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Plugins4Automate has had a long relationship with Chocolaty package manger creating 4 different plugins that use Chocolaty in different fashions. We have a Brew for Mac package manager and a Linux Update Manager based on Yum, Apt-get and Zypper but not until now can we start working on a plugin for a native package manager for Windows. Look for the Windows Package Manager to be available in Habitat this summer. Visit: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-package-manager-preview/   Microsoft has aimed to create a repository of trusted applications, from which the package manager can install apps that have been vetted with its SmartScreen technology and...

Plugins4Automate has been given the green light to build a new integration into ConnectWise Automate to support the Avast Business Cloud solution. Avast has contracted with Plugins4Automate to build its first plugin to support the MSP market space. ConnectWise Automate is on the forefront of technology for RRM platforms used by MSP's to manage their clients and Avast wants to be apart of the community of support for the MSP.  Avast CloudCare scales with your MSP business, allowing you to easily add security services as your needs change. The plugin design allows MSPs to manage those needs in real time deploying and managing the data between...

Plugins4Automate team has added several new tools to the Habitat for ConnectWise Automate plugin as of build 1.0.0.41. Today we are going to show you the new Windows Registry Search tool available in the client console. The Windows Registry Search tool allows you to look for Windows registry data across the entire client or a select group of agents under the client. The search is done in real time and the results displayed in the plugins terminal for each agent the search runs against.  This makes quick work when trying to see if agents are consistent in their registry data...

Our Plugin Of The Month for May 2020 is Patch Remedy. Patch Remedy  monitors and updates the WUA services for all current versions of Windows. We now automate the update of Windows 10 systems as part of our WUA maintenance services. Keep your Windows 10 deployments current and on the latest stable builds from Microsoft using Patch Remedy. If you need patching assistance in Connectwise Automate then you want Patch Remedy.

It's been a little more than a month since our last update on the Habitat plugin and what a month it's been. Like everyone impacted by the Covid-19 virus that's been following the stay at home requests, it's given us some extra time to tinker with some new tools for Habitat. Let me tell you  some of the new things we added to the Habitat for Automate Plugin. We added a new Habitat Function Editor that allows you to edit the functions we provide natively to Habitat and to add in new functions the MSP can create to have implemented inside Habitat....