Monitoring with PowerShell Chapter 2: Monitoring Windows Activation State

Kelvin Tegelaar | 28 Jan, 2018 | 1 Mins Read

Hi All,
Today we will be focusing on monitoring the status of the Windows and office activation status, we use an imaging application to supply all of our machines with the correct version of Windows, but sometimes its forgotten to actually activate the OS. This script checks the current activation status and alerts on it.


Get-CimInstance -ClassName SoftwareLicensingProduct | Where-Object PartialProductKey | Select-Object Name, ApplicationId, LicenseStatus

This very simple one-liner gives us the current OS and office installation activation status as a result, it is a little bit slow but alerting on this becomes quite easy:


$LicenseStatus = Get-CimInstance -ClassName SoftwareLicensingProduct | Where-Object PartialProductKey | Select-Object Name, ApplicationId, LicenseStatus
foreach($License in $LicenseStatus | where-object {$_.LicenseStatus -ne 1}) {
$LicenseError = "$($License.name) is not activated"
}
if(!$LicenseError){ $LicenseError = "Healthy"}

Sorry that the last 2 blogs are a bit on the short side! coming Monday I will resume with the longer blogs where we start remediating issues we’ve found in previous monitoring sets.

CyberDrain CTF returns! (and so do I!)

It’s been since september that I actually picked up a digital pen equivalent and wrote anything down. This was due to me being busy with life but also my side projects like CIPP. I’m trying to get back into the game of scripting and blogging about these scripts. There’s still so much to automate and so little time, right? ;)

Intro

This is a monitoring script requested via Reddit, One of the reddit r/msp users wondered how they can monitor Acronis a little bit easier. I jumped on this because it happened pretty much at the same time that I was asked to speak at the Acronis CyberSummit so it kinda made sense to script this so I have something to demonstrate at my session there.

Intro

Wow! It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. I’ve just been so swamped with CIPP that I’ve just let the blogging go entirely. It’s a shame because I think out of all my hobbies it’s one I enjoy the most. It’s always nice helping others achieve their scripting target. I even got a couple of LinkedIn questions asking if I was done with blogging but I’m not. Writing always gives me some more piece of mind so I’ll try to catch up again. I know I’ve said that before but this time I’ll follow through. I’m sitting down right now and scheduling the release of 5 blogs in one go. No more whining and no more waiting.