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November 2021

How to take your annual inventory?

The annual inventory is a critical step in the life of a company and involves a significant amount of work. This task, which all employees look forward to… consists of counting the company’s inventory once a year (before the end of the fiscal year). It allows you to know the real quantities of stocks in your company to see if there are differences with the quantities indicated in your software.

Top title alert! Ivanti recognized by Frost & Sullivan's 2021 Best Practices Award as Asia-Pacific Secure Remote Access Company of the Year

We’re thrilled to announce that Frost & Sullivan has awarded the 2021 Asia-Pacific Company of the Year Award for secure remote access to Pulse Secure (acquired by Ivanti). In determining awards, Frost & Sullivan “applies a rigorous analytical process” that includes “detailed evaluation of best practices criteria.”

Alloy Self-Service Assistant for Microsoft Teams

In recent years self-service has become an imperative for many businesses. Offering comprehensive self-service options like a customer knowledge base, chat, and community forums plays a huge role in the self-service success. And, maybe even more critically important is unifying those different support channels, so that requests are captured, processed, and responded to within a single system.

You've Achieved GDPR Compliance-Now What?

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Most of us remember the months and weeks leading up to the deadline. We did whatever needed to be done to achieve compliance. Now it seems like a distant memory. And the pressure is mostly off. But in other ways, it was just the beginning. As you continue creating your day-to-day compliance strategy, you might find that the tactics that got you to the finish line were more short-term solutions that won’t necessarily stand long-term.

MSP Live Chat: Microsoft 365 Management and Security in 2022

What big moves can we expect from Microsoft in 2022? And how are savvy MSPs planning ahead? Price hikes. Name changes. New offerings. Oh my. Keeping up with Microsoft is a full-time job these days. Luckily, we've got experts dropping by the Live Chat to keep you in the loop. Join us, CyberDrain's Kelvin Tegelaar, and others as we dive into the latest big announcements from Microsoft and talk modern approaches to M365 multi-tenant management and security.

A New Era of Software Asset Management

Do you remember when all applications were on-premises applications? Do you remember quarterly BSA (The Software Alliance) audits and press releases that identified companies for being out of compliance? Do you remember when big software manufactures were in the news because they were auditing school districts for software compliance? Have you read about any of this recently? Probably not.

I've Been Everywhere, and the Risks it Can Bring to your Workplace

The song “I’ve Been Everywhere” was written by an Australian country singer, Geoff Mack, back in 1959, where he sang about all the towns he visited across Australia. It became famous in the US in 1962 by the country singer Hank Snow where the song hit number one. He of course did make some changes as the names of the towns were now all based in the US. And since then, many versions have been created. You will by now be wondering what has this to do with an Ivanti blog?

What type of barcode should I choose?

To have a well-structured inventory, it is necessary to identify the information concerning the physical assets that the company owns. It is not always obvious how to manage asset tagging. To do this, it is important to assign a unique identifier to each product. The simplest and least expensive method is necessarily the use of barcodes. But it is still necessary to choose the type of barcode that best suits our needs.

MSP Live Chat: Creating a Strategic Growth Plan for 2022

Have big ambitions for 2022? What about a formalized plan for getting your MSP to where you want it to go? For many MSPs, the past two years have been a heady mix of a) unprecedented challenges; and b) furious growth. What's separated the fastest growing shops from the rest? The majority have put themselves in the position to be more proactive and strategic than the competition. To help you do the same, we teamed up with Gradient MSP founder and channel veteran Colin Knox to talk strategic planning frameworks and share how to set your sights on the right targets and grow your MSP in 2022.

Remote Work is Here to Stay. Learn How Ivanti Can Help Take the Pain Out of It.

Today many enterprise businesses suffer from security attacks but don’t understand how to protect their applications from being exposed. The most common attacks today are simple to execute such as a SQL injection, network Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), Cross Side Scripting (XSS) and more. These are common attacks that can be mitigated by setting up a security framework to protect enterprise assets.

Fall 2021 Update for Alloy Discovery Enterprise

We are excited to introduce the immediate availability of our fall 2021 update for Alloy Discovery Enterprise, a comprehensive network discovery and inventory solution. The update improves performance of audit operations, especially in complex network environments, and delivers a friendlier upgrade experience. It includes the latest Alloy Audit Tools with support for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 and resolves issues reported in previous versions.

Alloy Audit Tools 2021.1

A new cumulative update for Alloy Audit Tools is here! The update adds detection of Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022, among other improvements and bug fixes. The new version also features the added support for both 32- (old) and 64-bit (new) versions of Alloy products, because we have recently upgraded Alloy Navigator and Alloy Discovery to the 64-bit architecture. For a full list of changes and update instructions, please check out the Release Notes.