
vScope 3.33: Smarter Filters, a Fresh Tables Experience & 200+ New Content Items
Discover the all-new Filters, redesigned Tables view, and powerful new content for Microsoft 365, Active Directory, and SQL databases, here is the latest update of vScope

Keep Track of Your Microsoft 365 User Accounts
It just got easier to stay on top of your Microsoft 365 users. With new tables and reports in vScope, you now get a ready-made overview of accounts, permissions, and licenses – without the hassle of manual data collection.


How to Optimize Microsoft Licenses to Save Both Money and Time
Keeping track of Microsoft licenses is one of the biggest challenges for many IT departments. With vScope’s new pre-packaged content, you gain better visibility and can easily identify hidden costs, inactive accounts, and overlapping licenses.


Optimize Your Database Environment: Pre-Built Content for Performance and Savings
Databases are the backbone of nearly every modern organization. From customer data to transactions and internal systems, your business relies on their performance and availability. In this post, we explore new content in vScope that helps you simplify and succeed in database management.


New Content for Active Directory
Stay on top of your Active Directory with new content in vScope. Get a clear overview of security, compliance, and efficiency – without manual work. In this blog post, we walk you through what’s new and how you can uncover misconfigurations in your AD.


How to rightsize databases with vScope
Rightsizing your IT environment is a powerful way to optimize costs. Preparing for database resource migration offers a great chance to phase out unused elements and save on operational and licensing budgets. In this article, we will learn how to investigate database usage, identify unused resources, and significantly lower costs for both migration and future operations.


vScope 3.32
Explore all the updates and improvements in vScope 3.32, including new Microsoft 365 management, Jira integration, AWS asset support, and smarter lifecycle management with warranty collection.

Full Control Over Users and Issues in Jira with vScope
We're excited to announce the initial integration with Atlassian Jira, the leading platform for project and issue tracking. This enhancement will provide you with an improved overview of users, activity, and issues directly within vScope, simplifying the process of tracking license utilization, identifying opportunities for cost efficiency, and connecting issues to relevant services.


Say Goodbye to Manual Warranty Management for Lifecycle Handling
For many IT departments, managing warranties is a time-consuming and often frustrating task. Manually tracking expiration dates, keeping tabs on various agreements, and quickly finding relevant information when needed can feel like a never-ending job. What if there was a way to automate this? With the latest update to vScope, we're introducing warranty data inventory – a new feature designed to do just that!


Securing Your Windows Data Center: Best Practices for IT Discovery Read Accounts
Gaining comprehensive visibility into your IT environment is crucial for accurate asset inventory, documentation, and effective security audits. However, granting overly broad access and permissions for user accounts can introduce significant security vulnerabilities, making the careful management of user account access a critical concern.


Tackling Application Chaos: Why Comprehensive Windows Application Inventory Matters
Managing software and applications across an IT environment is often more complicated than it seems. IT teams regularly face challenges such as uncertainty about which applications are actually in use, outdated inventories, or inefficient manual tracking processes. The larger and more dynamic your IT environment, the harder it becomes to keep track of software, leading to inefficiencies, higher costs, and potential security vulnerabilities.


Getting Started with IT Governance in vScope
IT governance can be challenging when managing complex IT assets, documentation, and compliance. vScope simplifies this process with vScope Governance, a features that deliver complete visibility and streamlined collaboration across your network. In this post I will share three tips to get started and get the most out of IT governance in vScope.


vScope 3.31
History & Changes have been introduced in Tracker, making it easier to track and understand how assets evolve over time. You can now select from recent Tracker runs, and vScope will automatically highlight changes from the previous Tracker run (i.e. when Tracker cases were last evaluated).


New vScope Content Update: Stay Up-to-Date with Enhanced IT Documentation
With our latest update, we have added more bundled content to help you excel your IT documentation standards. With more layouts and tables, you can be sure that your documentation has never been better.

Section Separators for a more customized Dashboard experience
Elevate your dashboard with new widgets for organizing content into sections! vScope's latest feature, Section Dividers, allows you to effortlessly group and categorize widgets by use case, priority, or asset type for a streamlined, intuitive view.


How Updated Documentation and TPM Insights Simplify Your Windows 11 Migration
Migrating to Windows 11 is a critical upgrade for many IT departments, providing enhanced security, performance, and user experience. However, to fully leverage these improvements, you’ll need to ensure that your laptops meet the system requirements for Windows 11, especially when it comes to the Trusted Platform Module (TPM).


vScope 3.30
IT Service Templates, improved Tracker functionality, updates in PowerShell inventory and various bug fixes. Here is vScope 3.30.


