IPWorx https://www.ipworx.com IP Work eXchange Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:17:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://NoPress.org/?v=6.0.3 https://www.ipworx.com/wp-content/uploads/bannerICON.gif IPWorx https://www.ipworx.com 32 32 SYSTEMS https://www.ipworx.com/home/projects/systems/ Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:12:00 +0000 https://www.ipworx.com/?page_id=143 CubeFarm – Consistently configure new Windows installs and remove unwanted features. HOSTS – Protect your computers with auto-updating black hole technology PS-NetMon – Monitor everything on your network and get notification when something is amiss. SpaceCop – Monitor file shares for files that should not be there.

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]]> PATCHING https://www.ipworx.com/home/projects/patching/ Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:12:00 +0000 https://www.ipworx.com/?page_id=156 Updating procedures and scripts primarily dealing with Microsoft’s Windows Server Update Services. WSUS ABC Core – Setup WSUS in a simple standardized configuration. WSUS Group Policy Objects – Configure Active Directory rules to send workstations and servers to your WSUS server. WSUS WORKSTATION Rebooter – Force computers with outstanding patches to reboot so they will … Continue reading PATCHING

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]]> WSUS Patch Report https://www.ipworx.com/home/projects/patching/wsus-patch-report/ Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:12:00 +0000 https://www.ipworx.com/?page_id=160 Having WSUS is great for keeping your systems up to date but reviewing the most recent updates via the WSUS interface can be rather tedious and frequently requires multiple sets of eyes for accuracy and approval. Having everyone involved log into WSUS and peruse recent updates is not very practical but WSUS doesn’t offer any … Continue reading WSUS Patch Report

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]]> Cube Farm https://www.ipworx.com/home/projects/systems/cube-farm-windows-decrapifier-fork/ Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:12:00 +0000 https://www.ipworx.com/?page_id=3137 Everyone who has ever run Windows knows it comes with a lot of “extras”; Extra applications, extra games, extra not necessarily wanted functions that chew up bandwidth and some that may be seen as privacy concerns. Several web sites and administrators have come up with piecemeal pokes and tweaks to rein in the bloat, and … Continue reading Cube Farm

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]]> WSUS ABC Core https://www.ipworx.com/home/projects/patching/wsus-setup/ Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:12:00 +0000 https://www.ipworx.com/?page_id=3146 System stability and security rely heavily on keeping systems up to date with patches. Patches can fix errors that cause application and services to run slow or even crash in certain circumstances as well as plug holes in security that could endanger the system or network. While there are third party patching solutions, if you … Continue reading WSUS ABC Core

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]]> WSUS AutoMan https://www.ipworx.com/home/projects/patching/wsus-automan/ Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:12:00 +0000 https://www.ipworx.com/?page_id=3148 One of Windows Server Update Services’ (WSUS) great lacking is its need for regular attention. A few features, like automatic approvals, can be setup in rules but several other regular items have to be attended to manually. WSUS AutoMan is a PowerShell script intended to be run as a scheduled task on a regular basis … Continue reading WSUS AutoMan

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]]> WSUS Group Policy Objects https://www.ipworx.com/home/projects/patching/wsus-group-policy-objects/ Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:12:00 +0000 https://www.ipworx.com/?page_id=3440 Group Policy Objects (GPOs) are the rule sets in Active Directory applied to the objects in the same or descending Organizational units (OUs). The creation and application of several GPOs is what we will use to guide workstations and servers to report to our WSUS server. This guide follows the default setup used in the … Continue reading WSUS Group Policy Objects

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]]> WSUS WORKSTATION Rebooter https://www.ipworx.com/home/projects/patching/wsus-workstation-rebooter/ Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:12:00 +0000 https://www.ipworx.com/?page_id=3509 Many times I have been at a user’s computer and have seen the notification that the computer needs to reboot to apply updates and many times the user procrastinates for months. Are your users not rebooting to allow patches to install? Sometimes it makes sense to take that option away. This is a PowerShell script … Continue reading WSUS WORKSTATION Rebooter

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]]> WSUS Database Tune-Up https://www.ipworx.com/home/projects/patching/wsus-database-tune-up/ Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:12:00 +0000 https://www.ipworx.com/?page_id=3512 WSUS running slow? It is likely database speed. Once WSUS has been up and running for awhile it can slow down with the number of patches and computers growing on a regular basis. Oddly WSUS creates its database without indexes, and as such offers no way to rebuild those missing indexes. What are database indexes? … Continue reading WSUS Database Tune-Up

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]]> SOFTWARE https://www.ipworx.com/home/software/ Mon, 15 Aug 2022 13:42:00 +0000 https://www.ipworx.com/?page_id=255 There are many must-haves when running an IT environment. Most here are free or inexpensive and many assist greatly in automated scripts. SCRIPTING-COMMAND LINE WGET : A command line tool that retrieves web links/sites. This will be automated by NoPress to make a basic mirror of the local website. FART : It may sound a … Continue reading SOFTWARE

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