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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
When users attempts to click on the “Connect” link under “Computers” in attempts to launch remote web workplace nothing seems to happens. If you issue a IISreset then the system starts working again for a short time before starting to fail again. You check your logs and find EventID 1309 Event message: An unhandled exception has occurred.
It appears that it maybe some level of memory issue in .Net 4.5 and the Remote Access web.config set… Continue reading
Create a Labtech Full Screen RDP Redirector
Labtech out of the box comes with a older version of RDP client that when is pushed to full screen looks really crappy. That’s not Labtech’s fault but the limitation of the RDP client they packaged with the LTClient software. One of the great things about Labtech is you can customize… Continue reading
Replay.Core.Contracts.Agents.AgentPairingFailedException: Error occurred pairing to agent at URL
Here is several possible fixes for this type of error based on state of agent systems, Each fix is based on a given type of problem. I will continue to post other fixes for this error type as I come across them.
New Agent Install on Windows DC or SBS server.
So you just installed an Appassure 5 core server… Continue reading
This was a real pain and we ended up having to call Microsoft and spend several hours to resolve what seem to be a simple issue. When running dcdiag you get an error that the NCSecDesc test failed with:
Error NT AUTHORITY\ENTERPRISE DOMAIN CONTROLLERS doesn’t have Replicating Directory Changes In Filtered Set access rights for the naming context: DC=cosgro,DC=com
Normally running adprep /rodcprep at the command line would correct… Continue reading
Many WAN connections can vary in quality and latency, and often times these two characteristics will manifest themselves in disconnected terminal services sessions. By doing two relatively easy registry hacks, you can reduce these disconnects and improve the overall experience of your users.
Keep Alives:
In the registry at HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server, create or edit the DWORD value of KeepAliveEnable and set it to 1. This will… Continue reading
VMWare ESXi Hardware Health Monitor Script
From the skunk works here at Squidworks comes another great monitoring script for Kaseya.
This script uses the SDK provided by VMWare to query the ESX host and return a good or bad variable. If the hardware test fails then the script grabs the log of the test and uploads it to… Continue reading
