MeshCentral - Vacations, Email Notifications, Added Permissions, Windows 11, Security Fixes

I got back from vacations and starting up the regular releases of MeshCentral again. Plenty to catch up on. It’s been a while since I have taken significant vacations and took full advantage of this one. On the MeshCentral front, the community had been asking for email notifications when devices connect and/or disconnect from the server which was added in this week in addition to plenty more features and bug fixes. Bryan started testing Windows 11 which so far works almost as expected. In detail:

  • Vacations. On a personal note, I got back from a 19-day, 1420-mile road trip across the western Unites States stopping at 7 national parks. I do have a National Parks passport and collect stamps in each of them. In order, I visited Arches, Canyonlands, Bryce Canyon, Zion, Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree and the Red Woods. I had no idea some of these National Parks existed and they were all amazing. Walking 4 hours in the Zion narrows was my favorite part. I took no less then 1600 pictures and videos, so plenty to fill the archives. This is a road trip I highly recommend to anyone.
  • Email notifications of device state change. The community has been asking for a while for email notifications when devices connect and disconnect from the server. It’s useful to see if something goes wrong with devices and get quick notifications when this happens. MeshCentral now has this feature. Device state change events are accumulated for 5 minutes, then an email is sent out. Devices that reconnect within the 5-minute window will cancel out the notification event. So, rebooting a computer may not generate any emails. Enabling this feature is very easy and is done on a per-device group bases.
  • No new device account permission. At the community’s request, a new account permission was added that allows administrators to remove the “Add Agent” and agent invitation links from an account. This is useful if you want a user to be able to control devices, but not add new devices to a device group.
  • Microsoft Windows 11 testing. Bryan got Windows 11 running in one of this many virtual machines for testing. So far, everything looks good except that Windows 11 reports to be Windows 10. This is a widely reported problem and a fix is being investigated.
  • MeshCtrl.js Guest Sharing. Device guest sharing is an important feature of MeshCentral. Administrators can use this feature to embed device control within other web sites which is super useful. In the latest MeshCentral versions, the command line tool MeshCtrl.js was improved to support better guest sharing link addition/removal and better support for all of the latest sharing features.
  • Dependency security fixes. When installing MeshCentral, the NPM tool runs an audit for security issues. In the latest version of MeshCentral, dependencies have been changed to more secure ones so that there are no longer any audit warnings. This is great for the overall security posture of MeshCentral as it continues to be a secure as possible.

Many more bugs have also been addressed. As usual, feedback is appreciated. If you see any problems or need support on something, please create a new issue on GitHub or help other users. For more information, visit the portal at https://meshcentral.com.

Enjoy!
Ylian
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