Invoke PowerShell from the Command Line with Parameters
There don’t seem to be too many examples of invoking PowerShell from the command line when the PowerShell command itself has parameters. Here’s one that should work (with a line …
Can’t Email Essentials Health Report Since Daylight Savings Time
In the U.S., daylight savings time ended on November 2 at 2:00am. Which means that at 2:00am, it was suddenly 1:00am. At that moment, Essentials lost its ability to send …
GFI Script to Show Who Is Logged in Locally
GFI workstations only check in every 30-60 minutes, but it would still be helpful to see if anyone was logged on to a workstation at the most recent check-in. If …
GFI Script to Show Windows Update Settings
I wanted to be able to quickly check the Windows Update settings for a bunch of workstations using the GFI MAX RemoteManagement dashboard. I didn’t want to change the Windows …
Monitor a Cisco RV320 Using SNMP
So far I haven’t been able to find documentation or a MIB file for the Cisco RV320. However using GetIf and the RV0XX MIB, I managed to dig out some …
Use Process Monitor to Find Event 4625
A Server 2012 R2 Essentials machine recently started generating logon error 4625 four times every five minutes. I realized that the times matched the times that my monitoring software checks …
WinInit.exe Stealing Port 5000
On a Server 2012 R2 machine, I couldn’t figure out why WiniInit.exe, which loads at Windows startup, was using port 5000, which I wanted to use for an application. My …
SMTP Smarthost to Office 365 and Gmail
I use the Windows SMTP service to relay some mail to Office 365 and, from another site, to Google Apps Gmail. Here are some notes and links on both.
Windows SMTP Service Not Sending Messages
On a Server 2012 R2 Essentials machine, I set up the SMTP service with a smart host to relay messages. The setup was identical to a working setup at another …
DHCP Reservations on a Cisco RV320
The Cisco RV320 router lets you bind a MAC address to an IP address. Normally you would think that would reserve the address for assignment via DHCP, but the documentation …