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…
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Blog Series: Monitoring using PowerShell: Part Six – Monitoring CSV volumes for space and status
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…
Mini-Blog: How to use Azure Functions to run PowerShell scripts
Lately I’ve had a couple of scripts that needed to run on a daily basis, in the past I used the task scheduler on a server for this but that would mean I had to mess around when passwords that expired, and all the other misery that is related to standard scheduled tasks. To…
Free online powershell training
Hi all! After a couple of weeks of silence I have some great news; I will be giving free online powershell courses for beginners and intermediates. Hopefully I’ll be able to assist some of you in questions you have about your own scripts, or scripts you’ve used from my blog. The first course will be…
Mini Blog: Checking processor performance
I haven’t been blogging alot lately, mostly due to renovating at home and having very large projects in the office. To compensate I’ve decided to write some quick mini blogs to make sure I don’t lose the magic 🙂 I’ve found with some application monitoring I’ve been setting up it was required to make a…
Using PowerShell to monitor Backups
We are using a RMM that has integrated BackupExec monitoring. I’ve found that this integrated monitoring was somewhat lacking. It gave us the current job status and that’s about it, Meaning there was not really a way to resolve issues pre-preemptively.
Forcing DFS to prefer the local DC, Without creating subnets and sites
I’ve recently did some temporary work on a legacy-environment for a client. This client recently added some 2012 servers as domain controllers and file servers, The only issue was that there was no way that the client could edit Sites and Services to create correct sites and associated subnets, due to a legacy in-house application…
Search Service crashing on RDS / Server 2012R2
I’ve recently been experiencing many issues with the Windows Search service on Server 2012R2 – The search index service would crash and cause entire RDP sessions to hang whenever typing something in the start menu. Of course on RDS servers this was a major issue and my clients got very upset due to not being…