Enter the fully qualified domain name of your server such as and your cloud relay key that you got earlier. Here’s where we tell the agent your Lansweeper server name and Cloud Relay key. Note that the number will probably newer than what’s in this screen shot. Launch MSI Wrapper after the install and click Next on this screen.ĭownload the Lansweeper agent from their website, select that file, and click in the output field to give that a name.Ĭlick Create New next to upgrade code and make note of that code for potential use in the future.Ĭhange the version number to match the agent version. Then on the same computer, install MSI Wrapper. Install the Lansweeper agent on a test machine or VM, using the exe manually. The free version should let us do everything we need for this, but they do have a paid version available with more features if you need them. For software that I’m less familiar with, I like to upload the installer to Virus Total to check it, then just to be safe, I’ll install it in Windows Sandbox or a virtual machine (VM). You will need your Cloud Relay authentication key later.ĭownload the free version of MSI Wrapper from their website. Create the MSIīefore you start, check the requirements of the Lansweeper agent and setup the Cloud Relay as detailed in this article. The problem is that Lansweeper provides an exe installer instead of an MSI package which is required by Group Policy. It’s less effort than manual install, will run the next time a computer turns on unlike a Lansweeper deployment, and is arguably less effort than writing a script. In our case, we prefer to use Active Directory Group Policy to deploy software. You can manually run the installer on each machine, you could deploy it using the included Lansweeper deployment package, or you could write a script to run the exe silently. There are a few ways you can deploy the agent. It also helps if computers are turned off during your normal scan time or if a laptop is connected to your guest network and unable to talk directly to your local Lansweeper server due to a network security ACL or Firewall. However, installing the Lansweeper Agent allows you to scan laptops that are not on your local network, doesn’t require a highly privileged domain account to be added to Lansweeper, and can usually bypass the Windows firewall on a client. Out of the box, Lansweeper can scan Windows computers without installing the agent program on the computer.

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