Tracker’s got a new look
Start off your week with a fresh new look of vScope's popular alerting tool – Tracker. Setting up cases to keep track of changes, anomalies, and common configuration errors in your IT environment is now easier (...and better looking...) than ever.


Improve IT Service Management: How IT inventory supports you working in a service desk
Explore how vScope's IT inventory streamlines the daily work of Service Desk professionals, supporting troubleshooting, license verification, documentation, and proactive incident management.

vScope 3.29
New Powershell updat, including support for custom registry keys, allowing for a more customized vScope and asset inventory discovery.


Introducing PowerShell: Custom inventory of Registry Keys
Learn how vScope's PowerShell integration lets you collect custom registry keys, control access with Just Enough Administration, and build more flexible IT inventories.

The Ultimate Guide to IT Asset Inventory: Best Practices and Tools
In the ever-evolving world of technology, managing and maintaining IT assets is crucial for the smooth functioning of any organization. From hardware devices and software licenses to network equipment and digital resources, IT asset inventory plays a significant role in ensuring optimal performance and cost-effective operations.


What is CMDB: A comprehensive guide to configuration management database
The Configuration Management Database (CMDB) is a crucial component of IT Service Management (ITSM). It serves as a central repository for storing and managing information about the various configuration items (CIs) within an organization's IT infrastructure. In this comprehensive guide, we will delve into the basics of CMDB, its key components, its role in ITSM, the process of implementing it, and the best practices for managing it effectively.


Everything you need to know about ITSM
How can IT organizations better align their operations to support the main business objectives? How can technology facilitate more efficient workflows in the company as a whole and how can IT staff continuously improve its operations to deliver better IT services? These questions are some of the reasons why companies are investing in, implementing, and developing ITSM processes.


3 steps to reduce your IT costs
As IT is becoming an integral part of organizations the costs of IT are increasing. Many businesses are therefore looking for ways to reduce their IT costs. Here we present 3 tips to reduce your IT costs!


3 common challenges with ITAM
IT asset management (ITAM) is an incredibly efficient way to keep track of your IT assets — if it is executed correctly. In this article, we explore three common challenges associated with ITAM and how to solve them.


Everything you need to know about IT Asset Management
You’ve spent a lot of time and money on technology for your organization, but are you getting the most out of your IT investments? Collecting inventory data and tracking contract statuses throughout the lifecycle of an asset is critical. Capturing your asset data in one location enables better IT asset management and tracking of hardware, software, licenses, ticket history, and even non-IT assets.


5 conversations every successful IT team needs to have
Teamwork. This topic seems to stir up emotions in most of us and some are more positive about it than others. Nonetheless, the majority of us encounter teamwork at one point or another during the course of our careers. So let’s make the best of it! It is important to reflect upon how you can achieve the greatest results while also ensuring a healthy work environment. Having open and sincere communication with your team can help you overcome some struggles that might emerge. Without further ado, let’s unfold five conversations every successful team needs to have!


Active Directory Best Practices – 10 Ways to Improve Your Active Directory
Active Directories are inevitable for IT-technicians and they often come with a set of tedious tasks that need to be done sooner or later. After speaking to several technicians and experiencing multiple Active Directories at first hand, I realized that a lot of AD's don't follow the Active Directory best practices and are a mess. But in some cases it can definitely be worth it! An overly complex and outdated AD can tie up a lot of time from your technicians. So in this article, I decided to list the Active Directory best practices and go over 10 ways to improve an Active Directory, and hopefully help IT-departments get more efficient.


Best Practices when Deploying an Active Directory
Setting up a perfect Active Directory (AD) that will stand the test of time is not as easy as it sounds. Not only do you have to think about the current state of the organization but you also need to plan for future changes. To help you get started I'll be going through the basics about setting up an Active Directory.


Microsoft SQL Licensing - The Basics
Making sure that your Microsoft SQL servers are properly licensed can be a major headache for most companies and operation managers. This guide will give you a brief overview of the different options available in regards to Microsoft SQL licensing for servers before you approach a Microsoft partner. Let's start off by getting acquainted with the two licensing models that Microsoft offers.


What is a Microsoft True-Up
There are many good reasons to enter an Enterprise Agreement (EA) with Microsoft, the biggest is probably the flexibility when deploying new hardware and software. However, the EA is a two way street and once a year it's your turn to hold up your end of the bargain, with a Microsoft True-up.
