User Installable Software Attribution

[DaveinJP]

Is there a report-exposable field to determine the user that installed a user-specific software?

Example: Google Chrome

Software shows as installed. It also shows as User Specific Software. Is there anything that will tell me which user profile it is installed to or who installed it?

[Daniel_B · Accepted solution]

Yes, this is true. There is no way to scan software installations for another user than the currently logged on one (except we perform a broader search through the registry which we currently don't do for performance reasons).
You might consider setting up logon scripts on the computers in your network which initiate an LsPush scan after every user logon. If history logging is enabled, you can find per-user installations in the history of your assets (or in a report including tables tblSoftwareHist and tblSoftwareUni).

[DaveinJP]

So if I see Google Chrome, it will always be the most current logged user, according to Lansweeper, that installed it? That's a big help, thanks!

[DaveinJP]

Are you saying that Lansweeper does not scan per-user software on the machine if someone else is logged in? That means then that Lansweeper is missing some software inventories on machines it scans and isn't representing a true picture of what's installed.

[Daniel_B]

You might consider reporting on both per-user software installations and the last scanned user who was logged on (tblAssets.Username). Software which was installed for a single user will only be scanned if that user was logged on during the last scan.