Specops Inventory from Special Operations Software USA Inc. is a Group Policy-based inventory solution that reports all information from Active Directory and user infrastructure and provides data for virtually all Windows-based IT asset tracking.

Specops Inventory is designed to provide full control of all software licenses and other IT assets. The product notifies IT admins when an organization faces software licensing compliance issues or when maintenance contracts for mission-critical desktops applications are about to expire.

The product includes the ability to collect and report on hardware, OS information, services and drivers, software, security information, registry data, user profiles and more.

Other features include the following:

  • IT asset tracking reports. Administrators can browse, administer and summarize information from all desktops and servers in a Web-based interface. With this feature, it's possible to drag and drop to create new reports or, alternatively, to use the built-in reports.

  • License compliance software. The License Manager features is designed to provide full IT asset tracking over an organization's software license compliance.
  • Software and hardware inventories. This feature provides single computer or user reports directly from the Active Directory Users and Computers interface.
  • System requirements: Windows 2000 Server SP4 or later, .NET V2, MSDE or SQL Server 2000 or later, MMC/MSMQ and Internet Information Services (IIS) on servers only.

    Pricing: Specops Inventory starts at $8 per system.


    This was first published in February 2009

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