Macro Scheduler — March 2011 Newsletter

New Video Tutorial - Using The Debugger

Macro Scheduler veteran John Brozycki has put together this fantastic video tutorial all about Macro Scheduler's debugging capabilities. The video is 18 minutes long and demonstrates every debug feature, showing examples of their use and talks about how useful the debugger can be for problem resolution as well as script creation. Take a look:

John Brozycki is an information security professional who uses Macro Scheduler as a tool to accomplish a wide range of tasks in his daily activities. His personal web site is www.trueinsecurity.com.

I think this is an excellent tutorial which all script developers should benefit from. Thanks John!

Macro Scheduler Consultant Spotlight with Gary DalSanto

In our latest podcast series Tracy talks to Gary DalSanto of Inventive Software Designs who is one of our partner consultants providing customers with custom automation solutions and helping them with their Macro Scheduler script development.

Gary has been working with Macro Scheduler since 2006 on a large variety of different automation scenarios. His first experience of Macro Scheduler was when he converted a large scale IBM Rational Robot project over to Macro Scheduler and found that Macro Scheduler matched the functionality at a much lower cost.

"I quickly found out that not only Macro Scheduler could perform all the functionality that we were using with the higher priced commercial tool, but it could also do it for a fraction of the cost. So from that point on, I was pretty much sold."

Since then Gary has used Macro Scheduler in projects as diverse as data migration in Telecoms companies to automating ordering systems in a College Bookstore.

"So to summarize it all up, by automating all these processes for them over the course of less than a year, the store turned a profit for the first time in the history of the store."

Gary has worked with many MJT Net customers, building custom automation solutions for them using Macro Scheduler, and providing assistance with their own scripts.

Podcast: Gary DalSanto - Part 1: Telecoms Company Data Transfer

Podcast: Gary DalSanto - Part 2: Bookstore Order Processing Automation

More info and contact details for Gary are here.

Macro Scheduler Enterprise Now Shipping With Client Runtimes

Macro Scheduler Enterprise is now shipping with a 5 x Macro Scheduler Runtime Client license pack as standard. The Macro Scheduler Client Runtime provides all the runtime functionality of Macro Scheduler Std without the ability to edit/modify scripts. It can be installed onto an end-user PC and scripts can be imported and assigned to triggers, hotkeys or schedules, or executed as needed.

With Enterprise you can create macros for use on other machines, compile them to executables or use the runtime client to configure them to run on workstations in the same way you would with Macro Scheduler Std but without the end-user being able to create or modify scripts themselves.

Client Runtimes can also be used in conjunction with msNet to allow for execution of scripts on remote workstations.

A Macro Scheduler Enterprise license now ships as standard with a 5 Client Runtime pack. Additional packs are available.

Customers with existing Enterprise licenses purchased before the introduction of runtime licenses may be eligible for a free runtime pack and are invited to contact us if one is required.

More Info

Staying in Touch

There are a number of ways of getting in touch with us. For support there's the forums and, of course, our new help desk. It should be noted that the forums are primarily for peer-to-peer discussion and while I try my best to monitor new posts I may sometimes miss some. In contrast our help desk is monitored continuously and every ticket gets a response.

Feel free to reply to this email if you wish to contact me personally, and I'll do my best to answer, but this mail box does tend to get jammed up with out of office responses and other bounces. So if I miss your email I apologise. If you don't get a response, it's nothing personal - drop me a line via the help desk instead. I can't always be available, but there will always be someone on the support desk.

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