While managing an existing WSUS environment, you may want to ensure settings are consistent, remove endpoints that have not checked in, and provide reporting. The script below was written by my co-worker and myself to address this issue and was… Read More »Mass WSUS Auditing/Reporting via PowerShell
This weekend’s project covers setting up a Kubernetes cluster on Ubuntu 18.04 and deploying the base NGINX image. First, let’s go over our setup. VM Setup K8 Master: K8-M01- IP: 10.0.0.2 / Specs: 4 CPU, 4gb MEM / OS: Ubuntu… Read More »Setup Kubernetes on Ubuntu 18.04 and deploy NGINX
As a companion piece to the EPM vs. Active Directory, this post covers archiving PCs based on a query. You may want to do this for various reasons, such as removing devices with broken agents or removing devices that are… Read More »Archiving PCs within Ivanti EPM based on a query
The Patch and compliance module is arguably one of Ivanti’s best features for a sysadmin. This system allows you to download definitions not only for Microsoft products but other vendors such as Mozilla, Google, and many more. Today I will… Read More »Initial Setup of Ivanti’s EPM Patch Management
In Today’s post, I will cover deploying SySMon using a simple PowerShell script, which will then deploy using Ivanti’s EPM (you can also use SCCM as the steps are similar). Our Goal The goal of this script was to accommodate… Read More »SysMon deployment using PowerShell
This weekend’s project will be staging a new DNS server leveraging PiHole within a docker container. PiHole is a free and opensource DNS sinkhole project which provides ad blocking at a network level so that clients don’t require any unique… Read More »Setup PiHole as a container on Alpine Linux
Endpoint Manager’s reporting leaves much to be desired – it is clunky and unintuitive. The first thing I did in our environment after moving into my new role was to ensure 100% device enrollment. After a bit of researching, I… Read More »Ivanti EPM vs Active Directory using PowerShell
Docker is a relatively new kid on the virtualization block. Rather than the age-old process of needing a hypervisor, guest OS, and one app per VM. We can use a host OS, install docker & docker-compose, and then deploy our… Read More »Using docker containers for a media server
During our migration from Microsoft’s SCCM to Ivanti’s EPM, one of the most important tasks we had was moving over our imaging process. In SCCM, we used WMI queries to determine the device model and would inject the specific model’s… Read More »Ivanti EPM WMI model-based imaging via PowerShell
For our example, we are parsing Milestone’s configuration file using PowerShell to build a weekly report. Ideally, you would leverage a fully-featured monitor like SolarWinds or AppManager to monitor Milestone devices and alert based on a defined threshold, but for… Read More »Parsing Milestone JSON using PowerShell