The next 2 weeks I'm in Redmond and Seattle. I'm attending the TAP meeting for the next OpsMgr release and some friends are attending a SQL server conference in Seattle. Anyhow, I have now the chance - for the first time - to see the MS campus and I am really excited about it. Of course, I am also looking forward to meet all the nice guys from the OpsMgr product team.

When I'm back I will continue the work on the release of Royal TS 1.6.0. The code is pretty much ready to roll.

One little teaser: Royal TS will sport a very flexible way to execute tasks (command line) on one or more connections. You will have access to almost all connection settings from these commands by using special variables. I'm sure you'll love it.

By default I will ship at least 2 pre-defined tasks: "ping.exe $Hostname$" and "ping.exe $Hostname$ -t"

For those who like to use a "Wake On LAN" helper tool, someone could easily implement a task like "wol.exe $PhysicalAddress$"; yes a new field to store the MAC address was added too

Everybody can create new tasks and extend Royal TS. For example: starting the eventviewer or computermanagement MMC for the selection. Open a directory, file or URL. And many, many more.