Free Help desk Software

While Bloglines was actually still up today I learned about this great Free Help Desk Software over at TechShepherds.com. Usually with free software I expect it to work on a few computers with no support and after that you end up paying, this is good up to 100 computers and has six months free support! Scott clearly says that he had not used this software but had looked at the documentation. Well these next couple of weeks are slow so I thought I play around with it today and am pretty impressed. Here’s what Scott highlighted and I’ll followup from there:

Are you having difficulty finding the time to manage it all?

  • Installation and Implementation
  • Help Desk Administration
  • Asset Control and Management
  • Remote Control

While I’ve only installed and implemented on a few machines our entire network and I’ve found it easily and quickly completed. The Help Desk interface is easily customized with drop downs and even allows the addition of your church/company logo. Cool thing with the helpdesk is the easily included screenshot that is supplied with the ticket, the interface that attaches the user and their computer automaticcaly to the service request. The part that caught my attention was the asset control/management which worked like a charm. After installing on the computers I went back as admin and ran some of the predefined reports. These can export out as excel, rtf, and pdf that I can remember and included the computer type, OS info, software loaded, memory, how connected to the system, etc, POWERFUL! You can also set it up to on a scheduled basis poll your network so you can any software/hardware updates. And on top of that it easily sets-up Remote Control access for those computers that you have loaded. All this and I only looked at very briefly, looking forward to digging deeper. Oh yeah, did I mention all this is FREE!

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