VNC Scan Enterprise Console 2009.8.18

Remotely control and manage all workstations on your network with VNCScan Enterprise. Install the application, create and scan a new group which includes computers within a certain range of IPs, remotely deploy/remove VNC Remote Control on your computers, search computers for users' login, deploy standard settings for all of your VNC servers and connect to a computer of choice.

Creating a connection with a remote computer is now an easy task due to the 'VNC deployment Wizard'. This wizard will guide you through all the necessary steps needed for installing the application on a remote computer. In case you cannot connect to the remote machine after installation, make sure the firewalls are properly configured and run regedit.exe, go to the registry key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa" and alter the value for "forceguest" to 0 (zero). You need to do the above mentioned operation is because Windows is forcing remote connections to have guest access. Once the problem solved, you can remotely manage your computers.

You can create customized groups of computers with custom settings for each and every one of them. You can only view the activity, fully control a machine, view computer properties, override default computer settings and many more.

Pluses: The program can be run in stealth mode, so that the monitored users will never know what is going on. There are also available lots of intranet communication tools, a file sharing utility

Options include stealth mode viewing, push scripts to remote computers, send Wake on LAN message, send NET message, ping computer. You can edit scheduled tasks, view system information of remote workstations, view processes, maintenance logs and who is logged in.
A very useful feature is the 'Backup' utility, which will protect your program from unwanted changes of settings.

Drawbacks / flaws:

In conclusion: A quite complex, feature rich program; in all, a very good monitoring tool.

version reviewed: 2006.10.3.6