This post is about how we have improved Host authorization system and related security aspects in Remote Utilities 6.9. Feel free to visit the related community discussion to leave your comments.
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Beta 2 will follow with some new features and improvements not initially included in Beta 1. Meanwhile, feel free to participate in the open beta testing and leave your feedback in this discussion thread.
On the remote side of a connection you can use either Host or Agent. Their features mostly overlap and in many cases you can use either. In some scenarios, however, using Host may be more appropriate than using Agent, and vice versa.
Remote Utilities 6.6.0.5 offers an improved MSI Configurator and a new update mechanism that makes updating Viewers and Hosts easier.
Remote Utilities 6.6 is now available for download. Learn what’s new in version 6.6.
This blog post gives some details about how address books work in Remote Utilities and introduces local address book encryption that became available in version 6.5.
This blog post is the first in the series of posts that highlight the most prominent new features added in version 6.5.
Remote Utilities has a very simple and straightforward registration procedure. Here is a screencast that explains how to register the program:
As many of you know, Remote Utilities provides a separate module called the “Agent” for spontaneous remote support. This program is actually a modified Host that can be run as an application without administrative privileges. The advantage of using the Agent is that it does not require installation. The remote user can run it, give the help desk technician their ID and password and wait until a remote session starts.
The ability to print a remote document on the local printer has long been asked for. Today we’re happy to announce that this feature has already been implemented and will be available in the next minor update - version 5.4. This post is a sneak peek into how remote printing works in Remote Utilities.