My friend Mike emailed me: “Hey Steve, I thought I might pass along another tool from Nirsoft. I just used it to solve a random crash issue I had with one of our remote servers. It would crash intermittently, and I could never get the staff to look at the machine before they cycled the [...]
I got a question from Darren: “Steve, been using the free edition of Network Administrator. Nice tool, but it is missing something we need. I see you have the ability to shutdown and reboot systems, but what about logging off users?” Good question. I remember when I would do after hours upgrades – and one [...]
I have been getting lots of questions from everyone, and that is great This week I got a question from Charles, “Hello Steve, I have a problem, I need to run a VB Script that will tell users that their password needs to be changed in x days. The Windows 7 balloon is not effective, [...]
We just released Beta 5 of Enterprise Remote Control. Here are the download links: Enterprise Server Download (1.0.0.105) Agent Download (5.481) Viewer Download (5.0.0.170) What is it? – Let me tell you. Ever have trouble supporting a remote user because it is too hard to get to their machine? You know what I am talking [...]
On one of our servers we have a batch processing program. It is old and clunky, but it gets the job done. An irritating bug it has is that it leaves temp files around in the c:\windows\temp folder. One day we noticed the server was getting slow – finally realized that the temp folder had [...]
We have put the finishing touches on beta 3. To recap: Enterprise remote control is software that allows you to control computers from anywhere. No need to open ports, or get someones IP address. With a few clicks you can support your users – even if they are across the country in a hotel on [...]
Many of you have been asking when we will release beta 3. I don’t have a release date, but it will be before the end of the month. If your beta has expired, let us know and we can get you a reset. For background info…here are the previous posts about the beta Part 1: [...]
We have not said much about Enterprise Remote Control since Beta 1. That is because we have had our heads down in our keyboards busy improving and fixing. Before I get into what has been updated, where we are going, etc…I want you to know that during the beta you can get an unlimited copy [...]
A few weeks back we released Remote Control 4.4. Since that time, we have received reports of a few more issues that needed to be corrected: -Mouse movements were not shown on the remote side -ALT Key getting stuck in certain situations when CTRL-ALT-INS was pressed -CAPS lock not being transmitted during remote control session [...]
Hello All, A quick post to let you know that we have released Remote Control 4.4. This is a bug-fix release. We made sure we cleared through all of the issues raised by current customers before moving forward with anything new. Here is what we fixed: -Shutdown under Vista/Windows7/2008 does not disconnect the remote client [...]