New customers - what do you use?

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  1. Boycie
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    Boycie Senior Beer Tester

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    hi,

    I would be interested to hear what tools and utilities other members use when taking on a new customer -from an overall audit perspective.
    Let's assume minimal information is available from the previous I.T people!

    Thanks!
     
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  2. simongrahamuk
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    simongrahamuk Hmmmmmmm?

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    When you say customer I assume that you mean a new company? i.e. In a merger or take over of some sort?
     
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    Or when a company hands their IT support to your company? as in, "I ditched the last support company because they sucked, so I signed a contract with Boycie for 12 months"
     
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  4. Boycie
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    Boycie Senior Beer Tester

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    hi,

    sorry, didnt explain very well. i was speaking from an outsourced perspective. i.e, i am working for a company providing managed i.t services.
     
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  5. BosonMichael
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    Shoot, Boycie, I had the tool that I used to use on my Flash drive, and I erased the files just a few days ago. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name. It basically ran a script on each person's machine and placed an "output" file on a shared folder. If I remember correctly, the tool would compile the list of software and hardware installed on each machine and presented it in an easy-to-reference fashion. Not that this information does you a lot of good, considering I can't remember the name... :blink
     
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    What do you use just now mate?
     
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  7. Boycie
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    Boycie Senior Beer Tester

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    BM - sounds good - hope you remember!

    Sparks - We use Kaseya

    thanks!
     
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  8. gosh1976

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    sounds like astra32 maybe. everest and speccy also come in handy.
     
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  9. JonnyMX

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    Rohypnol works for me with most 'customers'.

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  10. BosonMichael
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    Astra32 looks awfully familiar... that was probably it. It's been 4 years since I used it.
     
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