UMRA – Active Directory Computer Event Logs Power Shell

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UMRA – Active Directory Computer Event Logs Power Shell

In most of my blogs I talk about how to edit and maintain active directory users, and other objects within a UMRA Web Portal however, sometimes you might want to monitor if someone is making changes directly within ADUNC itself. You might be using some tool, or VBScript to monition these now, however, these scripts are often very hard to update, or you might have downloaded something on line, that just doesn’t seem to work. The way to get around this is use UMRA and PowerShell to scan the Event Logs for specific information, or just pull up a complete log itself. I was able to built a quick and handy power shell script in UMRA that will do go into the logs of a specific computer and grab out the information, get any recent updates on the computer (what hot fix’s etc were installed), and even grab the event log from the computer, and this is all done with UMRA and PowerShell. How is this handy to you, you ask? Well, now you have the ability to get multiple computers log records at a time, or search a computer and get the records one by one. The PowerShell script was very easy to import into UMRA, once it was imported, I was able to use this script right away, and other users who have the ability to create scripts within UMRA also have the ability to use my PowerShell script I updated. This “Upload and Share” functionally makes UMRA a true powerhouse in development, now other Active Directory Powshell scripts you might have, or have been using, can be shared with other Active Directory Admins, easily and quickly.

Here are a few screen shots of what you can do with UMRA PowerShell.