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As I had mentioned previously, PowerShell can also be used to view

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system health and user activity information.

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So to view system health,

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the command to do that is Get‑RemoteAccessHealth, and this will give

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you a high‑level overview of the system health.

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Now you'll see there's a lot of these that don't apply and they show as

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Disabled in the HealthState, so you can actually filter out any output

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where HealthState is set to Disabled to eliminate some of that noise.

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That cleans that up just a little bit.

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So anyway,

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this information can be used programmatically to determine system health.

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You can also use PowerShell to view user activity.

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So if we want to look at the remote access connection summary or the

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connection statistics summary, the PowerShell command for that is

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Get‑RemoteAccessConnectionStatisticsSummary.

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And here you'll see this outputs the same information that

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we saw in the UI, our TotalConnections, our

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TotalUniqueUsers, MaximumConcurrentConnections,

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the total amount of data that's been transferred, and so forth.

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And, again, this comes from the same data repository, and as I had

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mentioned before, when you're looking at this in the UI, all of these

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numbers get reset if the service is restarted or if the VPN server is

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rebooted, and that same applies here.

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So if you're looking at this data,

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this is all valuable data since the last time the service

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was restarted or the system was rebooted.

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We can actually also use PowerShell to look at current sessions, and

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that command is Get‑RemoteAccessConnectionStatistics. And here you'll

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see all of the current active sessions.

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If you'd like to look at what's available to you in each of these sessions,

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we'll filter it by an individual user, and here you have all of the

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information that's in that individual record that you can report on.

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And finally,

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you can actually view historical data using the

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Get‑RemoteAccessConnectionStatistics command.

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You just need to supply a start date and an end date, and it will pull up all of the historical information during that timeframe.