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Forum Post: Re: How to audit new AD user creations?

By SMason

One way to accomplish this is to flip on "Audit account management" in the Local Security Policy. From there, all you need is an event set on the Security log for ID's 624 and 4720. More

Posted onMay 20, 2013

in Forum - Alerts

Forum Post: Re: Legacy Remote Control ActiveX not Working in IE9

By SMason

In my case, this started happening after I upgraded to IE10. I had to delete the "kaxRemote.dll" and all "CONFLICT.x" folders under "Downloaded Program Files" to get it working

Posted onMay 13, 2013

in Forum - Remote Control

Forum Post: Re: Getting logged out of the VSA ramdomly

By SMason

I've had two engineers report this problem recently. One speculation is the inactive timeout ignores whether or not their session is active.

Posted onMay 1, 2013

in Forum - Kserver Discussions

Forum Post: Re: Looking for better method of patch rebooting

By SMason

For workstations, I am a big fan of "ask - reboot if no response in X minutes". More aggressive, but more efficient. Realistically, the computer is only going to need a reboot once or twice a

Posted onApr 30, 2013

in Forum - Patch Management

Forum Post: Re: Windows 8 Patch Management: Installing the Microsoft Update Catalog

By SMason

Also, I just tested the script I linked above on a fresh Windows 8 install. Microsoft Update was enabled immediately.

Posted onApr 26, 2013

in Forum - Patch Management

Forum Post: Re: Windows 8 Patch Management: Installing the Microsoft Update Catalog

By SMason

I was able to find this, although I have not tested it: msdn.microsoft.com/.../aa826676(v=vs.85).aspx

Posted onApr 25, 2013

in Forum - Patch Management

Forum Post: Re: Install KES or KAM from agent procedure?

By SMason

I remember somebody from Kaseya mentioning automated installs weren't supported due to licensing concerns. I don't like that excuse though. Prior to upgrading to KES 2.3, I had recreated the system

Posted onApr 24, 2013

in Forum - Scripts & Agent Procedures

Forum Post: Re: Continuing script after a restart

By SMason

Create two scripts: one for steps 1-3 and one for steps 4-6. In the first script, add a step to schedule the second one for a minute later just before the reboot step.

Posted onApr 24, 2013

in Forum - Agent Discussions

Forum Post: Re: Script to test RAID health?

By SMason

For HP, check out "HP ProLiant Array Diagnostics" which has a CLI version: h20566.www2.hp.com/.../swdDetails Install that anywhere and grab the "bin" folder at: C:\Program Files (x86

Posted onApr 23, 2013

in Forum - Scripts & Agent Procedures

Forum Post: Re: Script to check Windows Activation status

By SMason

FYI - The WMIC command in use by Daniel's script also returns other Microsoft products that require activation. That could skew results if you're only looking for Windows. We can get around that

Posted onApr 18, 2013

in Forum - Scripts & Agent Procedures

Forum Post: Re: Script to check Windows Activation status

By SMason

Yessss. Use danielk's method. Much better.

Posted onApr 18, 2013

in Forum - Scripts & Agent Procedures

Forum Post: Re: Script to check Windows Activation status

By SMason

cscript.exe //Nologo %WINDIR%\system32\slmgr.vbs /dli | find "License Status:"

Posted onApr 17, 2013

in Forum - Scripts & Agent Procedures

Forum Post: Re: Elevated Command Prompt Script?

By SMason

Run as SYSTEM and you won't need credentials at all. The Local System account trumps UAC and all of that madness.

Posted onApr 4, 2013

in Forum - Scripts & Agent Procedures

Forum Post: Re: Remote Control - Kaseya's own version

By SMason

...but how many times were you not glad? ;-)

Posted onApr 4, 2013

in Forum - Live Connect (KLC)

Forum Post: Re: Anyone have a good Procedure/Script to rename a domain joined computer?

By SMason

All of this effort to rename computers makes me sad. What is there really to gain? I always tell people to leave the computer names alone. There are so many other ways to take inventory of users, parts

Posted onMar 28, 2013

in Forum - Scripts & Agent Procedures