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Tag: windows

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

Find user account lockout events

February 20, 2019 Florian Rossmark

There are various ways and tools to tackle this – in the end it boils down to a few facts…

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Posted in: powershell, script Filed under: account, active directory, domain controller, eventlog, filter, lockout, powershell, windows

Windows Search Index monitoring

Florian Rossmark

While rolling out Windows Search Indexing I bumped in to quite a few issues and things I wanted to monitor.…

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Posted in: powershell, prtg, script Filed under: index, powershell, prtg, windows

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

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

SNMP was deprecated

December 27, 2018 Florian Rossmark

Microsoft deprecated the SNMP in Windows 2012 (R2). As of Windows 10 1809 respective Windows 2016 this feature is pretty…

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Posted in: powershell Filed under: DISM, powershell, regedit, security, SNMP, windows

Read the UEFI stored Windows key and activate Windows

December 11, 2018 Florian Rossmark

Ever wanted to read out the UEFI stored Windows key and probably automatically try to activate Windows with a single…

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Posted in: powershell, script Filed under: key, license, powershell, UEFI, windows

Read the UEFI stored Windows key and activate Windows

October 4, 2018 Florian Rossmark

The following script will read the UEFI stored Windows licensing key and show it – it then will attempt to…

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Posted in: powershell, script Filed under: powershell, UEFI, windows

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

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

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

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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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