This is a template in order to send messages to your server to run commands or do checks on the server. I use it on a Ubuntu 18.04 server to trigger LXD backups (Sorry Linux Admins, I was too lazy to rewrite it in Python). Another Telegram "Bot" runs on my little home lab to... Continue Reading →
Windows NTP settings and how to revert to standard settings
If you work with Windows servers and Windows domain controllers in your environment you can relate to this story. From time to time (pun intended) you will stumble over network time protocol (NTP) issues. It can cause you some serious trouble and impact other systems. Here is how to revert everything to a clean slate.... Continue Reading →
Alert yourself, if your System is running out of space
You all know how it feels to run out of space 😉 Well it is not very fun and also not very zen...But installing a heavily oversized monitoring solution for every little test server is also not the zen way. So why not create a little script, alerting you over Telegram telling you how much... Continue Reading →
Simple PowerShell Active Directory group monitoring.
This post is about a simple solution to monitor active directory group changes using PowerShell. Please note, this is not the best practice and will only give you insight about a new member or if a member was removed from a group. The best practice way to monitor group membership changes is to change the... Continue Reading →
How to receive Veeam errors over Telegram
Often when you have installed and configured a system you take a step back and look at the work you did. Everything runs well and looks great. But how do you know if something fails on your newly installed Veeam Backup & Replication server? In this article, I want to show you how to monitor... Continue Reading →
Get-ADUser properties without the Active Directory Module
I stumbled over this topic while creating a script on client PCs. The script was relying on information stored in the active directory and was running in the logged in users context. Due to limitations on the client machine, I was not able to install the windows feature "Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell" on... Continue Reading →
Automatic offline backup with Veeam and PowerShell
This post will teach you how to setup Veeam to create a Backup Copy Job to a Disk and how to automatically disconnect it after finishing the job. A scheduled task will alarm at a set frequency and remind you to do your offline backup Table of Contents PrerequisitesCreating the Veeam backup copy jobCreating a... Continue Reading →
