Windows NT Machines not Recognized

[davemann]

Hi,

Everything so far with Lansweeper 4.0 beta has gone great for me so far... but I do notice that you've dropped or neglected to include support for the recognition of NT4 Workstation/Desktop machines.

I know that most people aren't still running this, but I can imagine that there would be some environments that still do (even though it's very very bad). Since WMI can be installed on NT4, there should be some data that can be collected, as it was with LS 3.5.

Just some other comments:

- I had a 1.3GB database, and it took about 5 hours to convert with SQL Express on an older Dual Xeon System, since SQL Express 2005 doesn't allow SMP.

- Some of my custom reports had to be updated, as the computername field doesn't mean the same thing anymore, had to add the computerunique field to them so that it showed up when running the report out of the report builder, and the web console.

- Love that I can now export from the web console. Awesome.

- A feature I would love to see in the report builder is "Duplicate report", meaning, take an existing report, copy it, rename it and title it (copy), so you can just duplicate an existing report easily and rename it.

-Dave

[davemann]

The database is currently sitting at 1.4GB, so it didn't really grow much.

Something that I also have a comment on as far as the license compliance section goes.. it would be nice if you could just enter in the inventory of licenses as they relate to purchases..

- Enter that you bought x number of licenses for x product, on date m/d/y, from vendor, purchase order number, and price.
- Count up the total number of licenses for a particular product purchased, and then calculate that against the number of installed ones for compliance.
- Since you currently check for licenses missing and calculate the $$$ needed to true up, you should also calculate if there are excess licenses, how many, and how much $$$ in excess inventory it represents too.

Also, I like that software can be grouped together by version finally, but it would be nice if there were a simpler way of doing it..

For example, where the main product name is say, "Microsoft Office Standard 2007" and hold no indication of sub-version, but since there are multiple versions, the product we should be checking for compliance should be labelled "Microsoft Office Standard 2007", and the versions recognized would be added to that master item. Being able to shift-select multiple products that are really the same, but a slightly different patch level, and add them as one would probably make it easier, rather than adding one version, and then add the other versions to it as a group afterwards.

[Hemoco]

Everything so far with Lansweeper 4.0 beta has gone great for me so far... but I do notice that you've dropped or neglected to include support for the recognition of NT4 Workstation/Desktop machines.

I know that most people aren't still running this, but I can imagine that there would be some environments that still do (even though it's very very bad). Since WMI can be installed on NT4, there should be some data that can be collected, as it was with LS 3.5.

Lansweeper never supported NT4, if it worked with 3.5 it was by chance.

- I had a 1.3GB database, and it took about 5 hours to convert with SQL Express on an older Dual Xeon System, since SQL Express 2005 doesn't allow SMP.

How big was your database after the conversion?

- A feature I would love to see in the report builder is "Duplicate report", meaning, take an existing report, copy it, rename it and title it (copy), so you can just duplicate an existing report easily and rename it.

Good idea.