WinReporter

WinReporter is a solution enabling rapid assessment, inventory, audit and classification of all Microsoft Windows components.

WinReporter retrieves detailed information about hardware, software and security settings from Windows systems and automatically generates reports.

Benefits of using WinReporter:

• Instantly get a comprehensive and updated vision of your Windows infrastructure: WinReporter collects virtually all information about every Windows system on your network (LAN and WAN). WinReporter then enables rapid inventory, assessment, audit and classification of all Microsoft Windows components (hardware, software, Windows settings, events).
• Save considerable time and effort on fastidious manual inventory: Manually auditing 5 Windows servers takes up to one full working day to a seasoned IT professional. WinReporter's agentless technology achieves the same result in minutes, remotely and without missing one piece of important information. Customizable, ready-to-use reports are then automatically generated.
• Get an immediate answer to virtually any question about your Windows systems: Which disk partitions are near capacity? Which users belong to these 2 groups? Who opened a session on this computer this morning? Which applications are generating error messages on this server? What are the permissions applied to this file and this shared folder?
  Using WinReporter, you will be able to set a valuable scan up in less than 2 minutes, and immediately get detailed, up-to-date, usable results.
• Set up an automated reporting to monitor key IT indicators: Keeping a sharp eye on some key IT indicators is mission critical for most System Administrators. You might want to track the evolution in free disk space, RAM and CPU usage, monitor added or removed software or devices, identify invalid or expired passwords, or check for added, removed, enabled or disabled user accounts. Just setup related scans and WinReporter will then automatically Email detailed reports to selected recipients at the frequency of your choice.

Main features include:

• Enterprise Hardware Inventory: retrieves all necessary information regarding your Windows systems: CPU, RAM, BIOS, video adapters, network cards (TCP/IP configuration), partitions, hard drives, printers, serial number, manufacturer model, devices, microprocessor platform, monitors and system slots.
• Enterprise Software Inventory: tracks and audits all your installed applications and Windows components, Windows Edition, files (versions and permissions), licence keys for Windows and Microsoft Office and autoruns
• Security Audit: WinReporter checks for security flaws by allowing you to:
  • identify computers missing appropriate patches or hotfixes,
  • find systems with unapproved local accounts or administrators,
  • display shares and folders permissions,
  • detect user accounts with expired passwords,
  • get detailed information about access to files,
  • track all logon and logoff activity throughout the network (including RAS and VPN sessions),
  • check for unnecessary or suspicious Windows services and processes,
  • identify servers with unauthorized shares.
• User Accounts Management: allows you to run queries on your users to determine: which group(s) they belong to, password age or validity, account status (enabled/disabled), or latest logon time.
• Change tracking: reports track the evolution in free disk space, RAM and CPU usage.
• Baseline analysis: allows you to perform comprehensive baseline analysis about installed software, services and shares.
• Comprehensive, automated reporting: all information collected by WinReporter can be displayed and printed using 58 different out-of-the-box reports enhanced with filter, sort options and graphics.
• Troubleshooting Analysis: gives you immediate access to detailed information that allows you to quickly isolate and respond to Windows systems problems.

WinReporter - Features

WinReporter is a solution enabling rapid assessment, inventory, audit and classification of all Microsoft Windows components (hardware, software, Windows settings, events). WinReporter instantly gives an updated and comprehensive vision of the Information Systems status.

Using WinReporter

Without requiring any preinstalled agents on targeted systems, WinReporter retrieves all necessary information regarding:

• Hardware : CPU, memory, used memory, BIOS, video adapters, network cards (TCP/IP configuration), partitions, hard drives, printers, serial number, manufacturer model, devices,
• Software : Installed applications, files (versions and permissions),
• Windows : Registry values, OS version, Internet Explorer version, Service Packs, hotfixes, event logs, services, SAM (users and groups), shares, shares permissions, Active Directory PDC roles,
• Event Logs : Event log analysis, logging activity, computer startups and shutdowns, file accesses, printing, service errors,

and stores it in a centralized ODBC database.
This information is then immediately exploitable using:

• 50 predefined reports
• Custom SQL queries

How does WinReporter work ?

