We managed a whole lot of hyper-v servers for our clients, including large clusters but also smaller single server solutions. This makes it difficult to make sure that everyone creates VM’s as they should, and sometimes mistakes are made by engineers or backup software that cause a checkpoint to be left on a production server….
Hi All, After a blog post from Malwarebytes (here) about specific adware and cryptolockers using scheduled tasks to make sure they can remain undetected, or even regain control of the system by running a specific task every once in a while, We’ve decided with to start monitoring the creation of scheduled tasks. Users generally don’t…
Hi All, My next couple of blogs will be a series of blogs where I will be explaining on how to use PowerShell for the monitoring of critical infrastructure. I will be releasing a blog every day that will touch on how to monitor specific software components, but also network devices from Ubiquity, third-party API’s…
During my labbing I’ve noticed I often need to wait for the VM to get online before executing some script or commands, to do that I use the following script: First we get the VM Name, and enter the credentials for that specific VM: $VMName = read-host "Please enter the VM-Name" $VM = get-vm $VMName…
No SCVMM? No problem!