Divide "Software" and "Microsoft/Windows Updates"

[pice]

In our software overview we have 1485 products shown at the moment. That is a lot to process and a lot to control/handle. We would like a feature to give/apply the found products to one of three categories and a display filter, which shows only the selected categories. For example:

1. Microsoft- / Windows-Updates
2. Hardware drivers and tools
3. Applications

This would give us the ability to divide the ~1500 products in three big chunks. In our case ~250 different applications ~600 different Windows Updates ~650 different drivers or driver revisions... It would be a one time task to sort the software and apply the right category to it and then there should be a report that show new software which has no category applied to.

Another cool thing would be a "comparison" report for drivers. For example you have 200 Computers - all with the same network card, but installed with different driver revisions. It would be great if the report could tell you manually or automated which driver revision is the latest and should be deployed to all computers with the same networt adapter...

I hope you like my ideas - thanks - pice !

[Roberjr]

Just checking to see if there has been any progress made to implement this feature.

[sbukovic526]

It would be helpful if a general patch mgmt reporting could be incorporated into Lansweeper.

Items like:
-Servers/Workstations/Devices not patched or updated in 30/60/90 day increments.
-Network Devices not running latest IOS.
-Firmware not up to date reports.

[cojast]

To expand on this a little... not everyone would want groups or categories...
I think it would be better to give the user the ability to customize thier layout.

Right now for software you group all the version under the manufacture name... for us we would rather not have that and would rather just see all the version laid out. Same thing with these categories... it might not be something that everyone wants and if it was just a radio button in a custiomize options field that changes the layout that would be awesome

[Hemoco]

It is still on our wish list, but we cannot give you a release date for it.

[pice]

Any news on the categorization of Software, because at this point Drivers, OEM Software ( Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo ) and Windows Updates are the majority of the 1417 entries in our Software Journal and it gets worse everytime we add a new model ( Notebook, Desktop PC ) to our network. We would love to have options to divide the whole bunch for example into the categories Drivers, OEM Software, Windows Updates, Standard Software, Custom Software...

[Hemoco]

Manual or automated software categorization will be included as a feature in a future Lansweeper release, but we do not currently have a release date for this unfortunately. Our focus at the moment is developing a help desk.

[pice]

If not automated please consider the option to give the user an option to apply categories to different software products themselves... With this option we would be able to sort our software repositories much more efficient.

[cbeydler]

pice wrote:
If not automated please consider the option to give the user an option to apply categories to different software products themselves... With this option we would be able to sort our software repositories much more efficient.

This would be almost as helpful as it happening automatically. Take the time to do it once and never worry about it again.

[Hemoco]

We have been testing for a way to put all software in different categories automatically.

Solitaire -> Game
F-secure -> Antivirus
...

We might work on this some day but our current list of unique manufacturer/software name includes over 600.000 entries!