Go Postal – Exchange Report Manager plugin for LabTech

Go Postal Microsoft Exchange Report Manager

Go Postal is a Microsoft Exchange 2007, 2010 and 2013 reporting plugin for LabTech that uses Powershell to generate reports on each Exchange server being managed by the LabTech RMM platform. The plugin searches all systems for Exchange server software and if it finds a compatible system it adds it to the list of Exchange servers. By selecting an Exchange server you can request the report from that Exchange server in real time and it will retrieve that report directly from the exchange server.

Plugin can be viewed on the Dashboard -> Config -> Integration -> Going Postal

Selecting the View Menu from the main menu bar and selecting Go Postal.

What you will get when running the script, is an overall overview about:

1. Exchange Servers in your organization
[Break down by AD Site]
[Info about External and Internal Web services names]
[Mailbox Count per AD Site]
• O.S version
• O.S Service Pack level.
• Exchange Service health.
• Up time in days.
• Exchange Version.
• Exchange Service Level.
• Exchange Rollup Update Information.
• Exchange Role(s).
• Number of mailboxes in case of MBX role.

2. Database Full Inventory
[Break down by DAG]
[Separate Table for Recovery DBs]
[Separate Table for Non DAG DBs]
[Table per DAG]
• DB Name.
• Server Location.
• Mailbox Count.
• Average Mailbox Size.
• Archive Mailbox Count.
• Average Archive Mailbox Size.
• Mount Status.
• DB Size.
• Storage Group Name (Pre E2010).
• White Space.
• Circular Logging.
• DB Disk Free Percentage.
• Log Disk Free Percentage.
• Last Full Backup Date.
• Backed up Since (Days) – with customized thresholds.
• Quota Info: Prohibit Send.
• Quota Info: Prohibit Send and Receive.
• DB Activation Preference Check [Is it mounted on the preferred Server?].
• DB Copy Location and Activation Preference assignment.

3. Mailbox Type Aggregated Data:
• User Mailbox Count.
• Shared Mailbox Count.
• Room Mailbox Count.
• Discovery Mailbox Count.

4. Exchange Server Aggregated Data
• Total Number of Exchange Servers break down by
i. Version.
ii. Role.

5. Mailbox Aggregated Data
[Overall Statistics for the Organization]
• Total Mailbox Count.
• Total databases Size
• Total Archive Count.
• Total Archive Size.
• Average Archive Size.

Version 1.0.2 Available

If your import of the scripts fails to create the PowerShell script in your L:\transfer\Scripts folder then you can download that script here

Get Powershell script

GhostFile -> Host File Manager plugin for LabTech

GhostFile plugin for Labtech is a Host file manager that allows a Tech to add, update or delete host file entries from within LabTech. The client console will allow management of 1, many or all systems under the client from a single interface. The plugin will write a new host file to the systems and send a DNS resolver flush command to the system so entries take effect immediately.

Version 1.0.2 now available for download

RegHog Windows Registry Search Plugin for LabTech

RegHog is a Windows registry search plugin for the LabTech RMM platform. The tool allow you to search the Windows registry of a single computer or across the entire client. The plugin provides different search query options to help you better define and refine your search for the best results returned. The results are returned directly to the plugins display window where you can monitor the replies from the systems the the queries are running on.

Client Console Tab

Computer Console Tab

Version 1.0.1

LabTech – Agent Status Plugin provides client level view of deployed agents

View Agents Differently

Sometimes bringing the horse to water is not enough as I was finding with some of the techs and engineers that I work with. We were once a Kaseya house and now that we were 2 years into LabTech; why was it they still seemed to want to go to several basic tools in Kaseya to get the same data that was available in LabTech? Interviewing on of my engineers I was given a simple reason and that was “he liked the view..” Well if that is all you need is a logical view of the data in a simple and easy place to find it then we can replicate that in LabTech.

In steps Agent Status

Agent Status tries to replicate the Agent -> Status view on the Kaseya RMM tool in LabTech in a simple and logical manor. We have placed a tab on the Client Console that provides a complete view of all systems and quick access to mass amounts of common data about the agents you have deployed for that client.

