The Euro’08 countdown starts
romanus September 8, 2008
Hi Folks,
The ManageEngine Euro Roadshow 2008 begins today. Its an exclusive opportunity to meet, converge, and communicate with leading industry technicians and administrators working in the same line as you, sharing your interests, focus, and even challenges. IT peers share their work experience and in-depth knowledge about various industry products, real-time scenarios, and best practices. Learn, discuss, and exchange your experiences with the other attendees, ManageEngine Executives and Partners. Everything mentioned above is possible in the ManageEngine Euro Roadshow 2008. So don’t miss it..
Register for Euro UserMeet.
http://manageengine.adventnet.com/euroroadshow/registration.html
Check the agenda of ManageEngine Euro Roadshow 2008.
http://manageengine.adventnet.com/euroroadshow/agenda.html
See you in the show.
cheers
romanus
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Hi Folks
Here is the Hotfix release for this week from Desktop Central. You can download from the below link
http://bonitas.adventnet.com/desktopcentral/08Sep2008/ManageEngine_Desktop_Central_6_0_0_SP-2_12.ppm
DC Server Build : 60212 - Agent Version : 6.2.8
Please find the instructions to install the hotfix.
Feature Enhancements/Bug Fixes:
- Enhancement in Asset Scanning error notification.
- Issues fixed in Remote shutdown.
- Error while editing custom group is fixed
Cheers
Romanus
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Hi Folks
Here is the latest release of Hotfix from Desktop Central. Please find the instructions to install the hotfix.
http://bonitas.adventnet.com/desktopcentral/29Aug2008/ManageEngine_Desktop_Central_6_0_0_SP-2_11.ppm
DC Server Build : 60211 - Agent Version : 6.2.7
Feature Enhancements:
1. Patch Management
- Shutdown functionality added in Patch Installs
- Scheduler enhancement
2. Remote Control
- New RDS setting is added
- Provision to end ‘Windows Remote Desktop’ connection and ‘Connect Anyway’ (Specific to Windows XP)
2. Active Directory Reports
- Scheduler enhancements
Bug Fixes:
Active Directory Reports - Issue in displaying OUs with same name is fixed.
Cheers
Romanus
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In the new release (SP2) of Desktop Central, support for managing desktops in WAN is added. With this release enterprises can easily manage their branch offices at different locations and Roaming Users like Sales or Marketing people desktops. Please read the below Press Release for more details
AdventNet Upgrades Desktop Central to Support Managing Desktops in WAN — Branch Offices & Roaming Users
ManageEngine Desktop Central Can Now Manage Desktops Spread Across the Globe From a Central Location
Pleasanton, California, August 5, 2008
AdventNet Inc. today announced the new release of Desktop Central, a Windows Desktop Management software, which helps enterprises in managing their desktops spread across the globe from a central location. Now, it is easy to patch, deploy software, take control of remote computers, and manage assets of all the branch office computers. The new release helps administrators to secure and standardize desktops from a single point irrespective of their physical location, thus saving huge time and effort.
Some of the highlights of this release include:
- Central management of desktops across branches and of roaming users.
- Uses secured communication via HTTPS/SSL — No dedicated VPN connection is required.
- Enables users to make help desk requests directly from their computers without requiring them to send an email or by logging into the help desk application
“We have more than 250 users with 7 branches. It was a difficult task to support those users desktop by a limited number of technicians. Using Desktop Central’s WAN solution it has become easy to support the users across all branches for trouble shooting, software installation, asset management, or patch management — it is like instant support to the users, which helps our IT department keep our users smiling. Now we can support our users instantly whether they are in Head office, branch office or in roaming,” says Akthar Gerab National Enterprises, a satisfied customer.
“Adding support for managing desktops in WAN is a significant milestone as it helps enterprises to avoid having multiple instances of Desktop Central thereby reducing the total cost of ownership,” said Mathivanan Venkatachalam, Director - Product Development at AdventNet. “As many organizations have a global presence for their business needs, the new release of Desktop Central will help them to manage their desktops with ease,” he added.
Availability and Pricing
The latest release of Desktop Central can be downloaded directly from our website (http://www.desktopcentral.com/?prjul08). Desktop Central offers a free 30-day evaluation license of the Professional Edition. A permanent Free Edition is also available for small businesses. The annual subscription price for the Professional Edition starts at $995 for 100 systems.
