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2.3 if you dare...
Jake Morgan
#1 Posted : Wednesday, July 13, 2011 9:59:55 PM
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Here is a build of 2.3 for anyone adventurous enough to take the plunge. I'd planned on putting it on the site in a few days, but we made quite a few changes to the installer upgrade script, so I figured we'd better test with a little wider audience before it goes on the site.

It adds:
- More granular security with definable roles with permissions
- Faster web UI refresh time when anything changes such as connections and disconnections, yet less polling of the server

EDIT: this is now available on our downloads page:
http://screenconnect.com/Download
ComputerElite-Jason
#2 Posted : Thursday, July 14, 2011 4:38:16 PM
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Installed today will let ya know if any problems. Install was smooth as it always is :)
darrylinca
#3 Posted : Thursday, July 14, 2011 6:47:12 PM
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Thanks Jake, this is what I need. Now I can secure my clients by giving certain rights to my employees so they will not attend areas their not too, and again thanks.
teksigns
#4 Posted : Thursday, July 14, 2011 10:34:51 PM
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just installed it all went well .. updated 2.2.

will report more later ....
hahnium
#5 Posted : Friday, July 15, 2011 8:56:41 AM
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Location: Norway
All good! Have been waiting for some time for this feature, and now it works perfect!
ComputerHero
#6 Posted : Monday, July 18, 2011 4:50:43 AM
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Location: Calgary, Canada
Looks good. Formatting on adminstration page is messed up, but minor.
I like the granularity.
mylove4life
#7 Posted : Tuesday, July 19, 2011 9:32:24 PM
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Do you have a help file for setting up users with the new 2.3? Thanks
JimR
#8 Posted : Wednesday, July 20, 2011 7:15:45 PM
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Location: UK
2.3 Installed - No problems. Looks Good, as always
simpona
#9 Posted : Wednesday, July 20, 2011 7:17:00 PM
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2.3 looks to have the granularity needed. However, any clarification of the levels of access offered, and what each of them permits/restricts, would be helpful.

For instance. If trying to restrict access for a user to only his/her sessions, do they get everything but administer rights, plus restriction to "My session" in both attended and unattended And, if that's correct, can they be invited to join someone else's session?

Can these subsets of permissions to applied to a Group, if using AD?

And, if you've got a team of IT support staff, how do you go about providing that one group full access to all scheduled sessions, with all staff. BUT, keep "unattended" sessions restricted to user who creates it, only?

Can you create unattended sessions so they will only be accessible by one individual, by virtue of the initial setup and configuration of the client?

How does one create an unattended session that is restricted to a person, but then open it up to others if needed? (from looking at this, it seems everything is going to be role-based, so no password restricting of an unattended session, right?)

There are a slew of security scenerio's, I'm sure. But, maybe a video walking through the options as you envision them, or a webinar going over the options, would be helpful?

Looks very promising. Just trying to get my head around the variables and how best to apply them.

Thanks Jake! Great work...

Patrick
Jake Morgan
#10 Posted : Wednesday, July 20, 2011 7:34:58 PM
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We'll be working on documentation once things get a bit more solidified.

You'd need to transfer the session to the other person, which would make it appear in their "My Sessions". But you can't really have it in both people's "My Sessions". It sounds like you'd also want to prevent most users from having "ManageSessionGroups" and "BuildUnattendedInstaller"

Everything can work with AD.

No one really "creates" unattended sessions, so you'll have to work with your tags to create session groups that mirror your security setup to some degree. You can definitely create sessions only accessible by one person, but I can't think of a way to temporarily share unattendeds. You can create notes that will put them into another area, but then they'll permanently be in that area.

Yes, it's all role based. All permissions are derived from your role membership.

teksigns
#11 Posted : Sunday, July 24, 2011 2:26:10 AM
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any updates to 2.3 ?

still working strong here ...

mylove4life
#12 Posted : Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:33:13 PM
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Hi all, in the 2.3 I have uninstalled an Unattended client and reinstalled to use a different name. I still see the old name listed in the sessions even tho it now says that there is no connection to it. Any one else see this...
bigdessert
#13 Posted : Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:56:17 PM
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mylove4life wrote:
Hi all, in the 2.3 I have uninstalled an Unattended client and reinstalled to use a different name. I still see the old name listed in the sessions even tho it now says that there is no connection to it. Any one else see this...


