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Alright!! now that’s out of the way I’m going to keep this short and simple

Scope : –

Install OpenVPN client
import profile with username and password
connect to your preferred VPN server

Use case : –

Secure your fireTV traffic using any OpenVPN supported VPN services=

Connect to your home file server/NAS and stream files when traveling via your FireTV or Firestick using your own VPN server (not covered in this article)

Watch Streaming services when traveling using your own VPN server (not covered in this article)

Guide :-

Project Summary

Hardware – FireTV 4K Latest firmware

Platform – Windows 10 Enterprise

in this guide im using ADB to install OpenVPN client on my fireTV and use that to connect to the NORDVPN service

All Project files are located on C:NoRDVPN

Files Needed (Please download these files to your workstation before proceeding)

OpenVPN client APK – http://plai.de/android/

NORDVPN OpenVPN configuration files – https://nordvpn.com/ovpn/

ADBLink – http://jocala.com

01. Enable Developer mode on Fire tv

http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-enable-adb-debugging-on-an-amazon-fire-tv-or-fire-tv-stick/

From the Fire TV or Fire TV Stick’s home screen, scroll to “Settings”.
Next, scroll to the right and select “Device”.
Next, scroll down and select “Developer options”.
Then select “ADB debugging” to turn the option to “ON”.

02. Install OpenVPN client via the network using ADBLInk

Install the ADBlink program

Download URL – http://jocala.com

Create Device profile and connect

Launch ADBLink and click on “New”

Fill out the information

Notes –

Address – this is the IP assigned to your FireTV you can get this from the fireTV Network status page under

“Settings”.> “System”.> “About” > “Network”

You can also get this information from your ARP table, DHCP leases on your DHCP server, etc

Leave everything else with default values and save the profile

Install APK using ADBLINK

Browse to the location you download all files to and select the OpenVPN APk file

In this guide the location is “C:NoRDVPN”

After a successful install, you will be greeted with the following dialog box

02. Configure and copy(ADB Push) OVPN configuration files

this step is very important

02-01 Create Login configuration files

Under the same folder where you downloaded files Example – C:NoRDVPN

create a text file with the following name – login.conf

Edit the file with your favorite text editor

Enter your NORDVPN credentials in two separate lines (Email address and password)

Save Changes

02-02 Edit the VPN configuration file

Open the VPN configuration files in my case, I picked a US server so my filename is

us226.nordvpn.com.udp1194.ovpn

File the line that reads “auth-user-pass” and replace it with “auth-user-pass login.conf“

Save Changes

02. Push configuration files to the FireTV

Click on “File Manager” on adbLink

Notes – By Default, it will connect to the root of the SDcard on your FireTV

Create a folder (I’m going to call it NORD_VPN)

Find the created “NORD_VPN” folder and double click on it via the left window pane

Click on “Push”

Browse to the folder (C:/NoRDVPN) and select the two configuration files

Note –

Use Shift to select multiple files

Files will be pushed out to the FireTV as soon as you select Choose

Now we are done with the work from your workstation

By the time you reach this step you will have completed the following

Installed OpenVPN on the FireTV system

Customized the VPN configuration files

Copied the VPN configuration files to the Root of the SDcard on the FireTV system

Note – Next steps are really simple and you only need the fireTV remote to complete these

03. Import VPN profile on FireTV and connect

Browse to your Apps and Games > See All

Select and launch OpenVPN Client

Use the + sign to add a profile

Click Import

Browse and Select the ovpn configuration file using the browser

Click on the imported VPN profile to initiate the connection

Under the “Settings” Tab make sure “use System proxy” is enabled

Now your fireTV is routing traffic via the VPN

This is the only outbound connection from the FireTV connecting to the NORDVPN server IP via openVPN port UDP 1194

You can find this IP in the configuration file or by going to the OpenVPN logs Tab

Until next time….Stay Awesome Internetz : )

I put together this crude little script to send out a report on a daily basis

it’s not that fancy but its functional

I’m working on the second revision with an HTML body, lists of corrupted files, Resource usage, more features will be added as I dive further into Dedupe CMDlets.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848450.aspx

Link to the Script – Dedupe_report.ps1

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/bltp675prlz1slo/Dedupe_report_Rev2_pub.txt

If you have any suggestions for improvements please comment and share with everyone

