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GoFundMe - Help Joe see Joe on Joe's Birthday

GoFundMe – Help Joe see Joe on Joe’s Birthday

Hi everyone! This past week has been a roller-coaster of events. My father (Milton H Forbes) also known as “Joe”, live(d) in Sumas Washington. Essentially a stone throw away from the I-5 highway, leading into Canada’s Border. On Monday (11/15/21) A “Pacific River” was dropped on British Columbia and Northern Washington state. The large Nooksack River and local creeks all flooded. This displaced a…

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Announcement - Events & Postponement

Announcement – Events & Postponement

After some terrible news this week, it is this announcement where our development of SNX’s MeshCentral software, and our other projects are going to be postponed for about two weeks. This initial estimate is due to events in Washington state, where a recent Pacific River drowned towns. Sumas Washington is one of those towns. My father Milton H Forbes was displaced by this event. Not only being…

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MeshCentral - Update 0.9.51

MeshCentral – Update 0.9.51

As we make progress to making a 1.0 release someday, we hit milestone. In this update, we improved our MeshAgent tool, and MeshRouter tool. We added some customizations to our User Interface and continue to improve the backend processes with MeshCentral Email Reporting. Keeping this post simple, we have nothing else to report.

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Announcing - Client Website Maintenance Schedule

Announcing – Client Website Maintenance Schedule

We narrow down our Web Development services since losing our Developer earlier this year. Due to health reasons, I am phasing out any new Web Development Projects, and will only remain maintaining our existing client Web Services. Current Web Services include, maintaining the “backend” of your websites. That is more or less “Administrative” in nature when it comes to maintaining a website.…

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Announcing - New Maintenance Schedule

Announcing – New Maintenance Schedule

We are going to inform all of our clients, through this “blog”, and our weekly newsletters (which repeats these posts in a digest form) of our new Weekend policies to automating Updates, and Critical Patches. Now that we have our MeshCentral is a stable (and still developing) condition, we are putting together our scripts that push/force the processes of “running updates”. This means, we plan on…

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Microsoft October 2021 Updates

Microsoft October 2021 Updates

Microsoft Teams 1. View Switcher- a new dedicated menu of view options in Teams Meetings New Feature×Dismiss alert How this will affect your organization: This new feature will place all of the view related options that are found in Teams Meetings (Gallery, Large Gallery, Together Mode) into a separate, dedicated menu called View Switcher. This will show up on the top left of the meeting…

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MeshCentral - Update

MeshCentral – Update

Another update… nothing major, just fixing things that needed fixing. Like some Agent Class identifications. A bug we discovered was how the MeshAgent Reports on the OS it is installed on. So for instance, if you have Windows 10 21H1, MeshAgent reported it as being Windows 10 2009 or 2004. We figured out a better way to obtain WMI reporting/telemetry. Another fix to our ability to use CIRA Intel…

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MeshCentral - Update

MeshCentral – Update

We made another broadside improvement to our MeshCentral Server. We have reached version 0.9.39, which includes a bunch of fixes to the MeshCentral Agents, and the Router software. The updates are listed on GitHub, but you can bet we are about to start working on our branding. We had a nice weekend, no major issues, and for a three day weekend for the kids. We got to get out of the City. Return…

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Mandatory 10-digit dialing in 82 area codes in 36 states begins October 24, 2021

Mandatory 10-digit dialing in 82 area codes in 36 states begins October 24, 2021

On July 16, 2020, the FCC adopted “988” as a three-digit abbreviated dialing code to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline starting July 16, 2022. For “988” to work for everyone in the 82 area codes listed below, all customers with a number from those area codes must transition to 10-digit dialing (or 1+10-digit dialing for landline customers in the area codes below with an…

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Email Issues - Resolved

Email Issues – Resolved

We were able to resolve out Outgoing Email issues. Apparently we were able to receive emails from our clients, but couldn’t respond to them. This was due to our Email Server’s IP address was flagged for SPAM. This was due to our Shared hosting account shared IP, was unfortunately apart of a shared hosting account, which was compromised. A Spammer used the other hosted account to SPAM emails to…

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Email Issues - Investigating

Email Issues – Investigating

We are having some email issues… Simply put, we can receive your emails, but cannot respond/reply to them. Depending on the Receiver, if they have CSI which is a anti-spam service provider for their mail hosting service. Our end of things report that a Shared Host on our IP, is sending spam. Since our Web Hosting is shared, and pretty much our domain is not the ONLY domain to our IP address, it…

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MeshCentral - Update

MeshCentral – Update

In this update, email notifications are fixed/resolved. We have had issues with our SMTP settings, for when MeshCentral tries to send a auth/verification/notice email. If things were done correctly, we also resolved Group Notification to inform Admin(s) user of MeshAgent disconnect/reconnects.

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MeshCentral - Update

MeshCentral – Update

What is nice about this new update, is that we have improved our MeshAgent installer. Group & User management has been improved to allow for assigning permissions and access to remote workstations. MeshRouter a Port Manager that allows for RDP session management, has had a improvement in functionality. Assigning ports for specific routing to which RDP session you want to access. Very similar to…

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MeshCentral - Online

MeshCentral – Online

Our MeshCentral is back online, all client MeshAgents reporting into the server as expected. Report – We performed updates to Windows Server 2019. After a restart, a service (IIS) kicked in, and took over Port 80. Node.js with it’s HTTP redirector changed to Port 81. The Server Config file wasn’t configured to Port or RedirPorts so when the server restarted, the MeshCentral service conflicted.…

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MeshCentral - Update

MeshCentral – Update

Determined the issue was the HTTP redirect service, detected the AD DS and a IIS instance running on Port 80. So even if we got MeshCentral settings fixed, Node.js service running the “wrapper” that hosts the MeshCentral website, kept detecting Port 80 in use. This breaks the Let’s Encrypt SSL service, and everything gets messed up. So. we figured it out. Then, here comes CPS Energy. A Power…

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Oops, we broke something...

Oops, we broke something…

As we were working on updates to our server, we were migrating our Server 2019, which has our backup Domain Controller. This DC is also hooked up to our MeshCentral Server. Whelp, we broke something. We are troubleshooting right now trying to figure out why the web service keeps redirecting to port 81. Yep, it’s simple, but it’s broke. Remote Agents (MeshAgent) can still communicate with our…

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MeshCentral Report

MeshCentral Report - We deployed it, and now deploying Agents... RMM Agents.

We have successfully deployed our own On-Premise / Self Hosted Mesh Central server. Still in it’s current state, we are deploying Agents to our clients, and monitoring the telemetry that our Mesh Agents gather. Q: What is MeshCentral? A: MeshCentral is a Open Source Remote Monitoring and Management Web Service. We shifted from past RMM tools over the years, and found that costs, and benefits of…

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