WinReporter installs in minutes on a computer running Windows NT4, 2000, XP or 2003.

• The solution doesnt require any further configuration for the environments to audit or any agent deployment.
• The computers to scan and the information to be gathered are selected within a few clicks using the scan assistant.
• A tool-tip explanation for each component is displayed as the curser moves over the field.
• The collected information can then be displayed and printed using 50 different reports enhanced with filter and sort options as well as graphics. Customized SQL queries can also be used.
• WinReporter can be scheduled to run at regular intervals to obtain updated inventories and evolution reporting.

WinReporter Features

ZERO Deployment
Based on an agentless technology, WinReporter installs in a couple of minutes and doesnt require any deployment.

Ease of use
Selection of the target computers and the information to be captured is the matter of a few clicks using the scan assistant. Each component is explained by a tool-tip as the curser moves over its field.

Target computer selection
WinReporter can scan an entire domain or organizational unit. Computer selection can also be made by IP range(s) and/or manually. WinReporter can scan approved domains, unapproved domains as well as groups.

Performances and work loads
Entirely multithread, WinReporter adapts easily to the amount of computers or components to analyze by allowing the administrator to regulate the number of threads scanning the network.

Network snapshots
WinReporter enables network evolution tracking and analysis by taking network snapshots. The snapshot manager can merge snapshots, transfer them from one database to another and delete computers within a snapshot, and renders possible multi scans for very big networks and unavailable computer management.

Advanced Reporting

• Most reports can be sorted per the displayed fields.
• Computers can be grouped per Active Directory container (instead of per domain). In this case, the Active Directorys tree is displayed in the report options tab.
• Reports can be automatically generated after a scheduled scan, to update an intranet for example.

Use with RemoteExec
The list of computers generated in any report can be exported as a target computer list for RemoteExec (.rec format).

RemoteExec, an IS Decisions software, is a universal program/service pack/hotfix/patch/system action deployer. The combination of these solutions provides a very powerful evolution management suite.

Compatibility
WinReporter is ODBC compatible, a simplified assistant is provided to select Access, SQL Server and Oracle.

Reports and customization
The 50 reports are classed in 5 categories:

Hardware

• Added / Removed printers (new)
• Drivers versions (new)
• Manufacturer repartition
• Model repartition
• CPU speed distribution
• Disk size distribution
• Memory size distribution
• Added / Removed devices
• Computer inventory
• General requirements
• Disk space analysis
• Memory upgrade
• Devices
• Printers
• Video configuration
• Disk space evolution
• Memory space evolution
• CPU evolution

Software

• Software versions (new)
• Folder sizes (new)
• Install statistics
• Product location analysis
• Newly Installed products
• Software analysis policy

Windows

• Windows components version (new)
• Services (new)
• OS version repartition
• Service Pack repartition
• Hotfix installation percentage
• Services changes
• Added / Removed shares
• Added / removed users
• Service Packs and Hotfixes
• Users in groups
• Services analysis
• Local accounts analysis
• Local administrators analysis
• Shares analysis
• Folder permissions
• Account logon analysis
• Scheduled tasks
• Registry values

General

• Added/Removed Computers
• Computer changes
• Generic query
• Scan errors & warnings
• Global report

Event Logs

• RAS / VPN statistics (new)
• RAS / VPN evolution (new)
• Printing history (new)
• Users priting statistics (new)
• Printing evolution (new)
• Files access report
• Generic event report
• Logon/Logoff activity
• Process tracking
• Service errors
• Computer start & shutdowns
• RAS & VPN connections

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WinReporter - System Requirements

System Requirements

For the computer running WinReporter

• Windows XP
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows 2000
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Vista
• Windows NT 4
• Service Pack 6 and Internet Explorer 5 or more for Windows NT 4.0
• 128 MB RAM
• 100 MB free disk space

For computers being scanned

• Windows XP
• Windows Vista
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows 2000
• Windows NT 4
• Windows 95, 98, Me with Microsoft Remote Administration and Registry Service installed