Managing Software

How Lansweeper scans antivirus information

This page explains how Lansweeper On-Prem detects, reports, and customizes antivirus software information for your Windows computers. This page is for Lansweeper On-prem. For Lansweeper Sites, see View antivirus software. By default, Lansweeper incl...

Software installations vs. software license keys

Lansweeper scans both the software installations and the software license keys found on Windows computers in your network. It's important to note that, from a Lansweeper point of view, these two pieces of scanned data are completely unrelated. Instal...

View and scan software installations on Windows computers

Unless you manually disable the software scan item, Lansweeper scans the Windows computers in your network for installed software. Software info of Linux and Mac computers is also retrieved. The Reports menu of the web console includes built-in repor...

Mark software and add-ons as authorized

Software on Windows computers can be marked as authorized (approved), unauthorized (denied) or unrated (neutral). By default, any new software detected in your network is marked as neutral. When you've configured software authorization, you can use o...