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Hey All, I recently switched to Automox from Manage Engine’s Patch Manager and wanted an easy way to remove the Manage Engine agent from my systems. In talking with Nic, I found out this would be a...
In an effort to reduce our required outage time for patching, I’ve created a worklet that sets a few registry keys on Windows systems to enable Windows Update to download (but not install) any newly...
Note: This worklet changes the screensaver setting only for the current signed in user. The way this worklet was written creates a folder to save screensaver images to, and clears out that folder...
Brittany here again for another Worklet update! It’s mid-month, which means we are refreshing our swag item. For submitting a Worklet to the Automox Alive community, we’ll send you our exclusive...
I have been having issues with a script I found and even after modifying it I am unable to make it work. Could someone take a look and see if there’s an issue that I’m missing? The idea is to get the...
Hi all, Has anyone used Automox to update or push out a hosts file? Thank you, Chris.
Delete Skype Run at Startup Registry Key Value Under HKEY_USERS (HKCU Workaround) It has come up more than a few times that modifying HKCU in a worklet doesn’t behave as expected. This is because the...
This worklet can be run against Mac Hosts to standardize hostnames. This is valuable to our org in that we have a hostname standard of username-macbookModel that helps us identify the machine. You...
Sometimes Microsoft Autoupdate is not recognize when office Office for Mac is not patched. This worklet is more of a work around than a solution, so take it for what its worth. This does require...
The following worklet will enable FileVault on Macs and save the recovery key into Automox. To avoid requesting credentials from the user it has been set to enable at the next login. The recovery key...
This is a remediation for CVE-2018-8581 per this article: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-us/vulnerability/CVE-2018-8581 The workaround is to remove a specific registry entry, which this...
Hey guys, It has come up a few times that modifying HKCU in a worklet doesn’t behave as expected. This is because the process is running under the SYSTEM account. So only the keys under the SYSTEM...
Has anyone successfully created a worklet to install Teamviewer Host silently?
Evaluation Code: if(test-path -Path "%APPDATA%/Zoom"){Exit 1} Remediation Code: $process = Start-Process -File-Path "%APPDATA%\Zoom\Zoom\uninstall\Installer.exe" -ArgumentList "/uninstall" -PassThru...
reg add “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server” /v fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f I push this if I need to enable RDP for some reason.
I wanted to recognize the top worklet creators - @Brittany recently tallied up all the worklets and we have the following top 5 worklet writers: @jesumyip 6 @Maikel 5 @jbragdon 4 @Mrichards 4...
This is a worklet that will install Splashtop Streamer (business account required). A Deployment package needs to be created first, this will generate your URL that can go into the URL variable...
Evaluation: if (Test-Path -Path "C:\Windows\System32\SNMP.exe") { Exit 0 } else { Exit 1 } Remediation Code: Install-WindowsFeature SNMP-Service Start-Sleep -s 10 Restart-Service -name SNMP Note: The...
One way to minimize the number of policies was to build a worklet that I’m using to apply security baseline changes to workstations. More importantly I’m using multiple PowerShell functions to...
I’m glad you guys do things like this it’s awesome. At my company we like to do a weekly restart for all machines on Friday at midnight besides our Police Department for the obvious reasons just so...