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    • scottalanmillerS
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      Yeah, I'm all about agents for a lot of things.

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      • momurdaM
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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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          Jason Banned @momurda
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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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            Jason Banned @IRJ
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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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              Jason Banned @Alex Sage
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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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              • momurdaM
                momurda @Jason
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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.
                Other solutions are going to cost lots of money.

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                  IRJ @Jason
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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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                    Dashrender @Jason
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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?

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                      Jason Banned @momurda
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                      @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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                      • DashrenderD
                        Dashrender
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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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                          Jason Banned @Dashrender
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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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                            Jason Banned
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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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                            • momurdaM
                              momurda
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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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                                Dashrender @Jason
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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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                                  stacksofplates @Dashrender
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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

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                                  • stacksofplatesS
                                    stacksofplates
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                                    This might work? http://www.cloudmanagementsuite.com/remote-control/

                                    Looks like it's agentless on the server side too somehow.

                                    Our remote control solution uses agentless technology, which loads on demand and dissolves when complete. Perfect when you don’t want bloated programs running in the background using precious resources.

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                                      Jason Banned @Dashrender
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                                      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.

                                      You are incorrect LMI can indeed connect without an installed agent. It uses the user/pass you give it to run a a temporary exe.

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                                        Alex Sage @Jason
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                                        @Jason that's the same thing ScreenConnect does!

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                                          Alex Sage
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                                          LMI uses an agent, so why can you use the SC agent on the local network?

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                                            Jason Banned @Alex Sage
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                                            @aaronstuder said in Alternatives to LMI:

                                            @Jason that's the same thing ScreenConnect does!

                                            No it doesn't, screen connect requires the agent to be deployed. You can not just enter a host name on the network and connect without a preinstalled agent

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