If you have websites that you're in charge of maintaining the SSL certificates for, you can monitor them for expiring certificates using this PowerShell script. The script can be run from anywhere, as it connects to the public URL for the website, and it will email the results wherever you like. You can set it up to email yourself, or you can configure it to email the results to CheckCentral so that you can automate the status parsing.

Setting Up the Check Schedule

1. On your CheckCentral dashboard, click the "New Check" link.
2. Give the Check a name. It can be whatever you like, for example "Website Certificate Expiry Check."
3. Choose an existing Check Group to add this check to, or create a new one if you like, by clicking "New Group."
4. For this guide, we'll assume that you're going to run the script every day. In order for CheckCentral to notify you when the Check is overdue (e.g. if the script didn't run as scheduled, or got hung up on its last run), you'll want to configure the "Emails are expected every" setting to "1 Day."
5. Notice that there's nowhere to assign the time of day that the email is expected. This is because CheckCentral will automatically adjust the expected time based on when the last email arrived. If your script runs at 9am and finishes at 9:01am today, then the next email will be expected at 9:01am tomorrow. In case the script runs slightly late one day, you can configure the Check to only notify you if the email is late by more than a certain amount of time. We'll leave it at the default of 30 minutes for this example, which means that you won't get an "Overdue" notification until 9:31am tomorrow. This allows an extra 30 minutes for the script to run before any action is taken.
6. The Description field is optional, but can be helpful for documentation purposes.

The Check Information Section

Configuring the Matching Rules

7. The "Matching Rules" section is where you'll tell CheckCentral which emails should be processed by this Check. By default, the Check's email address will be populated with a custom email address based on the Check name. For this example we'll change it to "demo+certexpirycheck@mycheckcentral.cc." You'll see where this gets used later in this guide.

The Matching Rules Section

Configuring the Status Rules

8. In the "Status" section, you'll set what you want the default status to be when an email matches the check, but doesn't match any of the Success/Warning/Failure rules. Generally it's best to leave this set to Failure, then specify your Success and Warning criteria. This way it's only marked as successful or warning if it matches your given rules, anything else is marked as a failure so that you get notified and can investigate further.
9. The "Success Rules" section is where you'll set the criteria that will mark the Activity as successful. Click the "Add Success Rule" link. A successful run (no certificates expiring soon) of the script will have the word "Success" in the email Subject, so we'll set the rule to "Subject contains Success"
10. The "Warning Rules" section is where you'll set the criteria that will mark the Activity as a warning. Click the "Add Warning Rule" link. The email notification for a the script will have the word "Warn" in the email Subject if one or more certificates are expiring soon, so well set the rule to "Subject contains Warn"

The Status Rules Section

Configuring Notifications

11. In the Notifications section, you can choose how to you want to be notified about changes to the status of this Check. In this example, enabling the checkbox for "Email" will send an email when the Check status changes, to everyone on the CheckCentral Organization > Users page that has Email notifications enabled. If there are consecutive Success emails, a notification won't be sent every time, only when the status changes from Success to Warning/Failure, and back.
12. Click the "Save Check" button to finish setting up this Check.

The Notifications Section

Setting Up the Script

13. Now that our Check is setup in CheckCentral, we'll need to setup the script on a machine that can run it every day. First, download the script: CheckWebsiteCertExpiry.zip, and extract it to somewhere on your computer. (e.g. C:\Scripts)
14. Go to the new folder (e.g. C:\Scripts\CheckWebsiteCertExpiry) and edit websites.txt with the list of websites you want to check. Make sure to put one URL on each line.
15. Open a PowerShell console and run the script to make sure it works. For example:

    .\CheckWebsiteCertExpiry.ps1 -Websites (Get-Content websites.txt) -EmailFromAddress <Email From Address> -EmailToAddress <Check Email Address from Step 7>

16. Now refresh the Check page for the Check you created and you should see the new Activity that was sent in by the script.
17. You're ready to setup the Windows Scheduled Task now, so that the script will run automatically every day. First, edit the parameters at the top of the "CreateScheduledTask.ps1" script and save the changes.
18. Open an administrative PowerShell console and run .\CreateScheduledTask.ps1.
19. If everything was successful, you should see the new Scheduled Task in the Windows Task Scheduler. Double-check that the schedule looks good, then run it and verify that a second Activity shows up in the CheckCentral Check.

As always, if you run into any trouble configuring your Checks, please feel free to contact us and we'll be glad to help out.

