We are right on track with our beta – Network Administrator Beta 4 has been released.
You can get a copy of the beta from here:
As I wrote last week, we were working on the remote execute engine within Network Administrator. I am pleased to say that it is complete.
As a result of that implementation we were able to add two new plugins. They are:
Change Network Settings
Switch a computer to DHCP, or update the DNS Settings to different servers
Remote Execute
This allows you to remotely execute a vbscript, batch file, MSI installer (It automatically makes it quiet for you), or command line program. This is a very powerful addition, since it gives you the ability to create a script, and push it across all the machines on your network. One other point to note about this is that this will be faster than you doing this yourself from the command line using tools like PSExec. This is because Network Administrator will spawn more than one process at a time to accomplish your task.
If you missed my post last week, we promised 10 plugins by the time we release on October 30th. In addition to the two I just discussed, here is what we have created so far:
Mass Folder Copy – This plugin allows you to pick a folder on your hard drive, and copy it to many machines across your network. Perfect way to copy a set of shortcuts to everyone’s desktop.
Offline Files Disabler – Disables the annoying offline files setting in Windows XP, and 2003.
Logon Disclaimer – Allows you to set a logon disclaimer that is displayed to a user before they login.
Wallpaper Set – You can set a common background wallpaper image, and set options such as tile, stretch, and center.
One of our next plugins will allow you to change the password of a local admin user account. It is easy to change an Active Directory user account, but when an admin leaves, you still have those local account passwords floating around. This would allow you to change it in a few moments – across your entire network.
Get your suggestion in by mailing us at plugins@intelliadmin.com We cannot answer all of the emails sent, but we do read them all.
Give it a spin, and let us know what you think.
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This release is looking good Steve. Have a question: You have a tool that allows you to set the auto-login information for a computer…are you thinking about adding that as a plugin, so I can set this across all of my training computers in the lab?
Not sure if we can do it for the final beta…we have have been implementing the most popular requests first. If enough people request it, it will make it into the release before October 30th.
If not…it will be in before the end of the year. We will continue building plugins and releasing them monthly.
It will better if Network Administrator can remotely start/stop/restart/disable/enable windows service such as system restore & windows firewall and enable/disable security flaws such as run command, registry editor & task manager.
Also plug-in to create/delete windows services and files or folders remotely, remotely editing/compare/merge registry and remotely start/kill/restart service on task manager
Steve, Its lookin GOOD!
I se you got copyfolder.. have software that clients use that has a plugin folder that I compile the updated Dll file for often. trouble is that I must unregister the old(time consuming), copy new file(fast now), then re-register DLL(slow again because I have to do each machine)
The ability to register a DLL file, or better yet, execute a Console command(with returned results) would be awesome, and probably not that hard to add to your new plugin based beta what do you think?
Rob Brown