Dave Long

Testing Local Network Performance with iPerf

In my last iPerf post, I showed how you can use iPerf to test internet speed using a server that I host in Azure. This is really handy when you

powershell

Testing Network Bandwidth with PowerShell and iPerf

One of the first steps to diagnose network issues, especially nowadays when so many people are working from home, is to run a speed test. Testing speed by going visiting

powershell

Monitoring Failover Cluster Patching

Windows Failover Clustering is a great way to run services like DHCP, Hyper-V, etc. resiliently. Microsoft makes it easy to schedule patching using Cluster Aware Updating. Once you have Cluster

powershell

Default switch values

While working on some updates to the PSAtera module, I came across an interesting situation that didn't seem to have a straightforward answer. The new updates to the Get-AteraTickets command

powershell

GPOs in PowerShell

As more and more companies are taking the serverless route to running their business, GPOs are becoming a thing of the past. While Intune can do a lot to replace

Atera

Mapping Networks with PowerShell

Part of maintaining clients is keeping track of the various networks involved in managing that client. It's important to know where computers are on the network to be able to

powershell

Atera's PowerShell for Automation - Part 3

This post was written as part of a series for Atera, the PSA and RMM product we use at Cage Data. In the first and second posts in this series,

powershell

PowerShell Modules - A Beginners Guide - Part 2

This post was written as part of a series for Atera, the PSA and RMM product we use at Cage Data. The first post in the series can be found

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Getting Battery Health With PowerShell

If you want to see an overview of your battery health, the easiest way is with powercfg: powercfg /batteryreport /output batteryreport.html .\batteryreport.htmlThe above commands will generate and then

Atera

Getting Atera Custom Fields in Scripts

On a Reddit post recently someone asked how they might get the value from an Atera Custom Field on a customer from within a script on an agent. It's actually pretty easy using the PSAtera module. A great use case for this is installing

ubiquiti

Enabling SSH to a UniFi Gateway Remotely

Sometimes its necessary to work on a UniFi networking issue directly on the Security Gateway, but what if you don't have a jump box on the network to connect to

Atera

Scripting Sound Output in Splashtop

One of the most frustrating default settings in Splashtop, the remote access agent used in Atera, is that when you connect to a remote system the sound output is carried

powershell

Creating a VPN connection with RMM

Now that everyone is working from home, you might find yourself needing to rapidly setup VPN connections on a ton of machines at once. Rather than connecting to every users computer to setup the VPN, or relying on users to follow a guide to

Patch Tuesday with Atera

After the release of Microsoft's round of patching yesterday, some of the patches look to be pretty important security patches. Atera's Patch Search & Deploy report makes finding and deploying KBs to systems that need these patches quick and easy. To start, I created

AzureAD

Fixing Primary Email Address with Azure AD Connect

I had a ticket come across my desk today for a user who's email was coming from her onmicrosoft.com address instead of what her email address should be. Upon looking, I found that her Primary Email Address was indeed wrong. The client's using

powershell

Get oldest item in everyone's mailbox

Recently, I had to handle a client that wanted people to keep small mailboxes. While working on setting up the retention policy to automatically remove emails older than a certain date for everyone, I wanted to be able to easily see if the policy

Salesforce

Formatting Time in Salesforce

While working on a Salesforce project, I found that I needed to format a time field from an object into VisualForce email templates and a couple VisualForce pages. The VisualForce page wasn't very difficult as I could just pass an Extension to the <

Adding PC to JumpCloud from Atera

If you're like me, you have a thumbdrive that you keep with you that has most of your scripts for setting up a computer or utilities that need to get installed. After running out of space on my thumbdrive and wanting other people in

powershell

Getting inactive users in Active Directory

Users who should have been removed from active directory but weren't is one of the most common issues that comes up in a network assessment for new clients. Often times companies simply forget to notify their IT provider that someone has been let go,

powershell

Installing Printers with PowerShell

Whenever possible stick to a single manufacturer for printers at clients. It makes it so installing them from your RMM is as easy as a single script with a single driver. The first step to installing a printer is to setup the driver for

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