EMCO Software - Company News and Events

8 products become compatible with Windows 8 and .NET Framework 4.5

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:00:00 GMT

New maintenance releases available for 8 commercial and freeware products introduce compatibility with Windows 8 platform. Updated products can run on computers where Windows 8 x86 or Windows 8 x64 is installed. Network products can interact with computers running Windows 8. New updates also provide compatibility with .NET Framework 4.5 recently announced by Microsoft.

Learn more: EMCO MAC Address Scanner, EMCO MoveOnBoot, EMCO OS License Modifier, EMCO Ping Monitor, EMCO Remote Console, EMCO Remote Registry Exporter, EMCO Remote Registry Merge, EMCO WakeOnLan

The major version update for Remote Shutdown software is available

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:00:00 GMT

The brand-new Remote Shutdown version 5 include several new features that are aimed to simplify the application's usage in an enterprise network environment. The new version consists of the client and server modules installed on the same computer. The server module works as a Windows service that is responsible for tasks execution. The client module is a UI application that is used for tasks configuration and results reviewing. As a result you don't need to keep the application running all the time to execute scheduled tasks. All tasks are executed automatically by a server module working as a service on background.

The new version also allows multiple users working with the application to use the same database that stores remote tasks, task execution results and other information. In this configuration one user can create remote tasks and other users can edit them if required and preview execution results.

Learn more: EMCO Remote Shutdown

Improved registry exporting features are available in new versions of Remote Registry Exporter and Merge

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:39:00 GMT

Registry exporting functionality has been improved in the latest releases of Remote Registry Merge and Remote Registry Exporter. Now you can export registry data, but exclude particular keys from exporting, if required. Skipped registry keys can be specified during the export conditions configuration. The new functionality can help you to export entire registry except of specific keys storing passwords or other sensitive data, for example.

Learn more: EMCO Remote Registry Merge, EMCO Remote Registry Exporter

WakeOnLan and Ping Monitor products become compatible with .NET Framework 4.0

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:10:00 GMT

The new maintenance releases of WakeOnLan and Ping Monitor products are now compatible with .NET Framework 4.0. You can run the applications on PCs where .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 or later is installed, including configuration that have only .NET Framework 4.0 installed. The new releases of the applications also include small log and UI layout improvements.

Learn more: EMCO WakeOnLan, EMCO Ping Monitor

Options to manage multiple resources are introduced in the MoveOnBoot 2.2.8 release

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:34:00 GMT

The new release of MoveOnBoot includes options for moving, renaming and deleting multiple resources at once. The resource picker dialog has been improved to allow selecting multiple resources at once, so it isn't required to select resources one-by-one anymore. Paths to managed resources can now include wildcard symbols in order to refer to multiple resources. Also the new release of the application includes logging improvements and a special check to detect if a destination folder of the move operation does exist in order to show the warning message otherwise.

Learn more: EMCO MoveOnBoot

Ping Monitor 4.7 introduces repeated notifications and custom sound notifications

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:09:00 GMT

Using repeated notifications introduced in Ping Monitor 4.7 you can receive e-mail, balloon and sound notifications regularly until the problem will not be resolved. For example, you can configure the application to send notifications when the connection to the monitored host is lost. The notification configuration dialog has been reworked to allow configuring a number of times the notification should be repeated for the selected event and a time interval between repetitions. If you like, you can configure an infinite number of repetitions to get notifications until the host connection status will be changed. The new version of Ping Monitor also allows configuring custom sounds to be used for sound notifications and includes other improvements and bug fixes.

Learn more: EMCO Ping Monitor

MSI Package Builder 4.5 offers MSI packages generation for x86 and x64 platforms

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:15:00 GMT

The new maintenance release is available for MSI Package Builder. It introduces a new option that allows a target platform selection for the generated MSI package. In the earlier versions of the application an MSI package was automatically generated for the same platform on which MSI generation was performed. Now it is possible to select either x86 or x64 platform as a target platform for the generated MSI package. The new release of MSI Package Builder also includes improved custom actions features. They allow to execute multiple pre and post installation and uninstallation actions, execute actions with parameters and define how to handle errors that may happen during execution of custom installation actions.

Learn more: EMCO MSI Package Builder

New features are introduced in WakeOnLan, Remote Registry Merge and Remote Registry Exporter tools

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:36:00 GMT

The new versions of WakeOnLan, Remote Registry Merge and Remote Registry Exporter are released with a set of new features. Improved networking module includes an option for re-enumerating network PCs in order to extract network information such as MAC address, for example. It also allows to enumerate specific groups and Active Directory containers to update a list of available PCs, that can change since the last scan. The new versions also introduce the new Machine Queue editor that now consists of the single tab, that is used for configuring target PCs and groups where remote tasks should be executed. Configured Machine Queue can be previewed on a separate tab that displays a list of PCs satisfying defined conditions and log messages that help to troubleshoot networking problems if they occur.

Learn more: EMCO WakeOnLan, EMCO Remote Registry Merge, EMCO Remote Registry Exporter

Introducing Network Software Scanner - a freeware software audit utility for Windows networks

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:45:00 GMT

The new freeware tool is aimed to help network administrators to collect software inventory information from network PCs. It collects a list of installed programs and updates and stores this information into the centralized database. Network administrators can export collected data to CSV files and also see changes in a list of installations for every PC. Network Software Scanner can collect software inventory information from PCs located in domains and workgroups and is optimized to work even in large networks that include thousands of computers. There is no limitation for a number of PCs that can be audited remotely.

Learn more: EMCO Network Software Scanner

The new MSI Package Builder release features custom actions execution options

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:52:00 GMT

MSI Package version 4.4.8 includes a new feature that allows executing custom actions after completion of MSI installation and uninstallation actions. Custom actions can be configured during MSI package creation and can include execution of an executable file or batch script, opening of a file or URL. Custom actions can operate with resources managed during installation/uninstallation and other resources available on the computer where an MSI package is installed/uninstalled. This feature helps to customize installation and uninstallation procedures even for installations that were prepared using the repackaging mechanism.

Learn more: EMCO MSI Package Builder