TeamViewer Silent Uninstall and Re-Install
I approved an upgrade to TeamViewer 10 and lost TeamViewer access to a machine from the MAXfocus dashboard. I need to downgrade TeamViewer from 10 to 9 to re-gain compatibility ...
View ArticleChange Service Logon Across Network
I needed to change the Advanced Monitoring Agent service to log on as a domain user rather than as LOCAL SYSTEM. Besides changing the service logon, the domain user must ...
View ArticleRun Ninite Pro with Nice Logs from MAXfocus
I’ve deployed Ninite Pro to update non-Windows applications on computers that I manage. I’m running it in silent mode but I wanted some decent logging so I can review what ...
View ArticleInstall MAXfocus Agent over Network with PsExec
I blogged earlier about how to Install GFI MAX Agent via Startup Script. But what if you want to quickly deploy the agent without rebooting the machine? And someone is ...
View ArticleUpdated PowerShell Script to Show Windows Update Settings
Last year in this article, I posted a PowerShell script to display Windows Update settings. I’ve enhanced that script to show two additional values and to optionally list all pending ...
View ArticlePowerShell Script to Change Windows Update Settings
I’ve already posted a script to show Windows Update settings. What if you want to change the settings? In particular, I needed to be able to use MAXfocus Site Automated ...
View ArticleUninstall and Hide Windows Updates
Sometimes Microsoft releases a bad update via Windows Update. It might be 3035583 that has been released multitple times to to push Windows 10 nag prompts to users. Or 3097877 ...
View ArticlePrint Detailed Windows Update Information
Earlier this year, I wrote about how to show and change Windows Update settings on a machine using PowerShell. But sometimes you need to know more about a Windows update ...
View ArticleSet Up and Download Scripts and Helpers
Scripting is great, but if you manage a bunch of computers, how do you get those scripts and their helper programs onto the computers in the first place? I wrote ...
View ArticleDebugging Scripts in MaxFocus Remote Management
Sometimes a script is failing or timing out when run from the MaxFocus dashboard and you need to duplicate dashboard behavior manually from a command prompt. Here’s how: 1. In ...
View ArticleScript Timing Out in MaxFocus Remote Management
Sometimes a script times out because it really is trying to do more than is possible in the time allowed. But what if a script runs fine in the command ...
View ArticleUpdate TeamViewer ID in MaxFocus Remote Management
On one machine running TeamViewer (not Take Control), the TeamViewer ID changed. Not sure why but it may have to do with having installed a new network card in the ...
View ArticleRun Downloaded PowerShell Scripts
If you downloaded a PowerShell scripts, for example as part of a .zip file, you may see the message [Script name] is not digitally signed. The script will not execute ...
View ArticleLog Off from MaxRM Remote Background
If you need to log a user off of a PC but don’t have remote desktop access to the machine, you can do this from a MaxRM Remote Background window: ...
View ArticleTrack IP History and Alert on Change
I wanted to know how often dynamic IP addresses change, and be alerted when they do. In fact, some colleagues have reported that even “static” IPs are sometimes changed without ...
View ArticleUnlock an Account from the MaxRM Remote Command Line
The MaxRM Remote Command Line presumably operates in the context of the MaxRM agent service’s logon, which by default is SYSTEM. It’s unlikely (or perhaps not possible) to lock out ...
View ArticleScript to Check Current Firewall Profile
As mentioned in this post, I recently had a server unexpectedly show up with a Public firewall profile, which caused database connection issues. I decided to write a little script ...
View ArticleScript to List File Space by Date
After setting up a Network Video Recorder recently (using Milestone XProtect Essentials software), I needed a way to add up and compare how much disk space is being used for ...
View ArticlePowerShell Script to Check and Disable SMBv1
SMBv1 is an old network protocol targeted by the now-infamous WannaCry virus. Although the issue exploited by WannaCry was patched in March 2017, SMBv1 was left enabled by default, leaving ...
View ArticleMalwarebytes Premium Trial Blocks MSP Anywhere
I use Solarwinds MSP Anywhere to connect to client computers. Yesterday from one of my Windows 10 Pro machines, I couldn’t connect to any of them. I’d get a brief ...
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