Congratulations to our top contributing members for January 2019! They have been hard at work submitting, rating, and discussing images on WallpaperFusion, and have racked up some impressive reputation scores along the way!

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We're very excited to announce the release of the all-new app selector in your CloudShow dashboard. When you're editing a device or template and selecting an app, the app selector gives you some new options.

All Apps

The most noticeable change is that all apps are grouped together alphabetically to make finding your app easier.

App Filtering

The advanced filtering in the app selector window means you can quickly filter down the apps to the ones you're looking for.

Recommended Apps

There is now a 'Recommended Apps' section at the top of the app selector window. This new section shows apps that support the files you have uploaded in your Content area. For example, if you upload some images and videos, the Image Slideshow and Video Player apps will be listed here for easy access.

Check it Out!

Check out the all-new app selector on your CloudShow dashboard today! And as always, if you would like to see an app that we're missing feel free to contact us.

We're very excited to announce that DisplayFusion 9.5 Beta 1 is now available for download! This version is mostly bug fixes for issues from 9.4.3.

Important Notes!

• The first time you open the Settings > Screen Saver tab after installing 9.5 Beta 1, it will be very slow to open, due to Windows Defender locking the .scr files for a long time during the initial scan.
• We've made a change to how refresh rates are set with Monitor Profiles. If you run into trouble with your profiles after updating, you may need to re-save them.
• WallpaperFusion is now limited to slideshow intervals of 15 minutes or higher to reduce costs.

DisplayFusion 9.5 Beta 1 Highlights

• Fixed a couple of Chrome issues with Monitor Splitting
• The "Mirror Selected Area" function now works correctly when run via key combination
• Updated Google Photos wallpaper source to the new API, as the old one is shutdown
• Added search support for WallpaperAbyss wallpaper source
• Fixed an issue with Image Info when using tag
• Fixed the filter box in the WallpaperFusion tag selector
• Using "Move Window to Next Monitor" on Remote Desktop windows now moves the connection bar as well
• Fixed an issue where some refresh rates couldn't be set, note that you may need to re-save your Monitor Profiles.
• Resolved an issue where Monitor Configuration wouldn't apply on some systems (including VMware with guest 3D acceleration disabled)

Updating DisplayFusion

We encourage everyone to update to this new version today to take advantage of these improvements. If you've already purchased DisplayFusion, it's a lifetime license, so you can upgrade to this version at no cost! If you would like to see a complete list of all the changes, please visit the DisplayFusion Beta Change Log.

We're pleased to announce several updates to CheckCentral, with improvements to Check schedules and dashboard interaction.

We have streamlined the frequency settings for checks, with options for simple and advanced scheduling. With advanced schedules, you can now specify both a daily time window to expect emails, and choose which days of the week emails will be sent.

As well, check filters on your dashboard can now be bookmarked, as the filter will be remembered when refreshing the page or sharing the URL. Also, filtering the checks on your CheckCentral dashboard will only display checks from uncollapsed groups, solving an issue that resulted in displaying all checks from a group when uncollapsing it with filters applied.

Additionally, the CheckCentral Data API can now return the recent history of a check's activity if requested.

If you have feedback or questions about these updates or any aspect of CheckCentral, please let us know!

Congratulations to our top contributing members for December 2018! They have been hard at work submitting, rating, and discussing images on WallpaperFusion, and have racked up some impressive reputation scores along the way!

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We're very excited to announce that DisplayFusion 9.4.3 is now available for download! This version fixes a few issues with the recent 9.4 and 9.4.1 release and adds some new tweaks. This version is a very minor release, visit the news post for 9.4.1 for more information on the big changes since 9.4.

Important Notes!

• The first time you open the Settings > Screen Saver tab after installing 9.4.3, it will be very slow to open, due to Windows Defender locking the .scr files for a long time during the initial scan.

DisplayFusion 9.4.3 Highlights

• Resolved some issues with the command generator/parser from the 9.3/9.4 releases

Updating DisplayFusion

We encourage everyone to update to this new version today to take advantage of these improvements. If you've already purchased DisplayFusion, it's a lifetime license, so you can upgrade to this version at no cost! If you would like to see a complete list of all the changes, please visit the DisplayFusion Change Log. We'd like to send out a big thanks to the dozens of people who helped with the DisplayFusion translations, and the thousands of people that helped test the Beta versions. Thanks everyone!

DisplayFusion 9.4.3 Screenshots

We're very excited to announce that DisplayFusion 9.4.2 is now available for download! This version fixes a few issues with the recent 9.4 and 9.4.1 release and adds some new tweaks. This version is a very minor release, visit the news post for 9.4.1 for more information on the big changes since 9.4.

