MeshCentral Blog

We are having a great week with a lot of community participation, many bug fixes, and lots of new features. This week, the user interface has gotten better for both the desktop and mobile web sites. The most fun new demonstration you can now perform is having a friend remote to a computer and as administrator, cutting them off in real time. Very cool, but I am sure this power can be quite annoying if abused. On the social media front, the MeshCentral YouTube channel is doing great. In detail: YouTube Channel . By chance I happen to see the view counter on the MeshCentral YouTube channel just cross the 22k mark. Thank you to everyone who is interested in MeshCentral and the amazing community around it. New videos continue to premiere every Wednesday with plenty more topics to cover. Next week’s video will be on setting up a SMTP email server with MeshCentral and all the new features enabled when doing this. Session Control . When remote desktop, terminal or file session are active on ...

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 video...

Note that I will be on vacation until October 5th , Bryan Roe will keep development moving forward. Since I last mentioned it, 5 more YouTube videos have premiered covering a range of topics from features and technical topics. In the last week, the new report generation feature was much improved along with traffic accounting. Lastly, there is now a new way to specify device session recording by user groups. In detail: MeshCentral YouTube Channel . The MeshCentral YouTube channel is doing well with over 17k views and over 500 subscribers. In the last 5 weeks, two technical videos where added doing a code review of the server and going into details on the two ways the MeshAgent is automatically updated on client platforms. There is a new video on how to get help and file feature requests and bug reports and a new video on basic Intel® AMT activation and use. Improved Report Generation . Last week, MeshCentral got a new report generation tool allowing administrators to see what user sess...

One more week with plenty more MeshCentral features and improvements. This week, Bryan Roe did many more crucial improvements to the Linux agents, notably improved remote desktop support in edge cases. The MeshCentral server got a new report generation feature, web based SSH improvements and much more. Again, many thanks for the community for reporting issues and helping move MeshCentral forward. In detail: Linux Agents Improvements . As a result of community requests, Bryan Roe has released new Linux agents with improved remote desktop support. Specifically, the new agent correctly handles X Window resolution changes including when transitioning from the login screen to a user desktop. This should make remote desktop a more usable on more Linux distributions. Report Generation . The community has been asking for MeshCentral to generate reports for a while, especially a report on who is doing remote control sessions on what devices, when and for how long. This can be used for auditing ...