About Desktop Central
Desktop Central is a complete Desktop Management Software that provides Software Deployment, Patch Management, Service Pack Installation, Asset Management, Remote Control, Configurations, System Tools, User Logon Reports and Active Directory Reports. It is a network-neutral solution that can be used to manage desktops in Active Directory, Workgroups, or other directory services based networks like Novell® eDirectory.
About AdventNet
Enabling Management Your Way™
AdventNet provides affordable software in the areas of network applications and database tools. With a broad product portfolio and an active customer base ranging from enterprises, equipment vendors and service providers, AdventNet has emerged as a very affordable and high-quality alternative to expensive software that is common in the industry. AdventNet is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA with offices in NJ, MA, India, UK, China and Japan and has a well-trained partner base around the globe. Visit us at www.adventnet.com
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We are happy to announce the Desktop Central Free Windows Tools Release 1.2. This new release has a new tool called Join/Unjoin Computer Tool. This utility move a computer from one domain to another or from a domain to a workgroup or from a workgroup to a domain. It also provides the ability to restart the computer after this operation. The status of the operation is also displayed at the bottom of the window.
You can download the latest version from
http://manageengine.adventnet.com/products/free-windows-tools/free-windows-tools.html
Please try the tool and send your feedback
Thanks
Mathi
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Desktop Central 2007
mathi December 24, 2007
Over all the year 2007 was good for Desktop Central ! We have released DC 6 with our new architecture which supports Work-group and multiple active directory domains. Even though it is released in the last quarter of the year we got a very good response for this new release. We have added Inventory (asset management) feature in the second quarter of this year, it provides complete hardware and software inventory. In the software part, it provides software licensing, metering and compliance. Many customers are using this feature effectively and asking more enhancements. We have enhanced the software deployment feature with Run as, copy option, support for EXE, etc. This is another important feature used by our customers. We have strengthened other features like Patch Management, Configurations, User Logon Reports, AD Reports and tools.
Also we have released a new “free windows tools” which includes Wake On LAN, Shutdown/Restart tool, Remote GPO Update, Software Inventory tool and Join/Unjoin computer tool. We are planning to add more such free tools. These tools will help the administrator during troubleshooting and managing windows desktops.
To summarize, we were busy releasing new features and supporting our customers. It is happy to see a lot of new features in our product and many people are using them ! Without our customers’ cooperation it is impossible to achieve this, my sincere thanks to all our customers.
More challenges are ahead for the year 2008, we are happy to take them up and solve one by one !
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2008 !
Thanks
Mathi
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RPC Server Unavailable ?
mathi December 10, 2007
WMI is one of the coolest technologies provided by Microsoft !
If it is configured properly in all windows computers then
we can leverage its advantages and perform lot of desktop management
functionalities. Desktop Central recently released a KB article
to configure WMI in all computers, for details please refer the KB article
Thanks
Mathi
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Desktop Central 6 is Released
mathi November 2, 2007
Dear All,
The much expected Desktop Central 6 is Released !!! Thanks for your active participation in the beta testing program. Most of your feedback are incorporated in our final release.
The highlights of this new release are,
1. Support for multiple domains
2. Support for work-group
3. Ability to manage domain computers without domain admin credential
4. Option to group users or computers as per your need.
Please download it from http://www.desktopcentral.com/download.html
Please send your feedback to support@desktopcentral.com
Thanks
Mathi
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We take immense pleasure to introduce the Free Windows Tools ! The first release has 3 tools:
Wake on LAN Tool - It will wake (boot) up the remote computers
Shutdown / Restart Tool - It will shutdown or Restart the remote computers
GPO Update Tool - It will invoke the “Gpupdate” tool for the given remote computers
For more details please visit
Please send your feedback to support@desktopcentral.com
Thanks
Mathi
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Wake On LAN !!!
mathi September 4, 2007
[ <b>Mood:</b> Cool ]<br />[ <b>Currently:</b> Working ]<br />Usually Patch, SP or Software Deployment will be done during non office hours or week ends. Administrators can’t expect all machines are up and ready the for that task. If few machines are down it is tedious for the administrator to do boot up manually. So if an automated tool is available for this task then it is very useful for the administrator. It will reduce lot of administrator’s time !
Desktop Central has introduced a new feature called Wake On LAN tool which will boot up the remote computers on the scheduled period. It will ease the Patch, SP or Software Deployment. Please try it and send your feedback
http://www.desktopcentral.com/download.html
Thanks
Mathi
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