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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 Sophos Anti-Virus on an

Enabling SSH to a UniFi Gateway Remotely

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 it through? Enable SSH from the controller! Before you start, you'll want to know your public

Scripting Sound Output in Splashtop

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 over to the computer you're connecting from. Which means whatever music they're listening to, phone call

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 setup the VPN themselves and figuring

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 a spreadsheet

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 Azure AD

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 was taking effect across all folders.

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 <apex:page /> tag,

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 the company to be

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, or the ticket kept

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 it. My script uses the HP