

£2k is a month's wages of a technician, at least, and they could sit and type that data in inside a month, let alone copy/paste or come up with an automated method. I'm reminded of and there's a point at which money-saves-time but, honestly, even creating/syncing 1500 users is a one-off job executed once a year? Spend half a day writing / stealing a script to do it and keep a copy if you change schools. I'm pretty sure over 15 years, I've never bought anything software "just for IT" ( ICT as a subject, yes, of course, IT deployed out to every user, sure.

Visio / Project is okay, I suppose, but only for one user seems a waste of buying a special tool just for that, and more than one user seems too expensive. Helpdesk/Asset/Inventory? GLPI or a thousand free equivalents. And en-route it populates our access control and other systems that can't auto-sync and which no specialist software would support without bespoke coding anyway. £2k to do a one-time user creation of a list of users seems inherently overzealous. Report for you and you will need to make sure that you validate the result / understand the limitations of the results.Sorry to play devil's advocate: Am I the only one to not use any of this expensive pay-for stuff for IT-only things?ĪD user creation? Done by Powershell. As such I would recommend hiring someone to write this Sure this report could be written but it would take a lot of time to write the SQL query and to valid the results. Now assuming that we could answered this question using today info. Who cares that any SU where apply during thoseĥ days? Were you in the middle of patching all system or had you completed by that time? What is import is what was the compliancy rate during that time frame? (again you will not be able to answer this as such a late stage, you need to recorded that dataĪt the time) And what are you doing about trying to decrease the non-compliancy rates. IMO your audit has no idea was to what they asking for. This report is impossible to create as any status messages that would have been returned would have long ago deleted out of the db. Yes, I know this is an old post, I’m just trying to clean them up.
