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Plugins4Automate's plugin of the month goes to Announce Maintenance.  Do You Feel Your Clucking Like A Chicken? Do you have to remind your clients users to keep their systems on for maintenance and patching cycles each week? Yes me too, It seems I have to remind them every week before they go home. Do you know how many hours on the phone that would be if I had to call each of my users to whisper “Hey, Don’t forget to leave your computers on!”  Well you don't have to with the Announce Maintenance Plugin, it can do it for you. Connecting with your end users before...

Plugins4Automate plugin of the month for February 2019 is CCleaner For Automate plugin version 1.0.4 . In cooperation with Piriform and ConnectWise, we are happy to provide a plugin that is useful to all MSPs using ConnectWise Automate RMM platforms. We feel it adds great potential to storage and security management within ConnectWise Automate, while bringing value to the ConnectWise Automate community in the form of FREE robust plugins and applications.  CCleaner a security tool? Absolutely, CCleaner is a great security tool to assist in maintaining password policies across the client and reducing the exposed footprint of the end users. There is software available widely on the Internet that...

Plugins4Automate released Patch Remedy 1.0.4.41 this week with a few new updates. The biggest is the February 2019 roll-ups for All Windows 10 editions. We also made a few minor updates to the maintenance script to make operations a bit smoother across all OS types. New to Patch Remedy? Patch Remedy monitors and updates the WUA services for all current versions of Windows. Without an updated and functional WUA your Windows patching will inaccurately tell you that your managed systems are up to date and this will affect Automate's ability to keep systems fully patched. We now automate the update of Windows...

Patching Windows on a large scale is time consuming with setting policies, approving patches and going back and confirming patch success. Many MSPs overlook or don't bother with Linux patching, it's too difficult to try and maintain using their RMM platform. Plugins4Automate has a plugin for ConnectWise Automate to make managing Linux patching quick and easy. We all know that ConnectWise Automate patches Windows but what can it do for Linux? Linux patching has been left behind in the world of ConnectWise Automate but Plugins4Automate has a solution for you. Our Linux Update Manage  plugin helps you better manage Linux systems that use Apt-Get...

This month's plugin of the month goes to Backup Windows Backup Windows plugin manages the native Microsoft Server Backup application available on any Windows OS across the MSP's environments. Create backups, monitor backups, alert on failures, trend backup operations and restore files directly, all from inside the plugin and from ConnectWise Automate. Backup Windows plugin mirrors the functionality of the OS the plugin is managing and supports the features WBAdmin provides for that OS. Plugins4LabTech also adds extra functionality to include the ability offsite the backups created by Microsoft Server Backup to a 3rd party storage device using the secure protocol SFTP. If your clients are...