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Last month, Plugins4Automate gave us Chocolatey For Labtech as the plugin of the month. This month we are saluting our emerging version three 3rd party application management for ConnectWise Automate.  Chocolatey For Automate is currently on special for a flat rate of $9.95 a month for unlimited agents on a single Automate host. This is 50% off the normal subscription price of $19.95 a month for unlimited agents. This price is valid until the end of the ITNation Explore conference in the middle of June 2019. Anyone purchasing a subscription before the end of show will continue to receive that price...

This month's plugin of the month goes to Chocolatey for LabTech (Automate). Plugins4Automate harnessed the power of Chocolatey and brought it into the ConnectWise Automate RMM platform. This allows MSPs to control mass amounts of Windows systems and software applications in a very simple to use interface.  Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows (like apt-get or yum ,but, for Windows). It was designed to be a decentralized framework for quickly installing applications and tools that you need without the need to manage software stores. It is built on the NuGet infrastructure currently using PowerShell as its' focus for delivering packages from the...

Innovation can come from some of the oddest places and for the most bizarre reasons. Not having enough pizza to go around a room of engineers during one of Plugins4Automates team meetings started a discussion about how innovations could solve problems like this. The room of engineers and developers threw out different ideas that reached across the spectrum of possibilities, even for pizza. It then came down to “There should be a Domino’s Pizza Plugin for ConnectWise Automate” , not just a web page on a tab but a more analytical approach to pizza delivery.   The question arose, how can...

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...