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Online Learning Video: Tab Groups in SecureCRT

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In this video, you’ll learn how to create groups of tabs in SecureCRT, arranged either left-to-right or top-to-bottom. You’ll also see an example of how to connect one or more sessions into a new tab group.

Discover how to resize tab groups, move a tab from one group to another, and how to broadcast commands to all tabs in one or more selected tab groups.

Tab Groups in SecureCRT

You can see more SecureCRT videos on the SecureCRT video page and the VanDyke Software YouTube Channel.

8.5.3 Maintenance Releases of SecureCRT, SecureFX, and ClientPack Now Available

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8.5.3 maintenance releases are now available for SecureCRT, SecureFX, and ClientPack.

Download the 8.5.3 releases today. As always, you can evaluate these new releases without charge for 30 days.

Watch the video below for an overview of the new features in SecureCRT 8.5.

SecureCRT 8.5 gives you new ways to customize your workflow with a Button Bar Manager for adding, deleting, duplicating, and rearranging multiple button bars, the ability to configure the Command window to send commands to different sessions, and enhancements to the multi-line paste dialog. Individual Quick Connect sessions can now be saved.

“Being able to review and edit the multi-line paste confirmation dialog is a game changer for my team. This last fail safe before code gets entered saves us from making mistakes. My team gets a chance to review and validate that they are on the correct device and that there are no errors.” – David A. Torode, network analyst, Beaumont Health

SecureFX 8.5 improves your workflow with a Bookmark Manager for adding, deleting, editing, and copying bookmarks as well as other bookmark enhancements. Externally launched sessions automatically open in the existing SecureFX application window. SFXCL enhancements give you more options for automated file transfers

New in SecureCRT 8.5 (Official)

  • Improved button bar management: The Button Bar Manager allows you to add, duplicate, edit, delete, rename, and rearrange button bars. Admins who use a large number of buttons can use the Button Manager to rearrange, edit, add, delete, copy, and paste buttons.
  • Multi-line paste dialog improvements: You can now review and edit the text in the multi-line paste confirmation dialog before it gets pasted into a session, reducing potential errors. The confirmation dialog can also be resized.
  • Save ad hoc sessions: You now have the ability to save individual sessions that were connected using Quick Connect, the Connect bar, or the command line.
  • Script status indicator: A script status indicator shows you when a script is running in tabbed and tiled sessions.
  • Command window: Configure the Command window to send commands to all sessions, the visible sessions, or the active session by default.

New in SecureFX 8.5 (Official)

  • Bookmark enhancements: A Bookmark Manager makes it easier for you to add, delete, and edit bookmarks as well as copy them from another session. The File menu and the file view context menu now show all bookmarks.
  • Single application window: If SecureFX is already running and a new SecureFX session is launched from SecureCRT, from the system desktop, or from the command line, the new session will open in the existing SecureFX application window.
  • SFXCL enchancements: New parameters have been added for customizing output and to give you more options for automated file transfers.

New in VanDyke ClientPack 8.5 (Official)

  • vsh/vsftp/vcp enhancements: vsh, vsftp, and vcp now have support for the hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com and hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com MACs.

You can download any of the 8.5.3 releases from the download page.

Find out more about the 8.5.3 Official releases:

Please see the history files for a complete list of changes:

We want to hear your feedback. Send questions, requests, or bug reports to support@vandyke.com

Online Learning Video: The SecureCRT SFTP Tab

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In this video, you’ll learn about SecureCRT’s SFTP tab and how it can facilitate file transfers as an operational SFTP client within a command-line tab of SecureCRT when connected to an SSH2 server that supports the SFTP subsystem.

The SFTP Tab in SecureCRT

You can see more SecureCRT videos on the SecureCRT video page and the VanDyke Software YouTube Channel.

Online Learning Video: SecureCRT Button Bar Enhancements

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With SecureCRT’s button bar, you can store frequent actions or commands and recall them with the click of a button, saving you time and effort.

This video covers new functionality added to SecureCRT button bar since the video, How to Use SecureCRT’s Button Bar, was published.

Learn about repositioning the button bar at the top/bottom of the terminal window, suppressing hover tooltip text associated with SEND_STRING buttons, performing a button’s action on all connected/unlocked tabs, rearranging buttons with drag-and-drop, activating another button bar with the click of a button, and using the new Button Manager and Button Bar Manager.

SecureCRT Button Bar Enhancements

You can see more SecureCRT videos on the SecureCRT video page and the VanDyke Software YouTube Channel.