

at work on this freezing screen “interrupt” issue that occurs every 6 hours or so & which results in various error messages (1 of which is the PowerENGAGE error message).Īlso, Mark, are you saying that you agree the final solution to this issue is that I should request that my IT Dept. Also, do you know if the issue began when Windows 10 was rolled out? I am not an IT person, but I am the user having the issue, & I am working with my IT Dept. I was inquiring as to whether you knew if Brother had ever stepped up and advised their customers as to what to do about all the system PowerENGAGE error messages (& many others) that customers (who install the Brother printer driver on new Brother HL-元290CDW printers have been experiencing? I went to & do not see where Brother has addressed any issues regarding this. “Hello Mark, thank you for your prompt reply. Posted in IT Administration Tagged Brother, printers If that doesn’t work, or when installing in the future, do a custom install and deselect Research and Support. They confirm that I can uninstall PowerENGAGE from Add or remove programs. Update I’ve now heard back from upper-level Brother support. For now, I have disabled the scheduled task. Ironically, I probably wouldn’t have noticed it if it had not been configured in such a way that it fails when a non-admin user is logged in. I’m not a fan of programs that run repeatedly to ask me to register, provide feedback, or buy supplies. The Aviata PowerENGAGE page explains that it is a suite of “in-product communication modules” so vendors can “Expand your marketable universe and start engaging with 100% of your customers.” Modules include PowerREGISTER, PowerFEEDBACK, PowerSALES, and PowerSUPPORT.

The Add or remove programs entry points to Aviata as the creator. However, following security best practices, users do not have admin privileges, so the installation fails.

(msiexec parameters are documented here.) The first action of the scheduled task is to do a repair install (msiexec with /f parameter) of the PowerENGAGE program: There is a new scheduled task that runs every six hours when the user is logged on: “Brother PowerENGAGE” was installed as part of the printer installation and has its own entry under Add or remove programs: Try the installation again using a valid copy of the installation package ‘PowerENGAGE-3.2.13.msi’. An installation package for the product PowerENGAGE cannot be found. Now, every few hours, the following error is logged in the Application event log:ĭescription: Product: PowerENGAGE - Error 1706. I installed the full software for it on their Windows 10 Pro systems. A customer purchased a Brother MFC-8900CDW laser printer.
