Product usage
Hardware and Software Inventory.
Control company's hardware and software by collecting the information about their current status and compare it with the history data.
Preparation for migration and upgrades.
Reports on computer components and hard disk space provide a complete hardware inventory and data to determine needs for upgrades or replacement of computers.
License Management.
MAPILab Reports for Hardware and Software Inventory can automate two major operations in license management – inventory and comparison of the number of used and purchased licenses. Reports on the license keys of Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and other Microsoft products identify which licenses are in use in which groups of computers.
Identifying changes.
What new software was installed on the computers at last month? MAPILab Reports for Hardware and Software Inventory answers dozens of such questions.
Troubleshooting.
The product includes reports about unexpected shutdowns, applications which are not responding and application errors; this helps determine the scope of hardware errors or critical power failures and provide early identification of problems with new software or updates.
Incident investigation.
Historical reports in the product enable you to go back in time and determine who had access to file archives, who was the local administrator of a computer at a given time, when the hard drive was stolen or when new software was installed.
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Key features
Free licensing.
MAPILab Reports for Hardware and Software Inventory license is free for commercial and non-commercial use.
Flexible filter system.
There is no special “Number of Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007 installed in the organization” report designed in the product. But it is possible to take the “Installed Software” report, specify a filter [Display Name = Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007] and get the necessary data. The “Installed Software” report offers more than 10 filters, which allows you to construct a lot of specific reports.
Agentless data collection.
All data is collected remotely, without installation of software agents on monitored servers and workstations and without remote execution of code. Therefore, product execution is extremely simple and safe.
MMC console.
The console used to set up data collection and generate reports is a Microsoft Management Console snap-in, which allows you to include it in the existing snaps-ins of IT employees.
Automatic generation of reports.
Reports can be created from the console using the report wizard, or be automatically generated according to a schedule. After creating a report, MAPILab Reports for Hardware and Software Inventory can save it to a disk, publish it on the
FTP or SharePoint, send it by email in any of the supported open formats (HTML, Excel, PDF, CSV, TIFF, PNG, etc.) or the internal MPRD format, where further operations such as data filtering, sorting and changing the visual schemes can be performed.
Adjustable report design.
The product includes a report designer, which allows you to change the report arrangement and appearance, and a visual scheme editor used for easy creation of custom report profiles, defining the report element style.
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