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Update Lansweeper Classic

It is recommended that you update your Lansweeper installation on a regular basis, to ensure that you have the latest available patches installed and access to any new features that have been released. You can verify whether you have the latest Lansw...

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Back up your installation

It is recommended that you back up your Lansweeper installation on a regular basis, especially prior to performing any updates. An unexpected shutdown of your Lansweeper server could lead to an update failure and subsequent database corruption. A man...

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Restore your installation from a backup

If you manually created a backup of your Lansweeper installation, you can always restore it at a later date if necessary. Which restore procedure you should follow depends on which database server you are using, Microsoft SQL Compact or Microsoft SQL...

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Perform automated database cleanups

Once an asset is scanned and added to the database, Lansweeper will not remove it unless instructed to do so. You can manually delete old assets or have them deleted automatically through your database cleanup options, found in the web console under ...

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Impact of a Lansweeper migration on LsAgent scanning

LsAgent is a cross-platform, lightweight scanning agent that you can install on Windows, Linux and Mac computers. It automatically collects an inventory from the computer it's installed on and sends the data back to your Lansweeper installation, eith...

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Silently update remote scanning servers

There is a built-in Lansweeper deployment package you can use to silently update the Lansweeper Server service of remote scanning servers. This is useful if you have a lot of servers and don't want to manually update each machine. Update one scanning...

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Check for Lansweeper updates

It is recommended that you update your Lansweeper installation on a regular basis, to ensure that you have the latest available patches installed and access to any new features that have been released. Updates are free to anyone with an active Lanswe...

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