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Printer Status Plugin This month we placed the Printer Status Plugin at the top of the plugin list as the plugin of the month for September 2019. This free plugin from Plugins4Automate let's MSPs see across each Client in the Automate console, all the printers installed and the current status of those printers.   The plugin has tools that will allow you to control the printers from remote, issuing commands directly from the Printer status console.    Get this plugin and many more like it for free at Plugins4Automate!

Florida is known for its oranges, beaches, sun and Disney World but it's also the capital of Hurricanes! Being a native of Florida I can remember back to the mid 1970's when I got to experience my first hurricane, Hurricane David.    So every few years we can expect a good blow to come through and mess up the landscape. During his time we board up the home and office, make sure we have water and batteries and we hunker down and wait.      Wish us luck!     *** Update *** We survived with little mess! We are...

Shortest Plugins4Automate blog post ever! Habitat is coming to Automate. What could it be? Watch our blog for more information to be released.

The plugin of the month for August 2019 is the Announce Maintenance plugin for connectWise Automate. Improve Windows Patching up to 25% MSP wide! If agents are offline you can't deliver your services. If you can not deliver your service your patching stats suffer! Announce Maintenance gently reminds users to keep workstations online for maintenance. We choose the Announce maintenance plugin for its ability to limit the number of offline agents during critical patching and maintenance cycles. It helps this unique problem by sending an announcement pop message to each active desktop with a custom message the MSP provides. The message would read that scheduled...

This month Plugns4Automate puts Map Drives as the latest plugin of the month. Map Drives holds the highest downloads counts repeatedly among our top plugins and has shown that its value to the LabTech / Automate community is undeniable. Let me tell you a little about Map Drives The Map Drives plugin started out as "a need to see" for agents and users drive mappings, ensuring that users had drives mapped to a LOB application. If the drive letter was missing or mapped to the wrong place would cause our engineers and techs time in the field. Having the ability to see...