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New in vScope: DigiCert Integration for Certificate Inventory
You can now inventory certificates from DigiCert directly in vScope — giving you a complete overview of the SSL/TLS certificates in your environment. Set up proactive alerts, enrich your documentation with tags from DigiCert, or link certificates to your service documentation for greater detail.
New in vScope: Find AI Software Across Your IT Environment
AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft 365 Copilot are spreading fast across organizations – often without IT having full visibility. The latest update to vScope includes ready-made tables that instantly show which machines and users have AI software installed or licensed.
Webinar Recap: How to Work with Modern IT Governance in vScope
We recently hosted a webinar on modern IT governance with vScope Governance. Here are the key takeaways: on why IT environments become complex, how a governance model works in practice, and how your teams can move from scattered spreadsheets to a living asset register.
Introducing Split Total Cost: Distribute Shared Costs Fairly Across Billing Accounts
Already know the total cost you want to distribute? With Split Total Cost, vScope handles the split for you — so your cost reports finally reflect reality.
From Intune to vScope: Why Endpoint Management Alone Is Not Enough
Intune gives you strong endpoint control. vScope turns that data into shared operational context for operations, security, compliance, and finance.
Tracker evolves: from case list to compliance overview
From a list of issues to a clear compliance overview. The latest Tracker update introduces a more structured way to monitor, prioritize, and improve your IT environment. Here's the latest update about vScope Tracker!
Introducing vScope Studio: Discovery Without Limits
vScope Studio lets you connect new data sources and document more asset types in your asset repository. A great add-on to your asset discovery if you want to take your asset repository to the next level.
Why IT inventory initiatives often fail
IT inventory and discovery promise control, security, and cost clarity—yet many projects stall. Here's why they falter without the right platform, and what reliable discovery should look like.
Take Control of Adobe Licenses with Cost Reports in Minutes
Stop spending time on manual cost reporting. vScope now includes expanded support in its built-in price list templates for Adobe licenses, making it easier to create clear, reliable cost reports in both SEK and EUR.
Microsoft 365 Pricing Changes 2026: What It Means for Your Budget
Microsoft is updating pricing and packaging for Microsoft 365 in 2026. Here’s what the currency adjustments and July price increases mean – and how CIOs and M365 admins should respond.
New datasource: Proxmox
vScope now discovers Proxmox VE for hosts, VMs, containers, networks, and capacity. This will help you bring full visibility into hosts, VMs, containers, capacity and other Proxmox assets.
HP Warranty: Deeper lifecycle visibility
Fetch and sync warranty data from HP, directly to vScope for improved planning and control of your assets' life cycle status. In this post I will briefly go through the latest feature in vScope, and how this strengthen the value of your asset repository.
IT Services Become Governance – Put Your Assets in Full Business Context
We have renamed IT Services (Service Mapping) to Governance. However, this update is not only about renaming; it expands the feature from 'IT service-only' modeling to supporting any business context – including applications, vendors, ownership, policies, and more. Let's go through what this means for you.
Create a Great Cost Report: Three Ways to Price Your IT Environment
Do you and your organization lack clear routines for communicating the value and costs of IT delivery? You’re not alone. Getting started doesn’t have to be difficult. Here are three practical ways to price IT and create a cost report that makes IT costs clear to the business.
Standardize IT Billing Faster with Built-In Price List Templates
Reduce manual pricing work and get more accurate IT billing in place faster using reusable, best-practice price list templates. Here is the latest feature of vScope Billing
Introducing Network Port Mapping in vScope: Finally See What’s Connected – and Where
One of the most requested features is now here. With Network Port Mapping for SNMP, IT teams can instantly see how devices are connected across the network, no more remoting into switches, outdated documentation, or guesswork. This update helps you troubleshoot faster, improve documentation, and strengthen overall network security.
New in vScope: A More Personal Experience with Interest Profiles
We’re introducing Interest Profiles in vScope, a new way to make vScope more relevant and helpful for every user. Get a home screen and library experience tailored to your interests, responsibilities, and daily work.
Effective Configuration Management Requires Transparency Across All Systems
In modern IT environments, the gap between reported and actual configuration is bigger than most people realize. In this article, I explain why accurate inventory requires collecting data about each asset from multiple sources – not just one.
New in vScope: Connect Your Asset Inventory to Power BI
vScope can now share its continuously updated IT insights directly with Power BI. Connect the asset inventory to your dashboards to create shared decision-making data for IT, finance, and leadership. This article walks through the benefits of using vScope as a Power BI data source.
How Lifecycle Cost Analysis Helps You Make Smarter IT Decisions
IT teams are under constant pressure to deliver more with less. But without understanding the true cost of every server, license, or laptop, even the most well-planned budgets can spiral out of control.
How Microsoft's New Licensing Model Impacts You - and How to Prepare with vScope
Starting November 2025, Microsoft will remove volume discounts in Enterprise Agreement, MPSA, and OSPA. In this article, we explain what the change means for your organization, and how vScope helps you gain full visibility and control of licenses and costs across your environment.
Last Day for Windows 10 - Are Your Clients Ready?
As of October 15, 2025, Microsoft officially ends support for Windows 10. In this article, we explore what that means, why Microsoft is making this change, and how you can use vScope’s inventory and prebuilt insights to stay ahead.
Stronger Security in vScope: Support for SAML SSO and Kerberos
In the latest update of vScope, we introduce support for SAML 2.0-based Single Sign-On (SSO) and Kerberos authentication. These new features are an important step in giving you more options to strengthen the security of your IT inventory and access to your asset register. In this post, we walk through the updates and how to make the most of them.
New in vScope: Support for Intune App Assignments
With support for Intune App Assignments, you gain full control of application deployments in Microsoft Intune. vScope’s asset inventory provides instant visibility, clear reports, and alerts on changes - for stronger security, simplified compliance, and a complete overview.
Warranty Management in Practice: Checklist, Pitfalls, and How to Automate with vScope
Learn how to manage device warranties the right way. We walk through a step-by-step checklist for manual warranty tracking and how to automate follow-ups, reports, and alerts with vScope Discovery.
News in vScope: 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 update, 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.
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.