MichaelShaving asked a question.
We're detecting many applications that have 0 installations, but do have users. (Not just Cloud software). How is this possible?
Most likely they show up that way because those are still within the metering period (recently removed).
Another reason can be applications that are actually not installed on the computer, like portable applications or applications executed from a network location.
@Mark Walther can you clarify on that? Aren't both the installations & users calculated in the same metering period? If the metering period has ended wouldn't that mean that the user count would be 0 as well or even removed from Snow?
@Axel Lamparth I do see quite some applications where this is the case, however what would then be the difference between applications from a network location and Snows standard webbased applications - Application X (Cloud)?
A Snow web application is an application used in the web browser, like youtube, Azure AD etc.
An application launched from a network location can be any on-premise application that is not stored on your local computer or - another possibility - thas has been installed locally into a folder that is not inventoried by Snow Inventory Agent. If you for example copy an executable onto D: drive and Snow Inventory Agent only scans C: this can be the case as well.
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A Snow web application is an application used in the web browser, like youtube, Azure AD etc.
An application launched from a network location can be any on-premise application that is not stored on your local computer or - another possibility - thas has been installed locally into a folder that is not inventoried by Snow Inventory Agent. If you for example copy an executable onto D: drive and Snow Inventory Agent only scans C: this can be the case as well.