I got a question from Jim this week: “Hi Steve. Back in the old days when I was connected to the Internet via a modem, there was this cool network activity indicator down by the time. Do you know of anything like that for my network card?” Thanks for the great question Jim. There is […]
This week we put out a new build of Enterprise remote control. The biggest update – the ability to generate MSI setup packages for the agent. This means it is now much easier to distribute it via group policy. Another thing we changed was the idle logoff. Now you can enable or disable it…or change […]
If you downloaded Network Administrator recently, there is an update you might want to download. The IE automatic update install blocker did not send the change if you did not have all of the check boxes checked, or all the boxes unchecked. If you downloaded before, please update with this new version: http://www.intelliadmin.com/NetworkAdministrator.exe Install right […]
Internet Explorer 11 will be released sometime this fall – but what if you don’t want users to automatically upgrade? It is always better if you get the chance to test new versions of IE with your most heavily used websites – that way you don’t get hit with tons of support calls when it […]
I found a free tool for managing Hyper-V remotely. If you do any work with Hyper-V, you might want to take a look. It is made by 5Nine Software Once you have installed it, you can easily add your server to the interface: It is fast. Loads my list of VMs faster than the Hyper-V […]
Over a year ago we came out with a utility to burn files from the command line. It was a little short on features, so this week we took some time and beefed it up. Here are the new options: -You can eject the drive -You can erase disks -You can set the label when […]
I can bet your network is like ours. The number of Virtual Machines we have running is double of what we had last year. For a long time now we have used a ‘poor mans backup’. We would shutdown the virtual machines and then robocopy the contents of the VM over to a backup drive. […]
I got a question from Mark this week: “Hi Steve, Love your newsletter, keep sending me the good stuff 🙂 I have a question for you. I was wondering if there was a way to delete printers that were offline from a script. This would allow me to clean up dead printers without going around […]
We have released the final build of Remote Control Enterprise Edition to our website. What is it? It allows you to control computers remotely, as if you were in front of them. Across your network, and across the world. The big change in this version is that almost everything is accessible from an easy to […]
I ran across an awesome little tool recently. It is called LastActivityView from NirSoft The program collects information from various sources, and can show you an activity report for a system that includes: -Folders accessed -System logon, shutdown, sleep times -Software installation time -Crashes -System restore point creation When you launch it, it loads almost […]