New Year = New Discoveries Discussion! 🚀

[Tim_N]

The New Year is in full swing, and February 10th marks Computer Cleanup Day—the perfect time to refresh your IT environment! Whether you’ve uncovered something surprising, cleaned up outdated data, or fine-tuned your Lansweeper setup, we want to hear about it. Let’s celebrate both a fresh start and a cleaner, more efficient network!

🔍 How to Participate:

• New Finds – Did Lansweeper uncover an unexpected device, an old server still running, or a rogue asset? What’s the story behind it?!

• Configuration Wins – Have you fine-tuned your Lansweeper setup, built a useful report, or optimized your scanning? Great teaching moment – Show it off!

• Spring Cleaning – Removed outdated assets, cleaned up software installs, or tightened up security? Tell us how it sparkles!

📸 Feel free to post a screenshot (redact sensitive info) or provide a short description and let us know what you discovered, fixed, or improved!

[Tim_N]

I'll start -- I don't know how many times I have been a part of standups or meetings where hardware engineers complain about running out of compute due to all of the servers... to have the SysAdmin team (including myself) explain how we have so many servers that aren't needed. 

Come to find out, we had plenty of compute... just needed to turn off and delete the virtual servers. 🤦

But I've also been on the other side... the server(s) has been turned off and deleted but I never took it out of Lansweeper. Making sure database cleanup is configured is a huge help. Making sure "remove from Lansweeper" is a checkbox in the run book is another good idea. 

[rinks]

Is there a specific report you use to view active vs inactive servers or something that shows when the server was last logged into/used?

[Tim_N]

Hello @rinks 

Since Lansweeper isn't a monitoring tool, it does not report when a user logs in. If you want to know when a new user logs in/out, I'd recommend using LsPush or the new IT Agent Portable (if you are using the new discovery technology that syncs directly to the cloud). 

You'll want to create a login/off script that will run when they login. It will trigger Lansweeper's agent to scan and then you'll see when the new user has logged in. 

After you have that in place, you can view the results in a report that is found in the On-Premises console:

"Windows: Last logon detected during scanning, per user" 

"Windows: User logons detected during scanning in last 7 days"

I hope this is helpful.