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At my university, there was an inventory system that required the location to be specifically recorded when initially installed plus if the machine was ever moved. Since we had a lot of subnets, it had to be reconfigured anyway and that required their contacting the central IT organization and updating the registration information. At this point, it seems you either have to rely on end user feedback or makes the rounds physically to find them within your offices. If some are in employees' homes, that will involve additional effort. Even with all efforts, tracking every machine on your network in detail remains a struggle in many organizations!

Indeed so - I think we will have to go down the aggressive route as time is running out, what's worrying is the amount of users who work very closely with IT such as medical physics here don't even know they must upgrade by December 13th and they even have plans to move to W10 in March next year according to their own timescales, this place lacks true leadership, my old boss would have migrated everyone by now..

Yeah, we did a full scan with some Microsoft utility (I think it might have been SCCM, but I was not directly involved in that process) and found even Windows 7 and 95 systems on-line. It took a good 6 months to bring things under control. Ultimately, it boiled down to only allowing registered systes onto the network.

Yep we've done the same just now and we have lansweeper around 1200 machines left , of which 300 odd we know the locations ...