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Posted in: powershell, script Filed under: active directory, Office 365, powershell, script

PRTG and VMware 6.7 vCenter host hardware status

August 8, 2019 Florian Rossmark

The following script was created to bypass an issue in the SOAP API in relation with VMware, hardware vendor drivers…

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Posted in: powershell, prtg, script Filed under: hardware, monitoring, powershell, prtg, script, status, vmware

Search the Windows Security Eventlog for a string / text

August 7, 2019 Florian Rossmark

Lately I had to search a lot through logs – as you can tell by all my postings… I just…

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Posted in: powershell, script Filed under: eventlog, powershell, script, security

APC InRow A/C error monitoring with PRTG

July 19, 2019 Florian Rossmark

It is rather hard to get valuable alarm monitoring from an APC InRow air conditioning unit. The APC A/C’s are…

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Posted in: powershell, prtg, script Filed under: apc, monitoring, powershell, script, SNMP

Move user Documents and Desktop to OneDrive

April 18, 2019 Florian Rossmark

The PowerShell script below was design to move Documents, Music, Videos, Pictures, Favorites and Desktop to a sub-folder in a…

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Posted in: powershell, script Filed under: migrate, Office 365, onedrive, powershell, profile, script, user

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

Monitor the total amount of sessions on your RDS farm

January 14, 2019 Florian Rossmark

This script is designed for PRTG and will allow you to go through all your RDS hosts and result back…

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Posted in: powershell, prtg, script Filed under: powershell, prtg, rds, script, sessions

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

Monitor multiple website certificates with a single PRTG sensor

November 9, 2018 Florian Rossmark

Due to a request on the PRTG KB of someone needing a single sensor that monitors multiple URLs for their…

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Posted in: powershell, prtg, script Filed under: certificate, powershell, prtg, script, website

Consolidate many line based .CSV files in to a single .CSV with one header line and per file data lines

Florian Rossmark

Summarize a huge amount of files that have line based columns and data in to a single file with the…

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Posted in: script Filed under: script

Secured WinRM SSL session and PowerShell WinRM queries – example with a PRTG sensor for CPU, HDD and RAM

November 8, 2018 Florian Rossmark

Windows Mangement Remote Mangement / WinRM can be configured as HTTPS / encrypted connection instead of using clear text transfer…

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Posted in: powershell, prtg, script Filed under: https, powershell, prtg, script, security, ssl, winrm

Updated domain join script including KeePass / Pleasant Password server entries for local admins

September 6, 2018 Florian Rossmark

Today I post an updated version of the domain-join script I initially posted here. In theory you can just replace…

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Posted in: powershell, script Filed under: active directory, domain, keepass, password, pleasant, powershell, script

Gathering profile information from computer

August 20, 2018 Florian Rossmark

Every now an then you might need to know who logged on and when was the last logon of which…

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Posted in: powershell, script Filed under: computer, powershell, profile, script, windows, wmi

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

Prevent ScreenSaver coming up with a PowerShell script

June 29, 2018 Florian Rossmark

In our daily business, we often have the issue that a GPO enforces a screensaver after a certain amount of…

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Posted in: powershell, script Filed under: powershell, prevent, screensaver, script, security, windows

Automate Outlook signature roll outs while pulling the information from Active Directory / LDAP

June 28, 2018 Florian Rossmark

The Outlook signature script you will find below is a bit more complicated then most other scripts I post, cause…

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Posted in: script Filed under: active directory, outlook, script, signature

Automate your SUS clean up

June 26, 2018 Florian Rossmark

Many companies rely on WSUS respective SUS services from Microsoft – aka. Windows Server Update Services as internal source and…

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Posted in: powershell Filed under: cleanup, database, performance, powershell, script, server, sus

Script to remove RemoteApp and Desktop Connections

June 20, 2018 Florian Rossmark

RADC or RemoteApp and Desktop Connections are very powerful in combination with Windows 7 or newer. You actually can have…

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Posted in: script Filed under: cleanup, rds, script

Script based SQL Express backups

June 19, 2018 Florian Rossmark

SQL Express is widely used but has huge downside, there is no SQL Agent available. Even Windows internal databases, especially…

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Posted in: script Filed under: backup, database, script, server, sql

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

  • ActiveDirectory/LDAP result limits – MaxPageSize April 7, 2021
  • Reset or Remove the Windows Hello PIN March 22, 2021
  • VMware hosts network speed tests with iperf March 9, 2021
  • 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

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