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It’s been a while since the last post and a lot has been going on. Thanks to the community MeshCentral keeps getting better at a fast pace. More languages, more features, security improvements, better access rights control and some many bug fixes. The community is great and this week, it’s almost overwhelming how many improvements there are. Below is just a sample of all the changes. In detail: MeshCentral YouTube Channel . This last week, the MeshCentral YouTube channel passed 15k views, this is wonderful for a YouTube channel that is just getting started. As usual a new video premieres every Wednesday morning with the next one coming up focused on Intel® AMT. All new MeshAgents with latest OpenSSL . Yesterday the latest MeshCentral was published with new MeshAgents for all operating systems (Windows, Linux, MacOS, BSD) that there compiled using the latest OpenSSL 1.1.1l. Last week, OpenSSL reported two vulnerabilities and these new agents address these issues. Two new MeshCentral L...

In the last few weeks on the MeshCentral YouTube channel , there is a new technical series that going into how MeshCentral is made. So far, two technical videos have been released, one on the history of MeshCentral and another on REST vs WebSocket. As for MeshCentral itself, remote desktop now has support for WebP with the Android Agent being first to make use of it. We have ZIP support in the MeshCentral Router, improved device tagging and agent type and version information. In detail: Latest YouTube Videos . New MeshCentral videos are released every week (Wednesday’s at 8:15am PT). In the last four weeks we added a longer overview presentation of MeshCentral and a tutorial on how to run a multi-domain MeshCentral server . In addition, there is a new technical series that covers the background of the MeshCentral project, how it’s built and so on. As part of the new technical series there is a new video on the history of MeshCentral and a discussion on REST vs WebSocket . The ran...

It’s been a while since the last update and lots of improvements have been made to MeshCentral. The last few weeks have been focused on bug fixing, however yesterday night saw the release of a new set of updated MeshAgents for all platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD) and for all CPU’s supported by these agents (x86, x86-64, ARM, Apple Silicon, MIPS). Thanks to Bryan Roe for the hard work over the last few months to improve the agents. In addition to new agents, there are plenty more features and improvements to talk about. In detail: New MeshAgent agents for all platforms . The mesh agent that runs on all remote machines must to be small, self-updating, super portable and very reliable. It’s a complex piece of software maintained by Bryan Roe.  After months of testing, yesterday all agent where recompiled for all platforms and released. Updating to the latest MeshCentral will cause all the agents to be upgraded. The new agents have many improvements, are more stable and includ...

It’s been a busy week with many more MeshCentral releases being made with the focus on bug fixes and requests from the community. Still, many new features where added or improved. One fun news this week is that the YouTube channel just passed 10k views, which is not bad for a new channel. The other points of note are the MeshCentral Agent for Android is now on the Amazon App Store and the remote desktop recordings can be converted to WebM format to be played in a normal media player. Just so much going on. In detail: MeshCentral YouTube Channel . In the last few days, the MeshCentral YouTube channel passed 10k views and new videos continue to be added every Wednesday. Since the last blog post on this topic, 3 new videos have been posted. One on session recordings which is very useful for auditing, one of compression which MeshCentral makes extensive use of to lower hosting costs, and the latest video was on MeshCentral Assistant, the user-initiated support tool. Thank you to everyone ...

MeshCentral is an open source, web based, feature packed computer management web site. This week we have a major new update of the MeshCentral Agent for Android with new auto-connection setting, branding customization, account name & picture and more importantly remote desktop scaling and optimization support. On top of that we have many improvements to the MeshCentral server, addition of an automatic clipboard feature and more. But first, I want to provide an update on the MeshCentral YouTube channel which is doing very well with a new video being posted every Wednesday. In detail: MeshCentral YouTube Channel . A few months back, the MeshCentral YouTube channel launched with an initial set of videos with more being posted every Wednesday. There are now 23 videos live covering everything from initial installation to more advanced topics like server peering and installation with reverse proxies. The channel has over 7800 views so far and since the last time I blogged about the You...

MeshCentral Assistant is getting many more improvements this week. MeshCentral Assistant is a Windows tool that can monitor a background MeshAgent and/or be setup to directly connect to the MeshCentral server when requested by the user to provide remote assistance. The response on GitHub for this new tool has been wonderful and many improvement requests have been made. There are now new running modes, support for branding, computer information, live CPU and memory graph and Shell/PowerShell terminal support. In detail: MeshCentral Assistant Running Modes . When downloading MeshCentral Assistant from the MeshCentral web site, you can now select between 5 different running modes. Should it run as a system tray tool? Should it immediately connect to the server or only when requested by the user? Should it be used for background agent monitoring only? By selecting the right mode of operation, MeshCentral Assistant can be tailored to best handle the most technical support situations. MeshCe...

MeshCentral is an open source, web based, feature packed computer management web site. This week again, plenty more improvements to MeshCentral to go thru. One item that has been a long time coming is getting an open source code signing certificate and that finally happened last week. As a result, many of the published open source binaries are now code signed. MeshCentral Assistant got many more improvements, MeshCentral now have Secure-FTP support built-in along with more items. In detail: Open Source Binaries are Signed . This has been a long time coming but last week most binaries for the MeshCentral and MeshCommander projects are now signed. This includes the MeshCentral Installer, Router and Assistant along with MeshCommander and the MeshCommander Firmware Loader. This adds a level of trust that the binaries are legitimate. Notably absent for signing is the MeshAgent which is too risky to sign as it can be used for both good and bad. So, going forward the MeshAgent will remain sel...