This has happened with all versions. It will disappear after 24hours(default)
mylove4life
#14 Posted : Wednesday, July 27, 2011 12:35:38 AM
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thats the thing, been there for 2 days now...
Jake Morgan
#15 Posted : Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:48:21 AM
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If you check the log by opening the session, are there any entries within 24 hours?
nick.erkert
#16 Posted : Thursday, July 28, 2011 9:15:40 PM
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Will we be able to edit/delete notes in 2.3?
sysadmin
#17 Posted : Tuesday, August 09, 2011 1:43:23 PM
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Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but I can't get the permission system working. This is on the latest build as of today, 2.3.1779.4225.

I gave a group access to a particular unattended session group, but when I log in as a user in that group and click on Host, I am asked to login.

Here are the permissions I have the group:

ViewSessionGroup: 'TestGroup'
JoinSession: 'TestGroup', OwnedAndUnowned
EndSession: 'TestGroup', OwnedAndUnowned
TransferSession: 'TestGroup', OwnedAndUnowned
AddNoteToSession: 'TestGroup', OwnedAndUnowned

Jake Morgan
#18 Posted : Tuesday, August 09, 2011 2:18:10 PM
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That's a bug that's been fixed. We hope to have a new pre-release out soon.
PixelMonsters
#19 Posted : Tuesday, August 09, 2011 9:41:05 PM
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So does upgrading wipe out any custom work done to the (base) css file?
Jake Morgan
#20 Posted : Wednesday, August 10, 2011 12:02:32 AM
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Quote:
So does upgrading wipe out any custom work done to the (base) css file?


No, but it will kick the file out and save it in a backup directory. Then you'll need to merge the changes back in.

This is why we suggest you create your own theme instead of modifying files in the installation:
http://forum.screenconne...fy-our-style-sheets.aspx
straffin
#21 Posted : Thursday, September 01, 2011 5:43:37 PM
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So, we've dared with our server, and it all looks good so far, but there doesn't seem to be any relationship between the "label" used in creating an Unattended Session installer and the Mac Installer. Any pointers on how to get the "%COMPUTERNAME%" label (or something similar) functional on the Mac Installer? I understand that "%<anything>%" is a Windows convention ... what do we need to be using to extract this same information from a Mac?
Jake Morgan
#22 Posted : Thursday, September 01, 2011 5:50:06 PM
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%USER% OR %LOGNAME% should grab the logged in user ... but there is nothing for computer name. You can always add environment variables yourself to each machine to identify them
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straffin on 9/1/2011
straffin
#23 Posted : Thursday, September 01, 2011 10:32:41 PM
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Jake Morgan wrote:
%USER% OR %LOGNAME% should grab the logged in user ... but there is nothing for computer name. You can always add environment variables yourself to each machine to identify them

Any idea how (and where) we'd do that?
Jake Morgan
#24 Posted : Thursday, September 01, 2011 11:35:52 PM
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I'm not sure of the recommended way. Here is a discussion:
http://stackoverflow.com...nment-variables-in-os-x

You can probably put something in your screenconnect toolbox that will run and prompt you to change a variable.
Remotetekmatt
#25 Posted : Friday, September 02, 2011 4:41:16 PM
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Is their any way to get the .pkg to work with 10.4.11? as we have a couple clients with older macs
Jake Morgan
#26 Posted : Friday, September 02, 2011 6:25:05 PM
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I don't think so. It took a lot of work just to build this package format, and we picked it because it was the easiest:
http://s.sudre.free.fr/Stuff/Ivanhoe/FLAT.html

Apparently introduced in 10.4.

All the pkg does though is lay down the files. We put two files in /Library/ScreenConnect and one file in /Library/LaunchAgents. You can just build an installer for a 10.5+ machine and take those files off it and move to 10.4. Will require a reboot to start working.
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