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The new Beta is on the support forums, available Here What is a Habitat? Habitat is a toolbox for your RMM environment. We provide house keepers, resources, tools and other neat items that allow you to really get the full potential of the ConnectWise Automate environment. Habitat is a ConnectWise Automate 12+ plugin that provides tools and services used to manage the MSPs overall environment making that environment more streamline and less failure prone.   What is inside Habitat? Our expectations for Habitat is it to be ever expanding, maybe we should of named it Universe. Your habitat is ever...

Plugins For Automate is about to start up the first of the beta testing for their new Habitat plugin under development. The launch pad for [would be] beta testers will be the following main forum [Habitat].  I know a lot of people out there will want to jump right in and start playing with a new plugin,  please take a second to think about it before you hop all in. We want a little work with our play so you are going to need to participate! As a beta tester you are electing to install untested software into your Automate environment....

This month's Plugin of the Month goes out to our old friend LUM, The Linux Update Manager.   Most MSPs see Linux systems and veir away from the opportunity to manage those systems. This leaves a hole in the armor that they build up around their clients. Some also argue that it's a loss of revenue as they charge less or nothing for Linux. The big reason why is that the automating of updates for Linux systems are not directly built into the Automate server by default. That changes with the Linux Update Manager plugin. Quickly and easily look into...

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...