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This month Plugins4Automate has really pushed to get the PowerShell for Automate plugin out with all new support for Windows POSH 6 and 7 and all new deployments of PowerShell to native Linux and Mac systems.  PowerShell is open-source PowerShell base source code is now available in GitHub and open to community contributions. PowerShell is a task-based command-line shell and scripting language built on .NET. PowerShell helps system administrators and power-users rapidly automate tasks that manage operating systems (Linux, macOS, and Windows) and processes. PowerShell commands let you manage computers from the command line. PowerShell providers let you access data...

Plugins4Automate has added some useful metrics to Habitat in the form of a dashboard. These metrics are available in a dashboard inside the Habitat plugin and provides a quick insight into your Users, ServiceDesk, Time Slips, Alerts and agents.   Closed Tickets By User Open Tickets By User Ticket Priorities Ticket Statuses Available and Online Servers Available and Online Workstations Available and Online Linux Available and Online Apple Alert statuses New Agents This Month Tickets Opened today Tickets Closed today Tickets Updated today Hours ticketed by technician today Hours ticketed by Technician this week.   Habitat is in free beta...

Plugins4Automate has been hard at work adding new tools and features to Habitat. Today we get to announce that as of Build 1.0.0.22, Habitat supports a new Linux Update Manager Add-on that has some neat improvements. LUM (Linux Update Manager) in Habitat now supports 3 different Linux package managers including YUM, Apt-Get and Zypper. It uses the different package managers to pull available packages updates back into ConnectWise Automate for your support teams to have direct access to via their Automate consoles. You can update one or all available packages on an agent manually or allow Automate to upgrade the systems...

The Bossman here at Plugins4Automate wants more stuff in the Habitat toolbox for ConnectWise Automate. We are working hard to get you more tools to tinker with inside of the Habitat plugin. For this reason we are going to extend the Beta for a while longer to give our testers a chance to play with all the new stuff we have coming. Enjoy the extra time and thank you for all your responses, they have really helped to rapidly improve functionality of the plugin.    If you would like to join the beta testers you can visit our Habitat Forum

With a big bang and a ball drop we usher in 2020 and also a new plugin of the month, nah a plugin for the new decade!  This requires us to put up our best of class when it comes to plugins and CCleaner for Automate really fits that bill this year. Let me tell you a little bit about why we think CCleaner for Automate should be our Plugin of the Decade. Little know fact, the first edition CCleaner integration was in early 2010's and consisted of just 2 imported scripts. One to register and one to clean, and...