What's New in Insights

We're making it easier to surface the information you need with new Right Click Tools Insights features in your Recast Management Server. 

Recently delivered Right Click Tools Insights features:

Additional Inventory Classes: Draw device information from an expanded set of hardware, software, and operating system inventory classes. For the full list of attributes collected for each class, see Inventory Class Data for Agent-Based Devices. Minimum Recast Software Version: 5.12.2609.1102.

New Add/Remove Programs (ARP) inventory class:

  • RI_InstalledSoftware - Inventories all installed software on the device

New default inventory classes:

  • Win32_BIOS
  • Win32_BitLockerEncryptionDetails
  • Win32_ComputerSystem
  • Win32_EncryptableVolume
  • Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration
  • Win32_OperatingSystem
  • Win32_SystemEnclosure
  • Win32_Tpm

Choose the Inventory Information You Collect: See the Default inventory policy, with a complete list of classes and attributes, in your Recast Management Server/Recast Cloud. You can also enable or disable Insights inventory classes, adjusting the information collected to suit your needs. To know more, see View and Edit Collected Inventory Classes. Minimum Recast Software Version: 5.12.2609.1102.

See Primary User Information & Customize Your View of Warranty Data: On the Warranty Information > Devices tab, you can now view a computer's primary Intune user. Previously, you'd have to correlate the primary user from within Intune. You can also resize, add, and remove columns to customize your view. Minimum Recast Software Version: 5.12.2609.1102.

User Inventory Data Cleanup: Our new inventory schedule automatically cleans up old user inventory data for the following EI classes: EI_UserARP, EI_UserDrive, EI_UserODBC, EI_UserPrinter. Previously, inventory class cleanup in Insights relied on an existing ConfigMgr inventory tool, which wasn't as thorough. Minimum Recast Software Version: 5.12.2608.1403

Rate Limiting for Device Inventory Requests: We've implemented rate limiting on the HTTP connections needed to request inventory information for Agent-based devices. Rate limiting concurrent connections helps ensure that the SQL server isn't overloaded when many Agents attempt to send inventory data at the same time. Minimum Recast Software Version: 5.12.2607.2401

See Additional Details on the Warranty Information Dashboard: We've added more data and new functionality on the Warranty Information dashboard: View the Device Age and Remaining Coverage, filter the Remaining Coverage according to whether it is active, expiring soon, or expired, and drill down into data from the Device by Status widget and the Warranty Expiration Timeline. Minimum Recast Software Version: 5.11.2602.1808

Inventory Class Data for All Your Agent-Based Devices: In this initial iteration, you can view device inventory data from more than a dozen existing Insights inventory classes. For details, see View Inventory Class Data for Agent-Based Devices. Minimum Recast Software Version: 5.11.2512.1807

New Warranty Information Dashboard: A new Insights dashboard in your Recast Management Server visualizes your device warranty landscape. This version includes a warranty expiration timeline as well as charts that display your devices according to warranty status and manufacturer. For a walkthrough of the data available in this initial iteration, see View the Warranty Information Dashboard. Minimum Recast Software Version: 5.11.2509.1603