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Updating Drivers from Microsoft Update

· One min read
Mikey O'Toole
Mikey O'Toole

Creating Fields​

Creating custom fields in NinjaOne
To create a custom field in NinjaOne go to Administration > Devices and select either Role Custom Fields or Global Custom Fields then select Add.

  • Role Custom Fields are custom fields that are specific to a device role.
  • Global Custom Fields are custom fields that are applicable to all devices and/or to a location and/or organisation
Make sure you add the fields to the roles you want to use them in at Administration > Devices > Roles (for role custom fields).

When you create your custom field you need to make sure that you set the Scripts permission to ensure that you can read or write to the field from your scripts - as appropriate for the script you're using.

We're adding three role custom fields for devices with the Windows Laptop role:

Field NameField TypeDescription
Driver Update: Reboot RequiredCheckboxWhether the latest driver update run requires a reboot to finalise.
Driver Update: Last RunDate/TimeThe date and time the driver update script last ran successfully.
Driver Update: Number Installed on Last RunIntegerThe number of driver updates installed on last script run.

NinjaOne custom fields - exploring endless possibilities

· 11 min read
Mikey O'Toole
Mikey O'Toole

This post uses code from CyberDrain

This post draws on multiple posts, click the link below to check out CyberDrain.com and support Kelvin's fantastic work for the MSP community.

Flush me down the CyberDrain

You will find more excellent uses for NinjaOne custom fields on the Dojo, on Stephen Murphy's blog and on Luke Whitelock's blog.

Custom fields are a great way to store arbitrary data from your devices in NinjaOne. In this post I will explore a few examples, some using code from CyberDrain, which store data in NinjaOne custom fields.

This post was updated on 2022/12/22 to add a new script to run a speedtest on a device and store the results in NinjaOne.

Monitoring AntiVirus status with PowerShell

· 2 min read
Mikey O'Toole
Mikey O'Toole

Background information​

Ninja doesn't currently support native AV monitoring via Windows Security Center, integrated AV packages are monitored but what if you need more?

Creating Fields​

Creating custom fields in NinjaOne
To create a custom field in NinjaOne go to Administration > Devices and select either Role Custom Fields or Global Custom Fields then select Add.

  • Role Custom Fields are custom fields that are specific to a device role.
  • Global Custom Fields are custom fields that are applicable to all devices and/or to a location and/or organisation
Make sure you add the fields to the roles you want to use them in at Administration > Devices > Roles (for role custom fields).

When you create your custom field you need to make sure that you set the Scripts permission to ensure that you can read or write to the field from your scripts - as appropriate for the script you're using.

We're going to create one role custom field for devices with the Windows Desktop or Windows Laptop role:

Field NameField TypeDescription
Detailed AV StatusMulti-LineOutput for each configured AV on the system including name and status information.

Exchange Online Automation with PowerShell for Microsoft Partners

· 4 min read
Mikey O'Toole
Mikey O'Toole

Secure Application Model

For this post you'll want a secure application model Azure AD application configured. Use these instructions from Gavin Stone's Gavsto.com blog.

Read Instructions

CIPP Inspired

The code in this script was inspired by functionality in the CyberDrain Improved Partner Portal (CIPP). Need to manage M365 tenants - CIPP is a fantastic open-source solution for M365 management for single tenants and Microsoft CSP Partners alike.

Check Out CIPP

Finding duplicate devices in NinjaOne

· One min read
Mikey O'Toole
Mikey O'Toole

I'm the author of the NinjaOne PowerShell module so when I was looking for a quick way to identify duplicate devices I turned to that module and the NinjaOne API to find a solution.

About this script​

This script is a quick way to identify duplicate devices in your NinjaOne instance. It can return a full listing of all devices grouped by serial number, it can also just return the ID, last contact date and serial number for the device with the oldest last contact date.

Recursively remove a folder from OneDrive with PowerShell

· 2 min read
Mikey O'Toole
Mikey O'Toole

Did you know, when you have a retention policy configured for OneDrive in Microsoft 365 you lose the ability to recursively delete folders. The OneDrive client often handles this by recursing through the folder tree to remove the online copies but sometimes that doesn't work and in those cases you can end up stuck with a folder tree that you would have to manually recurse to remove the offending folders by first emptying them entirely before OneDrive will let you delete them.

Well that's never going to happen ;-)

Enter PowerShell.

Required Modules

You'll need the PnP.PowerShell module for this script. Install with Install-Module 'PnP.PowerShell'

Getting computer information from your NinjaOne agent into your HaloPSA self service portal

· 5 min read
Mikey O'Toole
Mikey O'Toole

Background information​

The NinjaOne agent gives you the ability to customise your system tray and add things like about text, email links, a help request form, a URL and other things. Unfortunately HaloPSA doesn't currently support hooking into NinjaOne's help request form (don't worry, we're talking to NinjaOne and Halo Service Solutions about this!) so we're left with a bit of a workaround as a solution.

Pushing a web tab into your Customers' Teams environment.

· 2 min read
Mikey O'Toole
Mikey O'Toole

About this script​

HaloPSA is improving at a phenomenal rate - one of the latest enhancements relates to embedding the "customer portal" inside Teams for easier access by customers - this is early days for this enhancement to Halo and at present there isn't really a way to push this tab into customer environments... Until now!

Using the script below you can push any website as a tab to your customers' Teams environments. First a couple of configuration pre-requisites.

  1. You'll need to have setup the Secure App Model (Thanks Gav for the superb write-up!)
  2. You'll need to know the name of the Team and Channel you want to deploy the tab - currently the script will use the same details for all customers!

Packaging the latest Adobe Reader DC as an IntuneWin file

· 2 min read
Mikey O'Toole
Mikey O'Toole
Save yourself the headache - use the Microsoft Store on Windows 11

If you're using or managing this for Windows 11 you can now deploy Adobe Acrobat Reader DC using the Microsoft Store. This is preferable for many reasons mostly because this way of doing it with IntuneWin files is a complete pain in the ass.

About this script​

If you're not familiar with the IntuneWin format and what it's used for/when it's used there's some good background reading from Microsoft here: Prepare a Win32 app to be uploaded to Microsoft Intune | Microsoft Docs.

In short, it's a format designed to package Windows application installers for deployment with Intune.

This post contains a script which downloads the latest version of the Adobe Reader DC installer and turns it into an IntuneWin package for Intune deployment.

Kelvin has published a module that automates publishing RMM installers to Intune across all your customer tenants - you can read about it here: Automating with PowerShell: uploading your RMM application to all Intune tenants - CyberDrain.