# Malinda Ratnayake | 2016
# Can only be run on Windows Server 2012 R2
#
# Get the date and set the variable
$Now = Get-Date
# Import the cmdlets
Import-Module Deduplication
#
$logFile01 = "C:_ScriptsLogsDedupe_Report.txt"
#
# Get the cluster vip and set to variable
$HostName = (Get-WmiObject win32_computersystem).DNSHostName+"."+(Get-WmiObject win32_computersystem).Domain
#
#$OS = Get-Host {$_.WindowsProductName}
#
# delete previous days check
del $logFile01
#
Out-File "$logFile01" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "Dedupication Report for $HostName" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "`n$Now" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "`n" -Encoding ASCII
#
# Get-DedupJob
Add-Content $logFile01 "Deduplication job Queue" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "__________________________________________________________________________" -Encoding ASCII
Get-DedupJob | Format-Table -AutoSize | Out-File -append  -Encoding ASCII $logFile01
Add-Content $logFile01 "`n" -Encoding ASCII
#
# Get-DedupSchedule
Add-Content $logFile01 "Deduplication Schedule" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "__________________________________________________________________________" -Encoding ASCII
Get-DedupSchedule | Format-Table -AutoSize | Out-File -append  -Encoding ASCII $logFile01
#
#Last Optimization Result and time
Add-Content $logFile01 "Last Optimization Result and time" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "__________________________________________________________________________" -Encoding ASCII
Get-DedupStatus | Select-Object  LastOptimizationTime ,LastOptimizationResultMessage | Format-Table -Wrap | Out-File -append  -Encoding ASCII $logFile01
#
#
#Last Garbage Collection Result and Time
Add-Content $logFile01 "Last Garbage Collection Result and Time" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "__________________________________________________________________________" -Encoding ASCII
Get-DedupStatus | Select-Object LastGarbageCollectionTime ,LastGarbageCollectionResultMessage | Format-Table -Wrap | Out-File -append  -Encoding ASCII $logFile01
#
# Get-DedupVolume
$DedupVolumeLetter = Get-DedupVolume | select -ExpandProperty Volume
Add-Content $logFile01 "Deduplication Enabled Volumes" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "__________________________________________________________________________" -Encoding ASCII
Get-DedupVolume | Format-Table -AutoSize | Out-File -append  -Encoding ASCII $logFile01
Add-Content $logFile01 "Volume $DedupVolumeLetter Details -  " -Encoding ASCII
Get-DedupVolume | FL | Out-File -append  -Encoding ASCII $logFile01
Add-Content $logFile01 "`n" -Encoding ASCII
#
# Get-DedupStatus
Add-Content $logFile01 "Deduplication Summary" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "__________________________________________________________________________" -Encoding ASCII
Get-DedupStatus | Format-Table -AutoSize | Out-File -append  -Encoding ASCII $logFile01
Add-Content $logFile01 "Deduplication Status Details" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "__________________________________________________________________________" -Encoding ASCII
Get-DedupStatus | FL | Out-File -append  -Encoding ASCII $logFile01
Add-Content $logFile01 "`n" -Encoding ASCII
#
# Get-DedupMetadata
Add-Content $logFile01 "Deduplication MetaData" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "__________________________________________________________________________" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "note - details about how deduplication processed the data on volume $DedupVolumeLetter " -Encoding ASCII
Get-DedupMetadata | FL | Out-File -append  -Encoding ASCII $logFile01
Add-Content $logFile01 "`n" -Encoding ASCII
#
# Get-Dedupe Events
# Get-Dedupe Events - Resource usage - WIP
Add-Content $logFile01 "Deduplication Events" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "__________________________________________________________________________" -Encoding ASCII
Get-WinEvent -MaxEvents 10 -LogName Microsoft-Windows-Deduplication/Diagnostic | where ID -EQ "10243" | FL | Out-File -append  -Encoding ASCII $logFile01
Add-Content $logFile01 "`n" -Encoding ASCII
#
# Change the -To, -From and -SmtpServer values to match your servers.
$Emailbody = Get-Content -Path $logFile01
[string[]]$recipients = "[email protected]"
Send-MailMessage -To $recipients -From [email protected] -subject "File services - Deduplication Report : $HostName " -SmtpServer smtp-relay.gmail.com -Attachments $logFile01

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