My IT company has been using LogMeIn for many years but due to their lack of innovation and escalating costs, we decided to move – for more details, see. We researched options and happened upon ‘BeAnywhere’, a platform that not only offered more additional functionality than LogMein ‘out of the box’ but also – perhaps more importantly – seemed to be driven keen innovators with a responsive development team determined to push the platform further. We’re now a month or so in to our migration, with 90% of our remote support now done via BeAnywhere. It is, I thought, time for a review. Here’s a simple run down of BeAnywhere, I’ll do another update at three, six and twelve months.

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Pricing The pricing for BeAnywhere is comparable with pricing for LogMeIn Central alone. Essentially this means that using LogMeIn Central for client management but with the free and restricted client on machines was costing the same (or more) than BeAnywhere but (and its a big but) BeAnywhere comes with a big box of features as standard, features that you have to pay extra for with LogMeIn (see below). Unlike LogMeIn, BeAnywhere allows a user to have only one concurrent login and licensing is based on the number of concurrent technician’s you can have logged in so as your staff increases, this will be a factor but for us, even starting off with a license for every technician, it was still cheaper than LogMeIn. Features As mentioned under ‘Pricing’, BeAnywhere has some great features fitted as standard, including (but not limited to): File Transfer When I am logged in to a customers computer, I love being able to copy files to and from their machine without disturbing them or taking control of their screen and mouse. A great test case for this is if you need to make changes to a users HOST file for a hard-coded DNS entry, you can just copy the file to your machine, make the changes then copy it back.

Again, this is a standard feature of the software. The file transfer window works like most FTP interfaces you’ve used with clear panels for the local and remote folders, and a detailed panel showing a queue of the file transfers.

Additional Administrative Information Without disturbing the user working on a remote system, its also possible to review all manner of data from the PC you are remotely accessing, including (but not limited to): Services You can review all of the services running on a target system. You have access to all the options you would if you had access the services via the native services snap-in such as stop, start and restart. You can also change the start up type of services (manual, automatic, delayed start). Processes If you have a user complaining of poor performance on their computer, you can view their systems running processes in real time just as if you were at their PC with Task Manager open. While that may not seem like a big deal, it means that the user can go through the motions of what they are normally doing when their system becomes sluggish, with support staff watching the processes to see what is eating up RAM and/or processor time. Microsoft remote desktop for mac dow….

Just as with Task Manager, its also possible to terminate processes. Event Viewer The final great tool in the arsenal of a support technician, you can also view events from within BeAnywhere too. Again, this provides the benefit of not tying up the computer while you are researching a problem. The event viewer doesn’t have all the filtering options of the native windows event viewer but for most purposes its more than adequate.

Hi Bob This is a good review. My Logmein Account expires in 2 weeks. I am remote based most of the time so I wonbdered if I was to go over to be anyware First I deal with Macs so would I be able to install the relevant BA software remotely if I use Logmnein whilst its still valid? Second, An EG. If an example. My client emails me to say they have a problem on their Mac.

Normally I would LMI Control POanel and log in free will. CAn the same be done on BAnywhere? Third: Do they, BA, Log you reports of Time and what machine etc like Logmein does on its Filter report viewer area? Any help as I am fretting and I have 15-19 Clients on mine.

12 of them have been free and I paid a 10 User subscription which was #275 now renew is £700 special discount deal and thats only for 10 Users I think. Their Add was a bit vague, see here You have 12 complimentary LogMeIn Pro computer subscriptions that will expire in 14 days. At that time, any computer that is not part of an active LogMeIn Pro subscription will appear as disabled within your account. If you would like to continue accessing these computers, you will need to upgrade to a larger package. Currently you have access to 22 computers.

After, your account subscription will be renewed at list price for 10 computers. To ensure uninterrupted service to all of the computers within your account, as well as gain access to a discounted rate for your upgrade, please click on the button below. To stay in your current bundle, no additional action is required.” You sound in the know so would like the heads up less techy though on this Be Anywhere. Thanks for anytghing in advance.

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Hi Maria, I’ve answered your queries by number: 1) Yes you absolutely can install the software remotely – we have done 90% of our migration to BeAnywhere that way. 2) Yep you can login without the customer having to confirm your session (they can be away from the machine) provided you have an account to authorize on the target machine 3) Not sure what you mean in terms of time?

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BeAnywhere tells you things like, when the machine was last online, when you last accessed it remotely, etc. We’ve been using BeAnywhere for many months now and the built-in features that you pay a premium for with LogMeIn are fantastic (command line interface, file transfer, deep OS information) Hope this helps!