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Providing Watchman Monitoring to the Macintosh Community, and working to keep it the monitoring product on the market.

Manual CrashPlan PROe Server Backups, Daylite Savings Time, And You

Watchman Monitoring keeps tabs on all flavors of CrashPlan backups. From the Green Home user plans, to Blue for Business, and CrashPlan Black Enterprise (PROe). Along with monitoring the backup status at the end-point layer, our CrashPlan server plugin notifies IT Professionals should the nightly 1 AM backup fail to happen. While this is normally a sign of […]

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Dashboard Update – Feb 2015 – Merge, Rename, Export – Oh My!

Features Groups can now be renamed using their Action menu. Merging Groups also seemed like a good idea, so it’s added too We’ve added a link to see all the issues in a current Group While viewing the issues in the slide-out modal, Previous and Next buttons scroll through results.  Left and Right arrow keys function as well. When viewing

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Windows Beta 35b – Superfish certificate detection

Just a simple update, in response to a new vulnerability, and a request from our Community Forum. Feature Detects and reports the presence of the vulnerable Superfish certificate. What we love about this is that it’s a fairly simple test, and one that’s not normally going to covered by the average anti-malware or anti-virus, as a faulty

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Northwest Mac Pro Meeting March 4th – Strong Communities

Not every big city that has a the sense of community as we’ve seen in Seattle. The Northwest Mac Pro community is an active, cutting edge group of Mac Professionals, dedicated to encouraging each others’ growth and success. This March 4th, Watchman Monitoring is sponsoring their “Feed your belly, grow your business” meeting, where we will review ways

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Watchman Monitoring's 2015 Event Calendar

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Mac Client 6.0.2 – Time Machine Overhaul

Features Complete Time Machine reporting rewrite, with per-destination reporting on 10.8+ Full support for Gruntwork 2.1 Two Malware additions: MacKontrol & SabPab The Contact Menu to be quit for the current session with Command-Option Click Gathers information to build BlueSky remote support URLs Bug Fixes Support for UPS on Laptops. More reliable reporting of Casper

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Windows Beta 34b – Focus on reporting and installation

Features Updated digital signing removes the Watchman Monitoring brand from the install process. Custom .RTF file now used for pre-install message (see Custom Branding) Add post-install dialog (Support for custom RTF summary is planned) More efficient reporting, with support for report retrying failed reports Changes Better builder log messaging Fixed issues with builder file deletion

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