Alternatives to LMI
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Must Have:
Abliitiy to have lots of IT staff,
Connect on LAN without agent install
Connect via one time download without admin rights and ability to gain admin rights as a service etc with that (using your account)
Unattended access with agent (preferablity that can be invoked/installed via connect on LAN/One time without any need to do anything on the desktop itself)Is there anything else that actually meets all of this? ScreenConnect does not.
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Screenconnnect meets all your requirements expect connect on LAN without agent install
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VNC meets alot of those, but of isn't exactly agentless. However the agent is very light weight and easy to deploy since it is a MSI.
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We like SC quite a lot. but we use agents.
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@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to LMI:
We like SC quite a lot. but we use agents.
There is a lot of benefits to having a agent installed.
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Yeah, I'm all about agents for a lot of things.
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Is there something very wrong with Offer Remote Assistance? Ive used it in the past with great success. I think it does all you want, long as who/what youre connecting to is on your domain/forest.
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@momurda said in Alternatives to LMI:
Is there something very wrong with Offer Remote Assistance? Ive used it in the past with great success. I think it does all you want, long as who/what youre connecting to is on your domain/forest.
It doesn't allow unattended or connect on local network. The user has to start that
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@IRJ said in Alternatives to LMI:
VNC meets alot of those, but of isn't exactly agentless. However the agent is very light weight and easy to deploy since it is a MSI.
VNC doesn't work over interwebs without port forwarding or proxy. It also doesn't allow technicians to share a session
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@aaronstuder said in Alternatives to LMI:
Screenconnnect meets all your requirements expect connect on LAN without agent install
Which is a requirement we need. Screen connect has already been tested and thrown out.
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@Jason
Not sure what you mean ;connect on local network'. It certainly does that. You can also initiate the sessions if you set it up to do so. Unattended might be a problem, since user has to hit Yes to your prompts. But if they are there waiting for your help i dont see that as a problem. If you need to get in when they arent there, you could use Remote Desktop.
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@Jason said in Alternatives to LMI:
@IRJ said in Alternatives to LMI:
VNC meets alot of those, but of isn't exactly agentless. However the agent is very light weight and easy to deploy since it is a MSI.
VNC doesn't work over interwebs without port forwarding or proxy. It also doesn't allow technicians to share a session
You can make multiple connections to a PC or server and techs can share a session. I didn't read anything about interwebs in your first post so I assumed it was a local network.
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@Jason said in Alternatives to LMI:
@aaronstuder said in Alternatives to LMI:
Screenconnnect meets all your requirements expect connect on LAN without agent install
Which is a requirement we need. Screen connect has already been tested and thrown out.
Does anything meet your agentless, no end user requirement? Not that I know of.
The closest I can think of is computers with Direct Access setup ( done beforehand like agent), and remote control using RDP in the RDS.
Direct Access probably solves the firewall issue since it's the pc making a VPN connection back to your domain... But I don't know if you can RDS over DA or not? -
@momurda said in Alternatives to LMI:
@Jason
Not sure what you mean ;connect on local network'. It certainly does that. You can also initiate the sessions if you set it up to do so. Unattended might be a problem, since user has to hit Yes to your prompts. But if they are there waiting for your help i dont see that as a problem. If you need to get in when they arent there, you could use Remote Desktopn.
Other solutions are going to cost lots of money.We aren't interested in loosing features just to hope to another solution. We have and pay for LMI now and use all the features it has.
Connect to lan is a problem because it does not allow you to connect without user interaction as it does in LMI. RDP is not a shadow or session of what's happening locally. So it will not work either.
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An agentless connection means using something that's already on the machine... Pretty sure that limits you to RDS.
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@Dashrender said in Alternatives to LMI:
An agentless connection means using something that's already on the machine... Pretty sure that limits you to RDS.
No it doesnt
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I asked for a solution that meets these requirements to see if there is one, I don't want a bunch of random use this but it doesn't really do what you need.. Either it meets the requirements or doesn't. Simple as that.
That's the problem with this forum.
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You already have a solution, LMI right? so what are you looking for then, something cheaper, something free? If lmi does all you want it to do why did you make the post? If you dont give a shit what others think why did you make the post.
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@Jason said in Alternatives to LMI:
@Dashrender said in Alternatives to LMI:
An agentless connection means using something that's already on the machine... Pretty sure that limits you to RDS.
No it doesnt
Can you provide an agentless no end user solution? I'm all ears. LMI definitely cant. If the agent isn't there LMI cant connect without the user there.
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@Dashrender said in Alternatives to LMI:
@Jason said in Alternatives to LMI:
@Dashrender said in Alternatives to LMI:
An agentless connection means using something that's already on the machine... Pretty sure that limits you to RDS.
No it doesnt
Can you provide an agentless no end user solution? I'm all ears. LMI definitely cant. If the agent isn't there LMI cant connect without the user there.
I think he means agentless on the client end, not the server end. So LMI is agentless since it's done through a browser.
Edit: never mind
