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    • JaredBuschJ
      JaredBusch
      last edited by

      Does MeshCentral have a way to uninstall the remote agent from within the console like ScreenConnect does?

      4a563e9d-6640-4ee6-a085-d2ebd7472a9f-image.png

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
        last edited by

        @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.

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        • NashBrydgesN
          NashBrydges @scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          @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.

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          • NashBrydgesN
            NashBrydges
            last edited by

            If I first remove the remote device agent, then I can successfully delete the server from the MC dashboard.

            The test was on a remote server running Windows Server 2012R2.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @NashBrydges
              last edited by

              @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?

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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
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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.
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                                • dbeatoD
                                  dbeato
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                                  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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