In this article, we will look at configuring the Zabbix Agent to retrieve monitoring data from PowerShell scripts. Let’s look at two PowerShell scripts to get some data into Zabbix. The first returns the number of active RDP user sessions on a Windows RDS server, and the second returns the number of days since Windows updates were last installed on the server.
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2019Windows Server 2022
Tracking Printer Usage with Windows Event Viewer Logs
March 12, 2024In Windows, you can track printer usage with the Event Viewer. All print jobs sent to the print spooler are logged in the Event Viewer. If you have a print…
- Azure and Microsoft 365ExchangePowerShell
PowerShell: Configure Certificate-Based Authentication for Exchange Online (Azure)
March 17, 2024Microsoft Entra ID (ex Azure AD) supports Certificate Based Authentication (CBA). This means that you can use certificate authentication to automatically run your PowerShell scripts with no password entry and…
According to the official VMware documentation, reinstalling ESXi from scratch is the only supported way to reset the root password (https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1317898). You can also reset your password using Host Profiles…
- Azure and Microsoft 365PowerShell
How to Query and Change Teams User Presence Status with PowerShell
March 11, 2024It may be necessary to check the user’s presence status (Online/Away/Busy) in Microsoft Teams before performing a particular action for some integration scripts. Let’s have a look at how to…
If you have Ubuntu Linux virtual machines, it is highly likely that you will need to expand your virtual hard disk and increase the partition in the guest OS. By…
Ansible is the popular free open-source configuration management system used primarily to manage Linux hosts. This article describes how to use Ansible to remotely manage the configuration of Windows servers…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows 11
Installing Language Pack in Windows 10/11 with PowerShell
September 20, 2023In modern versions of Windows 11 22H2 and Windows 10 21H2+, you can use PowerShell to install and manage language packs and language interface language packs (LIPs). In previous builds…
- Azure and Microsoft 365ExchangePowerShell
Configure Email Forwarding for Mailbox on Exchange Server/Microsoft 365
March 15, 2024In Exchange Server and Exchange Online (Microsoft 365), you can enable email forwarding at the mailbox level (configured by the administrator using the ForwardingAddress attribute), through mailbox Inbox rules, or…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows 11Windows Server 2019
How to View and Change BIOS (UEFI) Settings with PowerShell
September 13, 2023You can use PowerShell to view or change BIOS/UEFI settings on a Windows computer. In this article, we will look at how to use Windows PowerShell to get or change…