The Microsoft Safety Scanner, formerly Emergency Response Tool is now fully integrated into ConnectWise Automate.
Microsoft Safety Scanner is a scan tool designed to find and remove malware from Windows computers. Simply Run scans to find malware and try to reverse changes made by identified threats.
Safety Scanner helps remove malicious software from computers running Windows 10, Windows 10 Tech Preview, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server Tech Preview, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Windows Server 2008.
As with most Habitat tools that have some automation, there is a global enable/disable switch in the main Habitat consoles Automated Services manager tool. You will need to enable the service before automated services are available.
Automated services will scan, repair or both when configured to do so at the Client consoles. Each client must be configured to scan or repair independently of the global automation. Visit each Client console to allow automation to scan the agents of the client. Just turning on the global automation services will not start scans on agents. Each client will need to be configured to allow scans and or repairs to a given agent. Disabling the global services will stop all automation for this tool across all clients but will not stop manual scans and repairs.
Client Console Tool Interface
Select an agent and then right click that agent to reveal menu of functions.
- Open Console - Opens agent console
- Enable Agent - Allow automated daily scans of the agent (Green is ON / Red is Off)
- Auto Repair Agent - If previous scan reports errors then next scan would run the repair flag for MSERT (Green is On / Red is Off)
- View Last Scan Log - Displays the last scan results from agent
- Scan Now - Schedule a script to scan agent now
- Repair Now - Schedule a script to run the repair function from MSERT now
The Client Console tool view shows each Microsoft agent and its current status by scan date. It shows the current configuration of an agent along with its current alarm status.
Alarm Status (Red is bad), You want to see green dots on each agent and a resent scan date. When an Alarm is good the expected log should look like the following image.
When the Alarm dot is red for an agent then view log should explain what it sees wrong.
You can manually and with Automation both scan and repair agents using the MSERT tool and its fully integrated into your Automate environment.