New in version 1.0.2

Added refresh button
Added Extend View which includes AV Scanner, Def dates, Hardware Name, Memory, Open Ports and last windows updates
Redesigned screen to expand to windows size

New in Version 1.0.4

Added Export to Excel button
Added control (Double Click) to open LT computer console
Added integrated function script so no more importing of scripts

New in Version 1.0.5

Fixed Automated data probe, now runs 3 times a day
Fixed table layout re sizing cells
Updated Interfaces.dll
Fixed launcher for computer console so a double click anywhere will launch.

Version 1.0.9

[LabTech]-Flushot AntiViral and Antimalware plugin

Flu Shot

It’s the art of avoiding being sick by pricking yourself regularly in the hopes that you may dodge a bullet!

The plugin on the other hand,

In comes “Flu Shot” for LabTech, A no install AV and Malware scanner using the Emsisoft Command line Scanner – Version 9.0 to scan a PC on a set schedule and to clean off the PC if anything was found. After each scan you can see the results of that scan in the LabTech plugin visible in the computer console.

ScanTab

In the first version you can launch scans manually from the console or schedule the Give PC A Flu Shot on a system or a group. The Send the Nurse Over script is just a worker script launched by the Give PC A Flu Shot, do not schedule or execute this script alone. (It just won’t do anything useful) Import the scripts, then using the plugin manage under the help menu of your LabTech console, you can upload the plugin and activate it. Make sure the scripts go to the correct folders in Labtech then start scanning systems.

The script will cause the scanner to update all AV defs to current status, runs a full system scan on PC, finds and removes all threats. Reports back to LabTech (on average in 1 hour) then finds and loads results of the scans. You will see in the display all the scans, how many files were scanned, how long scan took, and what was found and what was deleted.

New in Version 1.1.

We now added the ability to setup custom scanning configs, selecting a system you can modify the scan policy for that system from the Flu Shot Tab. We also now save and display the actual log files from the scanner based on log time under the new Logs tab of the Flu Shot Plugin.

New in Version 1.2

Several bug fixes and improved scripts, Oh yea we also added in help documentation so you can get all the help you need with managing FluShot.

New in Version 1.2.1

We added a new Client Tab that provided a overview of the scan history for all computers the are under the client. We added the ability to export that view as a report in Excel. We added a few more nurse checks for long running scans and now do now force the download of the scanner if a local copy exists. This will prevent some of the download denials we have seen when a lot of systems scan at same time.

New in Version 1.3.1

We added a new sub tab for “Quick Scans” that will allow you to run a quick interactive scan and see the results in the terminal provided. We added UK time support to the Nurse collection scripts and corrected several issues in the scripts and console.

Flu Shot Version 1.3.3

Please comment here how it works for you so we know if we need to fix anything.

LabTech – Map Drives plugin shows you mappings by client.

Ever wished you just could see everyone’s mapped drives at one time so you could see who had what mappings and where they went? Me too. Well now in LabTech there is a plugin for that! Squidworks has created a new plugin that fetches all the mapped drives for all systems under a given client and displays them in a nice list that has sort-able columns.

What is a Drive Map Plugin if it can’t map drives?

Map both drive letters to network shares or Printer ports to Network printers with this simple tool. Right click on a listed system in the Map Drives plugin and select the menu option to Map a Drive.

#New in version 1.0.2

We now added the ability to export the mappings to an Excel spreadsheet.

#New in version 1.0.3

Improved the export the mappings to an Excel spreadsheet.
Made it LabTech 10.5 functional
Added new console menu
Added location column
Added online status

#New in version 1.0.4

We now added the ability to map drives to systems listed in Map Drives List

MapDrives Plugin Version 1.0.4 zip file

LabTech Plugin -> Office 365 UM keeps improving with new features.

Squidworks Office365 UM Evolves

“New Flash we are now at version 1.8.6 and have added many great features since the writing of this blog, come check out all the new stuff when your done reading.”

Today Version 0.1.7.0 is launching, the 7th release of the first plugin in Labtech to manage Office 365 in the cloud.

