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    • coliverC
      coliver
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      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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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller
                                          last edited by

                                          0.4.2-v now.

                                          And we've upgraded to Ubuntu 19.10 as well.

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                                          • pmonchoP
                                            pmoncho
                                            last edited by

                                            0.4.2-z is out there now.

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