On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Malcolm Greene <[email protected]> wrote:
> Head scratcher: I have a client who grew so fast that they > never had time to track their workstation inventory. They have > about 100 laptops that they know they purchased, but can't find > out who has them. Any suggestions on tools or techniques I > might use to assist this client finding their laptops? > Customer has Active Directory 2003/2008, an enterprise version > of Symantec, Exchange 2007 with OWA users, and a large Citrix > 4.5 sp3 farm with a Citrix Netscaler front end. > I suspect that most of the laptop users connect to the > mothership remotely through Citrix or OWA vs. onsite so I can't > capture these laptops via a physical inventory. > --------------- Track-it is a pretty good application that you can enable via the login script. you have to pay for it and I bet it is expensive. It also does a great job for the IT support group that may already be in place who needs a Work Order system as well as a logging of trouble tickets in who did what for them. The product has been bought and sold a lot of times, started in Clipper. I did the FPW conversion. Went to Access when the app would no longer fit on a 3.5 disk. It will audit all software and hardware on every asset in your environment if you want. Have worked for 3 different employers since I wrote my bit in 94 who have used it as well. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAJidMYLPSA5Urj=g4hc3_vbgf8pihe-s9r6c5fo3sxeixbu...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
