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Is there any schedule for upcomming new releases or bug fix releases of the TNI product ?

It would be a great help if TNI could open a URL which is entered in the comment field. Such would then start your broswer and show the info in that URL. If the URL points to a SharePoint server, then one could very easily store the licenses , plus metadata, in that Sharepoint server and make it visible. More advanced functions could for example be the following: Assume TNI had previously found 10 instances of Office2007 on the scanned net, but now it shows 11 such licenses are used. It could then start a workflow in SharePoint which alerts the SAM admin to aquire another license to get the license counts matching again. Many options possible..... But as said, for a start it would help to be able to enter a URL in the comment field, and klick on it from within TNI.

Thanks for the quick answer. Any possibility to be more specific on "future versions" and "next versions" ? ;) Regarding the use of URL's: When using TNI in software accounting mode, there is a comment field per instance of software found in the nodes in the inventory. It would be very nice to be able to populate this comment field with an URL , which for instance points to a sharepoint site where I have my sofware license certificates stored. For example, TNI could tell me I am using 10 instances of Office 2003. I would then like to match that usage against a location which shows the licenses to cover this usage. This would be a rudimentary SAM (Software Asset Management) but would be a good start. The TNI product is excellent for the inventory part but falls short a bit on Software Asset Management, which really is "connecting" owned licenses to used licenses. I hope you get my drift........I'm happy to exchange some further ideas on this subject.

Hi, I'm using the 1.6.0 build 1434 verion, and it's great but some features could and should be added, such as: - BIOS custom fields (in Dell hardware specifically) - ability to do LDAP queries to Active Directory - ability to dump data in MSDE or SQL ? - use URL's to point to e.g. sharepoint site where licenses are kept. Any idea of new features, bug fixes and release scheule ? Many thanks -