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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 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
NUT uses IPerf to test between 2 endpoints. When launching a scan with NUT we send commands to both systems to start the IPerf executable. The Host side and the Client side sessions are sent start up commands and the client is then pointed to the host to run the configured scan options. Once the scan is complete the results are returned to the plugin console menu.
The Host side must have firewall access on the port and protocol you select (default is 5001 and TCP). You will also need to supply a FQDN or routable IP address for the host system to allow the client to locate the host system across the internet and to connect.
You can select TCP or UDP protocols and how long to run the test from the config menu.
In version 1.0.1 we are forcing the host side to be one system under client 1. We are using our LT server as the host side and have opened up ports to allow UDP and TCP testing on port 5001. You can select any system to be a host just remember to make sure to allow firewall access to host and that host has a external FQDN or IP to allow access from other locations.
In version 1.0.2 we added the servers at any clients location to be added to the Servers side of the IPerf testing. Fixed a could minor display issues.
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.
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.
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
Added Export to Excel button
Added control (Double Click) to open LT computer console
Added integrated function script so no more importing of scripts
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.
FileHog is a file stating tool that collects file names and paths for all files that meet the search criteria provided.
File Hog allows you to configure search parameters and search drives and folders for files that match filters, attributes, file dates and file sizes. Would you like to know how many files over 10 Mb is on a PC and where? What about all hidden files in the users home directory; or maybe you want all files on the C drive that have the word “Contract” in the name that are also “Zip” files, but only ones over 50 MB.
Yeap you can do that too…
You can search files by location, last change date, files size, attributes or plain text filter or by using any combination of these filters you can search for files across an drive or folder location.
But wait there’s more…
As on version 1.0.1 you have a Client Tab that allows you to scan the PCs of an entire Client for the same search parameters and see what each computer replies with in the same comfortable view as at the computer level.
Using the Configure Tab to modify the search criteria for this PC and save the configuration, then select the Scan button to start a scan using those settings.
Scans take on average 2 to 5 minutes to complete and will be displayed on the File Viewer Tab. You can monitor the Scripts tab for the completion of the scans and to troubleshoot issues like was my file returned to big for LabTech.
You can export the file list to Excel once scan is completed, the Export to Excel can take some time if you have returned a lot of data. Ten minutes for 5000 records is not unlikely.
LT has limited the file content copy to 2 MB files max. If data fails to show then the most likely cause is the SQL file C:\windows\LTSVC\FileHog\filehog.sql is over 2 MB in size. Re-craft your search by adjusting files sizes and minimum date to reduce the max return on scans.
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Added computers reporting in count to Client view
Fixed issue where default size limit was set to 4mb
Fixed issue with SQL file having csv headers as row 1
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Added display console to send notifications, information and errors
Fixed SQL Client config table issues
Fixed minor issues
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Added updated interface.dll
Added minor debugging to error messages
Added extra files to zip.
Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows (like apt-get or yum but for Windows). It was designed to be a decentralized framework for quickly installing applications and tools that you need. It is built on the NuGet infrastructure currently using PowerShell as its focus for delivering packages from the distros to your door, err computer.
Chocolatey for LabTech is a global App and tool silent installer.
Currently in Version 1.1.1 we host over 100 applications, servers and tools available that can be directly installed to the managed PC. First install the Chocolatey Package manager on the managed PC then start selecting different apps to install on the PC. Each app you click will auto install on PC in just 1 minute. Using the Installer Progress Window you can monitor the install of the applications live as it happens.
Chocolatey 1.1.1 now allows you to update any installed package on a regular schedule to keep the deployed software current. Every night a cmd is sent to the systems set to auto update that has Chocolatey check to see if any new updates exist and if found to install the updates. Then once a week Chocolatey checks to see if it needs to be updated and if it finds a new Chocolatey version it to will update.
New in Version 1.1.2 -> Install any package you like using the unlisted package installer
It’s the art of avoiding being sick by pricking yourself regularly in the hopes that you may dodge a bullet!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Please comment here how it works for you so we know if we need to fix anything.
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.
We now added the ability to export the mappings to an Excel spreadsheet.
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
We now added the ability to map drives to systems listed in Map Drives List
MapDrives Plugin Version 1.0.4 zip file
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
Thanks to everyone involved!
Cubert
A new plugin is under development here inside the Squidworks garage that allows Labtech MSPs to manage Dell Appassure Backup Cores servers from a common console inside of Labtech. The new plugin leverages Appassure REST API to mine data from each core and send that data back to the Labtech database. Using the same processes the plugin is able to send commands back to the cores to preform various tasks like start a new backup or replication.
The plugin provides a common view of each core at the location level console in Labtech. You can select one of many cores at any location and view the protected servers managed by that core. Selecting a protected server provides details about that server and the list of snapshots preformed on that system. We have many great features planed for this plugin so start following us now!
The plugin is still under development and will we have a release for early beta testers. Place a comment here you would like to be notified of updates and being included in the beta testing.
Get Version 1.0.1 Beta here
You Will need Powershell 3 on all Cores, Here is a script to install Powershell 3 directly from LabTech