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Automating Hudu Magic Dash

Automating Hudu Magic Dash

The Hudu Magic Dash is, in my opinion, one of Hudu's best and most difficult to use features. Magic Dash enables some awesome ways to highlight certain data and build your own dashboards within Hudu, but it requires the API to use it. As a way to highlight

Prioritizing Windows Network Connections

Prioritizing Windows Network Connections

Windows automatically prioritizes network connections that have multiple routes available based on the the interface speed, for example if you are connected to the same network through WiFi and hard-wire. It may, at times, be necessary to prioritize network traffic out a different interface, for example if you are testing

Getting all Atera agents reporting a specific alert

Getting all Atera agents reporting a specific alert

So due to a recent Atera bug, it seems like a lot of my servers are alerting availability issues, but every time I try to figure it out, the servers are running totally fine. According to Atera the issue appears to be caused by a bad update to the agent

Encoding binary files to include in scripts

Encoding binary files to include in scripts

A common question when building scripts in an RMM like Atera is, "how do I get files that my script needs to the endpoint?" For the most part, I've stored the binary files I need on an Azure file store, Dropbox folder, etc. Any plain text

Using your partner account to connect to client Exchange Online tenants

Using your partner account to connect to client Exchange Online tenants

This is going to be a really quick one, because I'm mostly posting this so that the next time I google it, I get my own blog instead of some StackOverflow posts and what not. With the Exchange Online PowerShell V2 Module, you can use your Partner Delegation

Scripting Office with PowerShell: Finding and Replacing Text in Word Documents

Scripting Office with PowerShell: Finding and Replacing Text in Word Documents

In my last post, I introduced you to to the Office Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) objects and how to use them in PowerShell to automate creating an Outlook rule. In this post, let's take a look at how we can perform another task that can be pretty

Scripting Office with PowerShell: Creating Outlook Rules

Scripting Office with PowerShell: Creating Outlook Rules

One of the really cool things about Microsoft Office is how extensible it is. Microsoft has included scriptable interfaces for all of the Office applications in the form of Component Object Model Objects, or as you may have heard it called: COM objects. The Office COM objects make it possible

Testing Network Bandwidth with PowerShell and iPerf

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 one of the many speed tests sites is useful, but what if you want to automate the process of testing

Monitoring Failover Cluster Patching

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 Aware Updating setup, you'll need to monitor it. First let's get the results of the last

Default switch values

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 add a number of switch options for narrowing tickets down to only tickets with certain status', so

GPOs in 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 GPOs, your company may not be moving to Azure AD with Intune. It might be necessary to just have a

Atera's PowerShell for Automation - Part 3

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, we looked at how to get started with PowerShell, and how to access the strength of the community by accessing

PowerShell Modules - A Beginners Guide - Part 2

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 here. In the first post you learned some basics about the PowerShell language. I hope that it tickled your fancy

Getting Battery Health With PowerShell

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.html The above commands will generate and then open a Battery Report showing a ton of information about your battery health. If you want to be able

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

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

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.

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