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Mobile devices are a dominant way people access information and when something goes wrong, it’s often the first device you have available. Today, MeshCentral has a significant new improvement to the mobile web site that allows full control over a remote desktop from a mobile device. This is going to be incredibly practical for administrators and technicians that are on the go. In addition to this, we have a new server maintenance mode and improved support for international keyboards. In detail: Remote Desktop Control from Mobile Device . This is the big news. The MeshCentral mobile web site now includes a desktop viewer that can be used to fully control a remote desktop computer. You can move throughout the screen, mouse click using both buttons, toggle the on-screen keyboard, toggle zoom and send special keys like ctrl-alt-del to remotely login to a Windows machines. Look at the pictures below for details. In addition, Intel® AMT hardware KVM is supported, so you can remote control a ...

This week we got a pile more features added to MeshCentral. Four of them standout and so, we will talk about them here. We have a new system to upload one or more files to many remote devices at once, a new live graphic of the CPU and memory usage of remote systems, a new remote file search feature and finally support of international keyboard layouts on Windows. Lots of improvements this week. In detail: Upload files to multiple devices at once . If you want to upload a batch of files to many remote systems all at once, generally you upload to each device one at a time. With the latest MeshCentral administrators can now check many devices, hit the “Group Action” button, select one or more files and a destination path. MeshCentral will then receive the files and start uploading them to each device in a single step. It’s faster and a more efficient this way to perform this operation as the file is sent to the server only once. Live CPU and memory graph . This has been requested by users...

MeshCommander is a web-based Intel® AMT management console that includes remote desktop, terminal, disk redirection and much more. MeshCommander v0.9.0 was published recently and includes updates to the MSI, NPM and Firmware versions of MeshCommander. As users know, MeshCommander is available in many different flavors to suite different usages and platforms. For the first time yesterday, MeshCommander now offers a multi-language solution for replacing the Intel AMT built-in WebUI with a web page in a non-English language. In addition, v0.9.0 includes many bug fixes and full support for IPv6. In detail: Firmware Edition . The firmware edition of MeshCommander replaces the built-in Intel AMT web pages with a much more powerful web app that includes a KVM viewer, WSMAN stack, VT100 terminal and IDER support. For the first time, the firmware loader for MeshCommander comes with the “Standard” and “Advanced” version of the web application for 11 different languages. So, a total of 22 web ap...

This week we have many more new features published into MeshCentral, more than we can list here but there are a select few of special interest. Probably the most interesting feature this week are improvements to guest remote desktop sharing where you can share a device with a guest for a limited time using only a URL. In addition to this, the widely used MeshCentral Router tool got an upgrade and is now completely replacing the ClickOnce router that was only supported in Internet Explorer. In detail:   Guest Remote Desktop Link Revocation . As users of MeshCentral know, you can create a time limited link that you can give to someone else to take control of a computer on MeshCentral with no account required. Now, we improved this feature by allowing users to revoke the sharing link at any time. In addition, when a link is revoked, all guest users that are currently using the link will be immediately disconnected. This is a security improvement, but also allows for creating sharing l...