Controlling installation of software from the cloud

[giveitfish]

Interested to hear of peoples experiences and recommendations please?

I manage an estate of > 200 Windows 7 Pro and Windows 10 Pro desktops and laptops spread over 15 sites. A lot of the remote sites have just a handful of computers, no server and are not VPN'd to the head office - they just have a BT broadband link to access corporate web-based software.

I'd like to audit the software installed on each PC remotely and also limit installations via a whitelist. As the PCs are not in a single domain I'm looking for something cloud based to do the central management. The easier and cheaper the better, with "easy" taking precedence over "cheap" if required.

What's the best approach?

Thanks in advance!

[giveitfish]

Cheers guys. It's the whitelisting in particular I'm interested, would like to go for Cyber Essentials certification for the company. Want to control what is installed on each PC.

I've been reading up on Carbon Black today: https://www.carbonblack.com/products/cb-protection...

[giveitfish]

Hadn't realised you could use InTune to mange PCs so that's interesting too.

[giveitfish]

It's not the only thing, but application control is the bit I'm interested in right now. All the sites are in scope unfortunately.

[giveitfish]

Thanks for the genuinely useful help, it's appreciated.

The condescending and critical responses based on huge assumptions, not so much.

[giveitfish]

Sorry I was a bit snippy, but you're just reinforcing my point.

The whole point of my original question was to get a feel for how others are doing exactly that - controlling what software is installed - in an environment which does not look like a large corporate setup.

I'm sure everything is very pretty looking down from your ivory tower, but in my current organisation there will be no tower until I've first laid some foundations. At this stage that won't involve a corporate WAN or VDI but if I can find a decenct endpoint management and control tool that will be a start.

Edited by giveitfish on Sunday 28th May 21:54