Important Notes!

• The first time you open the Settings > Screen Saver tab after installing 9.4.2, it will be very slow to open, due to Windows Defender locking the .scr files for a long time during the initial scan.

DisplayFusion 9.4.2 Highlights

• Resolved an issue that prevented the hotkeys from binding correctly

Updating DisplayFusion

We encourage everyone to update to this new version today to take advantage of these improvements. If you've already purchased DisplayFusion, it's a lifetime license, so you can upgrade to this version at no cost! If you would like to see a complete list of all the changes, please visit the DisplayFusion Change Log. We'd like to send out a big thanks to the dozens of people who helped with the DisplayFusion translations, and the thousands of people that helped test the Beta versions. Thanks everyone!

DisplayFusion 9.4.2 Screenshots

We're very excited to announce that DisplayFusion 9.4.1 is now available for download! This version fixes a few issues with the recent 9.4 release and adds some new tweaks.

Important Notes!

• The first time you open the Settings > Screen Saver tab after installing 9.4.1, it will be very slow to open, due to Windows Defender locking the .scr files for a long time during the initial scan.

DisplayFusion 9.4.1 Highlights

• Re-enabled Chrome hooks to fix Window Snapping
• Added an advanced setting to disable the Maximized Window Dragging text messages
• Some apps no longer fail to maximize on splits if the Windows taskbar is vertical
• Folder shortcuts with a trailing slash now open correctly
• "Desktop Unlocked" and "Desktop Locked" Trigger events are more reliable now, and have a 1 second delay
• Resolved some minor memory usage and performance issues from 9.4
• Alt+Tab compatibility improvements
• Taskbar compatibility improvements
• TitleBar Button compatibility improvements

Updating DisplayFusion

We encourage everyone to update to this new version today to take advantage of these improvements. If you've already purchased DisplayFusion, it's a lifetime license, so you can upgrade to this version at no cost! If you would like to see a complete list of all the changes, please visit the DisplayFusion Change Log. We'd like to send out a big thanks to the dozens of people who helped with the DisplayFusion translations, and the thousands of people that helped test the Beta versions. Thanks everyone!

DisplayFusion 9.4.1 Screenshots

We're very excited to announce that DisplayFusion 9.4 is now available for download!

Important Notes!

• The first time you open the Settings > Screen Saver tab after installing 9.4, it will be very slow to open, due to Windows Defender locking the .scr files for a long time during the initial scan.

DisplayFusion 9.4 Highlights

• Functions: Added the ability to export/import Custom Functions
• Functions: New Function: Mirror Selected Area
• General: Chrome is now blocking all application hooks, DisplayFusion now works around this
• General: Universal apps are now hooked correctly when first opened
• Monitor Config: Fixed an issue with setting higher refresh rates on some monitors
• Monitor Fading: Added an option to ignore monitors that have a full screen window
• Monitor Fading: Monitor Fading can now ignore monitor splits
• Monitor Splitting: When dragging a maximized window to move it, it now restores to the correct size
• Mouse Management: Added an option to prevent the mouse from sticking in Windows 10 Sticky Corners
• Screen Saver: Mouse cursor no longer sits visible above the DisplayFusion screen savers
• Taskbar and Alt+Tab: No longer shows windows on other Windows 10 desktops
• Triggers: Added a "Delay before checking Match Conditions" option, so that you can check window titles that take a few seconds to load (e.g. website page titles in browser windows)
• Wallpaper: Combined wallpaper configurations no longer get messed-up if a monitor sleeps/disconnects and reconnects
• Wallpaper: Provider updates for Facebook, Vladstudio, and Unsplash
• Wallpaper: Wallpaper fixes when Oculus Rift is running
• Window Management: New option for always maximizing windows that are dropped on split monitors
• 48 languages bundled (if you'd like to help translate DisplayFusion into your language, please contact us)
• Many other performance, stability, and bug fixes

Updating DisplayFusion

We encourage everyone to update to this new version today to take advantage of these improvements. If you've already purchased DisplayFusion, it's a lifetime license, so you can upgrade to this version at no cost! If you would like to see a complete list of all the changes, please visit the DisplayFusion Change Log. We'd like to send out a big thanks to the dozens of people who helped with the DisplayFusion translations, and the thousands of people that helped test the Beta versions. Thanks everyone!

DisplayFusion 9.4 Screenshots