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    • JaredBuschJ
      JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
      last edited by

      @scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

      @NashBrydges said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

      @scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

      @JaredBusch it has "delete device". I don't know if it removes the remote agent. But it makes the remote agent useless at least. I've never tested to see what the remote agent does when that option is selected. But it definitely removes it from MC itself.

      Interesting behaviour I just observed when I tested this. I can click on the "Delete device" option and it does momentarily remove it from my MC installation however the remote device immediately returns to the MC My Devices dashboard. It looks like there may be a bug that prevents it from being removed if the remote agent is still running on the remote device.

      That's odd. I've done this a bit and not seen that happen. But maybe the agent was no longer running?

      Most likely. I can remove an agent and it pops back immediately, as @NashBrydges noted.

      I want to remote uninstall the agent.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
        last edited by

        No obvious command to remove it in the agent command list...

        help
        Available commands:
        amt, amtacm, amtccm, amtdeactivate, amtpolicy, amtreset, apf, args, av, cpuinfo, dbcompact, dbget, dbkeys,
        dbset, eval, getclip, getscript, help, httpget, info, kill, location, lock, log, ls, netinfo, notify,
        nwslist, openurl, osinfo, parseuri, plugin, power, print, ps, rawsmbios, scanamt, scanwifi, sendcaps,
        setclip, setdebug, smbios, sysinfo, toast, type, users, wakeonlan, wsclose, wsconnect, wssend.

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        • coliverC
          coliver
          last edited by

          Is there a way to make Powershell the default shell for Windows instead of Command Prompt?

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @coliver
            last edited by

            @coliver said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

            Is there a way to make Powershell the default shell for Windows instead of Command Prompt?

            For Windows, yes...

            https://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-10-april-2018-update-how-to-change-the-command-prompt-default-to-powershell/

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              For MeshCentral, no I don't think so. That would be nice, though.

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              • coliverC
                coliver @scottalanmiller
                last edited by

                @scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                For MeshCentral, no I don't think so. That would be nice, though.

                Yeah that's what I meant.

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                  MordyT @NashBrydges
                  last edited by MordyT

                  @NashBrydges said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                  @JaredBusch it has "delete device". I don't know if it removes the remote agent. But it makes the remote agent useless at least. I've never tested to see what the remote agent does when that option is selected. But it definitely removes it from MC itself.

                  Interesting behaviour I just observed when I tested this. I can click on the "Delete device" option and it does momentarily remove it from my MC installation however the remote device immediately returns to the MC My Devices dashboard. It looks like there may be a bug that prevents it from being removed if the remote agent is still running on the remote device.

                  Download the uninstaller, transfer with meshcentral to the pc, run with meshcentral remote commands, delete device from portal?

                  Would be nice for a button, but in theroy that could work...

                  Heck, could likely make it all a powersehll script with invoke-webrequest, so you can in 1 script download, run uninstaller, delete installer (maybe). Then it's a matter of deleting from portal...

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                  • black3dynamiteB
                    black3dynamite @MordyT
                    last edited by black3dynamite

                    @MordyT said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                    @NashBrydges said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                    @scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                    @JaredBusch it has "delete device". I don't know if it removes the remote agent. But it makes the remote agent useless at least. I've never tested to see what the remote agent does when that option is selected. But it definitely removes it from MC itself.

                    Interesting behaviour I just observed when I tested this. I can click on the "Delete device" option and it does momentarily remove it from my MC installation however the remote device immediately returns to the MC My Devices dashboard. It looks like there may be a bug that prevents it from being removed if the remote agent is still running on the remote device.

                    Download the uninstaller, transfer with meshcentral to the pc, run with meshcentral remote commands, delete device from portal?

                    Would be nice for a button, but in theroy that could work...

                    Heck, could likely make it all a powersehll script with invoke-webrequest, so you can in 1 script download, run uninstaller, delete installer (maybe). Then it's a matter of deleting from portal...

                    No need to download the installer.
                    Create a script with something like this.

                    $_oFile = 'MeshAgent.exe'
$_oMeshAgentPath = 'C:\Program Files\Mesh Agent'
$_oMeshAgentArguments = @(
  '-fulluninstall'
)

Start-Process -FilePath "$_oMeshAgentPath\$_oFile" -ArgumentList $_oMeshAgentArguments -Wait -NoNewWindow

                    But having a option to delete device and to uninstall meshagent and then delete device would be awesome.

                    Edit: Fixed path for C:\Program Files\MeshAgent to C:\Program Files\Mesh Agent
                    Thanks @JaredBusch

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                    • JaredBuschJ
                      JaredBusch
                      last edited by

                      THis is what ConnectWise shows when you choose uninstall.
                      19629979-56cc-44e3-912e-d0c896ed1169-image.png

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                      • dbeatoD
                        dbeato
                        last edited by

                        Bomgar does this and uninstalls automatically as soon as your end a session if it is on demmand or from the host.