GM-O365UM

In the beginning

If you are in the Labtech community then you should know about Cubert’s Office365 Plugin but did you know that it has been evolving?

Back in the beginning our plugin looked a little like this:

In the first version publicly available V 0.0.11 you could only see your users and change their passwords but this was a big step. We were now using remote Powershell CMDs in Labtech scripting and bringing the collected data back into Labtech’s database. This was the first steps to building a plugin for Labtech and getting the data from the cloud into Labtech. We now had a method and a functional process to import data from the cloud and the possibilities opened up for all sorts of new things to come.

It wasn’t long before we were trying new commands and adding some features to our new plugin. Shortly there after we had release a new version that provided the ability to manage some basic permissions like Send As and Send on Behalf As. We started working on added the ability to setup a forwarding email address and full level permissions to allow access for users to other users mailboxes. Version 0.1.4 was released which added the final pieces to our Office365 UM or so we thought.

Moving Day

The Office365 tab’s face was full, no space left to really do anything new but the requests kept coming in for new features. Cubert can you do this was the common theme in the forums. We asked ourselves where are we to put all this new requested functionality? We were out of space and something was going to have to change if we were going to move this plugin any further.

In version 0.1.5.0 we introduced some tabs of our own:

We redesigned the face of the plugin giving us the ability to spread out our functions across different tabs. This gave us the space we needed to really start making this thing preform.We added some new features like adding new users to Office365 , deleting users and also restoring deleted users, converting user mailboxes to shared mailboxes and improving the data collection and error management on the back end.

Our look was getting notice

Cubert heads to Labtech’s Automation Nation 2014 for the second year to see whats in the pipeline in the skunk works at Labtech. Speaking with several people at AN2014 we discovered that there were people using the plugin and had some insight in to how we could make it better and we were determined to do just that.

Our plugin was starting to take shape and the download counts were starting to roll in but with the users comes the problems. The first real wide spread issues started to arise with how Labtech was executing Powershell scripts. This process did not always produce the same results. We found that across platforms that some users were experiencing execution errors with the Data Miner scripts we had designed. We decided a rewrite of the collector was needed, a design that would use the native Powershell application on the PCs instead of the one provided with the Labtech Agent.

We re-crafted the entire data collection process and called it of course “Collect Data” aka “Office 365 Collect Data” . The new method incorporates all user data mining in a single session and adds our newest feature to the Office 365UM Distribution Group Management.

Come and get it

So today we announce our 7Th release of the Office365UM plugin for Labtech available for download now at Squidworks Office365 Plugin for Labtech . We hope you enjoy our products and post here at Squidworks, your experiences with the plugin. This will help drive the development in the direction that is most useful to you and helps us build a better plugin.

Here is what we can do today:

Add, update and delete user accounts and email addresses
Manage Send As, Send on Behalf As and Full Permissions on Mailboxes for other users
Set and delete Forwarding email addresses for users
Restore soft deleted users (30 day limit on retention)
Convert User Mailbox to Shared Mailbox
Set/reset users password
License/unlicense user
Add and delete distribution groups
Add,delete and view group members
Add/Remove groups from Global Address Lists
View License counts and type

Thanks to everyone involved!

Cubert

[LabTech] IPBlock Windows Firewall plugin.

Block entire countries from seeing your PC on the Internet

Squidwork’s garage has released version 1 of their new IPBlock for Labtech RMM. IPBlock is a Country based Network Firewall plugin for Windows based systems. When deployed you can select different countries you do not want to have access to your IP address for any Windows Vista / 7 / 2008 or new system and block them from network access to your PC.

How it works:

The plugin launches a script that goes out and refreshes a complete list of all countries and any IP ranges assigned to those countries. It imports them into the local host and stores them in zone files inside the LTSvc directory. Then based on your selection it applies each zone to the Windows firewall as a rule set.

What does this do for me?

This greatly reduces your Internet footprint and attack surface. Preventing access from countries that have large amounts of attacking systems. It also reduces your ability to be fully exploited by Trojans, Virus or Worms as if infected it makes it much harder to “Phone Home” if the attack comes from a Country you have blocked like “China”.

