Note: If you're interested in Ninja scripts, you will find another blog here with helpful scripts too for NinjaOne at https://mspp.io/ - by my friend and fellow Product Manager Luke Whitelock. This one was slightly harder than I initially anticipated because of how the data is stored, but here's how to achieve this: Creating the Custom Field Go to [...]
After seeing that the MSERT tool by Microsoft (The Microsoft Safety Scanner) detected recent Exchange threats https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsofts-msert-tool-now-finds-web-shells-from-exchange-server-attacks/, I thought it would be prudent as a secondary measure to deploy the tool, scan, and make sure everything across our estate was clean. Although I didn't have that problem in my environment, I thought it acted as a good tool [...]
Did you know that it was possible to poll databases / datasets outside of the Automate database? All that is needed is a System DSN (OBDC Connection) on the agent you wish to query from, and you can then reference that in the following script function: On the agent, open the ODBC Data Source Administrator and go in to [...]
Have you ever been in a position where you have wanted to put together a custom script that triggers when a monitor fails, but you have no idea what variables are passed in to the script from the monitor? It's not like you can debug through this behaviour either as you can't trigger a script as monitor in debug [...]
Happy new year, everybody! Today I am sharing a cool trick that you can use inside the Automate Scripting Engine to prevent scripts from running if the current time falls between a window that you set. This example can be run on any agent. This can be useful in situations where you say don't want a piece of software [...]
If you've ever tried to search for an Automate script with a specific bit of text, or you've wanted to use a scripting function but you have not idea how it should be implemented then this blog post is for you! Finding a real-life example of how a script function is utilised You can perform these searches from literally [...]
Good evening, campers! Before I get into today's post, if you're on LinkedIn I'd love to connect with you. Please feel free to add me, I'll be posting some content on there in the future! https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavin-stone-1938146/ Ever been in a situation where you need to run an Automate script, but don't particularly want to run it against a specific [...]
It is no secret that ConnectWise has had a tough time recently. When you combine sequential critical security vulnerabilities with a seemingly uncertain future for the Automate product, it's going to start worrying some people. As a Managing Partner of MSPGeek, I have what I feel is a distinct insight into the thought processes and decision making of many [...]
This concept really helps when you want to get multiple, individual items outside of a Powershell script and into multiple Automate scripting variables without messing about running a script multiple times to get different outputs. Step 1 In the scripting engine add a script step that does an Execute Script > Powershell. Add the following script in Script to [...]
Following the release today by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (https://www.us-cert.gov/APTs-Targeting-IT-Service-Provider-Customers), one of the steps they recommend is to use tools to detect intrusions and identify compromised systems and that these tool reports on APT (advanced persistent threat) actors using Sogu (also called PlugX) to compromise MSP systems. NCCIC recommends that network defenders use these tools to help [...]
I started working on this as soon as there was a reasonably easy way to detect vulnerable machines on Windows. It includes: A script that you run against agents, which sets EDFs and highlights numerous things (BIOS/Firmware update, notes, whether certain mitigations are enabled and whether you are secure) A Dataview that you can import to have a good [...]
Two of the questions that we get asked often in the LabTech Geek Slack are usually phrased like this: I am trying to map a drive/delete a desktop icon/edit the registry for a user in a script and it is not working How do I run things on the user desktop? The reason number 1 doesn't work is because [...]
A simple method when these are plaguing your script. It hit me again to day in the form of a script that wasn't doing what I expected, it wasn't until I looked at the output in a multi-line view did I see it was throwing in a return character in the middle of a command. You can fix it [...]
For those who have developed LabTech scripts before, especially complex ones, it's sometimes very difficult to debug scripts or even find the certain name of a variable you are looking for. Sometimes you will know the actual value from a script that you need, but not know the variable name. This is further complicated by all the variables not [...]
This may seem something that sounds a little odd, but when you have the requirement for this it makes perfect sense. This is designed for scripts that don't actually need to be run on an agent. Maybe you want to execute a piece of PowerShell code using a LabTech script, or maybe you want to perform SQL queries against [...]
This doozy was issued in June following MS16-072. If you've had any user based GPOs just simply stop working in the past 2 months, it is likely that this is the culprit. Before this update, when a machine was processing its group policy, it used the user context to read the GPO on the DC. This update intentionally made [...]
I've been sharing this script with a few of the people on the LabtechGeek slack (if you are not already a member it is a great community and you can sign up here http://bit.ly/2beGZoW) This particular script came about due to a need to upgrade mass amounts of OpenManage on servers at once. The script does a number [...]