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                        • JaredBuschJ
                          JaredBusch @dbeato
                          last edited by

                          @dbeato said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                          Bomgar does this and uninstalls automatically as soon as your end a session if it is on demmand or from the host.

                          No one is talking about on-demand. On demand should not install anything in the first place. merely run.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
                            last edited by

                            @JaredBusch said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                            @dbeato said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                            Bomgar does this and uninstalls automatically as soon as your end a session if it is on demmand or from the host.

                            No one is talking about on-demand. On demand should not install anything in the first place. merely run.

                            Exactly. MeshCentral does the same. Run on demand and it just "vanishes" when you close.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
                              last edited by

                              Up to 0.4.2-h

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                                srsmith
                                last edited by

                                Just updated to 0.4.2-i. As always, quick and painless!

                                I really need to get in the habit of checking every day...

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                                • black3dynamiteB
                                  black3dynamite @srsmith
                                  last edited by

                                  @srsmith said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                                  Just updated to 0.4.2-i. As always, quick and painless!

                                  I really need to get in the habit of checking every day...

                                  If you want, you can enable SelfUpdate in your config.json file to auto update.

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                                  • JaredBuschJ
                                    JaredBusch @black3dynamite
                                    last edited by

                                    @black3dynamite said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                                    @MordyT said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                                    @NashBrydges said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                                    @JaredBusch it has "delete device". I don't know if it removes the remote agent. But it makes the remote agent useless at least. I've never tested to see what the remote agent does when that option is selected. But it definitely removes it from MC itself.

                                    Interesting behaviour I just observed when I tested this. I can click on the "Delete device" option and it does momentarily remove it from my MC installation however the remote device immediately returns to the MC My Devices dashboard. It looks like there may be a bug that prevents it from being removed if the remote agent is still running on the remote device.

                                    Download the uninstaller, transfer with meshcentral to the pc, run with meshcentral remote commands, delete device from portal?

                                    Would be nice for a button, but in theroy that could work...

                                    Heck, could likely make it all a powersehll script with invoke-webrequest, so you can in 1 script download, run uninstaller, delete installer (maybe). Then it's a matter of deleting from portal...

                                    No need to download the installer.
                                    Create a script with something like this.

                                    $_oFile = 'MeshAgent.exe'
$_oMeshAgentPath = 'C:\Program Files\MeshAgent'
$_oMeshAgentArguments = @(
  '-fulluninstall'
)

Start-Process -FilePath "$_oMeshAgentPath\$_oFile" -ArgumentList $_oMeshAgentArguments -Wait -NoNewWindow

                                    But having a option to delete device and to uninstall meshagent and then delete device would be awesome.

                                    This almost worked... The correct path also has a space in the folder Mesh Agent. F'ing windows-esque devs....

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                                    • black3dynamiteB
                                      black3dynamite @JaredBusch
                                      last edited by

                                      @JaredBusch said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                                      @black3dynamite said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                                      @MordyT said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                                      @NashBrydges said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                                      @JaredBusch it has "delete device". I don't know if it removes the remote agent. But it makes the remote agent useless at least. I've never tested to see what the remote agent does when that option is selected. But it definitely removes it from MC itself.

                                      Interesting behaviour I just observed when I tested this. I can click on the "Delete device" option and it does momentarily remove it from my MC installation however the remote device immediately returns to the MC My Devices dashboard. It looks like there may be a bug that prevents it from being removed if the remote agent is still running on the remote device.

                                      Download the uninstaller, transfer with meshcentral to the pc, run with meshcentral remote commands, delete device from portal?

                                      Would be nice for a button, but in theroy that could work...

                                      Heck, could likely make it all a powersehll script with invoke-webrequest, so you can in 1 script download, run uninstaller, delete installer (maybe). Then it's a matter of deleting from portal...

                                      No need to download the installer.
                                      Create a script with something like this.

                                      $_oFile = 'MeshAgent.exe'
$_oMeshAgentPath = 'C:\Program Files\MeshAgent'
$_oMeshAgentArguments = @(
  '-fulluninstall'
)

Start-Process -FilePath "$_oMeshAgentPath\$_oFile" -ArgumentList $_oMeshAgentArguments -Wait -NoNewWindow

                                      But having a option to delete device and to uninstall meshagent and then delete device would be awesome.

                                      This almost worked... The correct path also has a space in the folder Mesh Agent. F'ing windows-esque devs....

                                      Good catch. It's fixed now.

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                                      • dbeatoD
                                        dbeato @scottalanmiller
                                        last edited by

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                                        @JaredBusch said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                                        @dbeato said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

                                        Bomgar does this and uninstalls automatically as soon as your end a session if it is on demmand or from the host.

                                        No one is talking about on-demand. On demand should not install anything in the first place. merely run.

                                        Exactly. MeshCentral does the same. Run on demand and it just "vanishes" when you close.

                                        Understood. Bomgar doesn't install a client on demand so it was my bad wording.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller
                                          last edited by

                                          0.4.2-k a couple hours ago and -p now!!

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller
                                            last edited by

                                            0.4.2-u now

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