Lansweeper Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Lansweeper does a great job of scanning our network and providing data on our equipment. For example a desktop PC or laptop can be scanned and you are provided a detailed breakdown of peripherals, software, and hardware. It gives a quick snapshot with both high and low levels of information. Another great feature is that is can show switch information along with what is connected to all ports.

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If you want an easy way to find everything attached to your network then this is the tool for you. It is fun to drill down into the data and see which users are attached to devices and things like that. Assets can be tracked very well and searches are a vital part of finding data.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Lansweeper is great took for asset management, we use it to track our laptops, desktops, phones and tablets and it works great with our ITSM and InTune. It makes asset tracking and management much easier. It helps us determine which laptops are not being used, track the major updates and unregistered software.

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Its very useful for large organisations, over 2000 laptops , phones and tablets and it can also be used for servers, VM's firewalls, office equipment etc. It can help a lot of managing updates and security patching as well as just knowing what is being used on your network and what is not. For smaller organisations it probably more feasible to get some all0in-one product with remote access and other features.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

With all the IT asset across various office globally, we need to have a centralize IT asset management software to inventories all the IT assets (hardware and software) in my organization as a single source of truth. The benefit of this SaaS product is without the need to install agents on all IT equipment for discovery and making it easier to deploy.

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Lansweeper have so many features it has available for use by IT professionals. It also allows us to search all IT assets that are connected to the network, including hardware details and software versions that helping us keep track of all our assets. The user interface is a bit outdates and controls are not exactly intuitive.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Lansweeper in the company for several functions, among them it is related to the inventory and control of all assets in our network (Desktops, Notebooks, Servers, Switches, IP Phone, Materials in stock...) in addition to keeping the monitoring of our environment VMware Hypervisor. We recommend using Lansweeper for a company's entire IT environment by taking inventory of assets online. Lansweeper enabled us to successfully pass 5 Microsoft audits in compliance.

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Lansweeper is used for many IT functions. It shows me all my network-connected devices, including details about my PC's and Servers. I can see what processor, RAM, and Hard drives they have, so if I'm planning to upgrade, this makes it easier. I can also see who is logged on to that PC and its IP address. It also scans the PC's for what software they have and if the hard drive is full. You can create canned or custom reports using simple SQL code that many users provide to create the reports and alerts. I have one alert that tells me if a printer is getting low on toner. Another that looks at my domain server for any users that have locked their account. I also have a very nice helpdesk module that you can also create reports and alerts on. Lansweeper is so easy to create what you need due to the SQL aspect of it. And if you have less than 100 devices, it's free.

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<ul><li>Lansweeper is well suited for any IT department, from small to mid-sized. This would be for that advanced IT person that understands they need to see what's on their network and a little about SQL to create Reports and Alerts.</li><li> It may be too much for that small 5-10 user company, but remember its free if you have 100 devices or less.</li></ul>

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Form helpdesk to an automated inventory scan, Lansweeper has saved us so much time it's immeasurable. We (for the IT department) bought Lansweeper primarily to keep up with software licenses and to manage hardware warranties, but it's a very valuable asset management tool all around. We probably only use a few of its functionality, but it's worth the lesser price just for that.

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I am a big fan of software scanning and software license information. Lansweeper saved us dozens of hours of license and asset detail collection so far. All the functionalities are there, and they are flexible but do require some research from time to time. The same goes for deployment and reporting. The tools are there, and quite a lot of default content is available, but if you want to take full advantage of the tool's power, get creative, and do some research.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are currently utilizing Lansweeper as our go-to IT asset inventory database. Prior to installation, we were able to discern data from Active Directory, countless Excel sheets, and "chicken-scratch" notebooks to track inventory and serials. Lansweeper has allowed us to centralize our inventory into one location, which automatically updates as we make changes to our environment.

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Lansweeper I believe is well suited for any environment - its low cost and small footprint make it an easy addition to any organization, big or small, that is looking for an asset inventory solution that can either replace or supplement existing asset management systems. It may not be well suited for situations where a lot of customization is necessary, such as pulling in custom fields or details from equipment that don't reside in a registry.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our university, Lansweeper is mainly being used for computers and hardware inventory over the network and outside our network. We needed an inventory solution that wasn't requiring the server to probe the clients for security reasons. It's now being used by nearly all our IT staff departments. Also, we needed something where we could show data on multiple angles because we have different IT teams over several buildings that support specific VLANs of machines.

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Lansweeper is well suited for small, medium and large businesses with LAN-only devices and outside as well. It's great to scan all sort of things and reporting them to you in the way you want (graphics, charts, tables, etc.). I have no clue about their help desk features cause we're not using them but I could see a benefit from using one tool for two things. It still has some room for improvement for mobile devices and MacOS and Linux devices scan with agents, but they're working on it so there's hope.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Lansweeper is being used by the IT department for the City. We use it to track IT assets and pull data from it for use in our chargeback calculations. We also utilize it for planning our replacement schedule each year for end-user systems.

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Pro: Easy to set up and start scanning the network. Multiprotocol support. Multi-device support. Linking assets such as monitors to the desktop they are connected to. Linking devices to the switch and port they are connected to.

Con: Price is making a large jump this year. Needs a better way to remove assets from reporting when retired without removing it completely from the database.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Lansweeper is currently being used by my organization as our main inventory tool. Let me say from the very start that I did not configure Lansweeper for us, so my obervations and reviews are based on the current configuration that we use and what I have done with it. We do not use the software deployment features, only the inventory, but for what we use it for it works very well. I run it from a virtual server, and I can check to see how many PCs have what software installed, I can see a current users PC name, or vice versa, and see a certain PC's current user. I can also set up collections based on software.

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Lansweeper would be ideal for an educational setup, for example, where there are just a few VLANs where nothing is moved around. Lansweeper will suffice, but is not ideal for a call center enterprise scenario where a company owns sites in several different locations, with many different VLANs, and is moving machines back and forth between locations.