Version 1 only controls the lists that are applied to your PC it does not turn on or off the actual firewall on Windows. You will need to turn on firewall through the Windows control panel for rules to actually take effect. Then to stop the filtering shut down Windows firewall or go into plugin and select “None” and apply for all rule sets placed in by IPBlock to be removed.

Get Version 1.0.3 here

Enjoy Cubert 😎

LabTech & ConnectWise Plugin – Printer Health Status

Printer Health Status

Mr Keigher posted on the Labtech forums that wouldn’t it be great if there was a Printer Status Plugin for Labtech that could show if there were any issues with a printer and maybe even interact with a failed printer. Well Marty your ship has come in! Let me introduce you to your new Printer Status Plugin. The team down in Squidwork’s basement went to town taking what seemed like minutes (and it looks like it) to build a Labtech plugin that would do what had to be done.

In Version 1.0.4 you have good management over printers in 2 main views; the global view and the client view. The Global view allows for the full management suite of tools to be executed on any printer being scanned and will give you a quick view in to the troubles your clients maybe having. The Client view provides the same management functions but also allows you to enable and disable scanning for a client and to include desktops in printer scans.

Lets show you what we have:

Printer Status Global Manager:

Printer Status at the Client Console:

Printer Status Exclude Printers:

Download Labtech Plugin – Printer Status Version 1.0.4

Enjoy

Cubert

LabTech & ConnectWise ESXI Host Hardware Monitor

NEW ->LabTech ESXi Hardware Monitor v2.1

Squidwork’s ESX Hardware monitor is a set of scripts, a custom group and search for Labtech that will monitor the CIM data provided through the VMWare API for ESX 4 and 5. The probe will launch hourly and report back to Labtech any hardware failure or warning. The script will email an alarm to any email address you would like. The script can be modified to also set an alarm, create a ticket or anything else Labtech scripting will let you do.

New in version 2.1:

We added several checks for false alarms and socket errors to prevent alarms and emails on non failures.

We added alarm flood control, once a email goes out it will not send another until the system has reported a “all OK” then alerts are reset to go out on next fail.

Added extra EDFs to control processes.

Here is how it works:

Download the zip file, extract and import the XML files into your Labtech system.

Addendum Update:

After you import “all” scripts in Version 2.1 Download this zip and import this script. This script should then be used in your group scheduled script probe instead of the v2.1. This v.2.2 of that one script. Download update here

Download extra files directly if import fails for any reason here.

After the import you should have a VMware script group that has 3 scripts in it.

Script #1 (The Installer) will install the monitor to a Windows system. You will need to provide the FQDN or IP of the ESX host you want to monitor when you execute the installer script. When the scheduler pops up make sure to add your ESX host. The only thing you should need to do is execute the installer on a Windows system. The installer will configure the system and add the system to the custom group and search. You do not need to configure anything else at this point. The ESX user and password will be fetched from the Locations password menu for VMWare.

The next script (The Monitor) is assigned to the custom group “Systems that monitor ESX hosts” to run every hour. You can modify this to run at what interval you like. The Monitor will query your “Locations” passwords database table and retrieve the VMWare user listed just like the original Labtech probes do. The monitor get the CIM health data and returns it to Labtech, It also looks to see if we are “Not OK” and fires off a email if failures are picked up.

After the Monitor runs you should see data on the Info Tab -> VMWare sub tab

You will need to edit the monitor script updating the email address that it reports to when failures are found, you can also modify monitor script to create a ticket, fire off an alarm, set an alert or anything your heart desires. Line 39 of the script ESX Hardware Monitor V2-1 needs to be edited and the example@example.com email changed to the email you want to get the alerts.

The 3rd script is a updater script that will fetch the latest build of the Nagios Plugin:”check_esxi_hardware.py” script maintained by www.claudiokuenzler.com You can run this script against any Windows box that has the monitor installed and it will get the latest version of this script and deploy it to that system. This way you can keep up with all the fixes they do to this script. You may want to run this script on the group once or twice a year just to make sure you have the latest fixes and updates.

Enjoy

Cubert 😎