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LogMeIn Rescue

Score8.7 out of 10

475 Reviews and Ratings

What is LogMeIn Rescue?

LogMeIn Rescue is a remote support solution for PCs, Macs, and mobile devices. LogMeIn Rescue is designed to help IT teams to offer fast technical support and ensure a secure remote support session for both the IT professional and the end user. From small teams of IT helpdesk technicians to enterprise-level organizations, LogMeIn Rescue aims to offer the flexibility needed to remotely support employees and customers, as well as enable remote work.

Categories & Use Cases

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Technician Group Configuration - Where users can create technician groups and subgroups with granular agent permissions
the console where repetitive tasks automated by running pre written scripts in the background, without disturbing end users
a smartphone camera being used to troubleshoot offline computers and hardware
remote control of Macs, PCs and Linux/Android
reboot sessions and automation
the central dashboard where common mobile device issues on iPhone and Android can be identified and addressed without the need to navigate the end user's device.
how sessions can be started directly from Service Now or in Rescue, to automatically create Service Now tickets with a free out of the box integration
LogMeIn Rescue, embedded into a website or app. There are over 10 different connection methods that allow end users to get support

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Top Performing Features

  • Instant message

    Ability for administrator to communicate via instant message with remote user.

    Category average: 7.3

  • Screen sharing

    Allows participants to share their computer screens with others in the meeting, enabling collaborative work and presentations.

    Category average: 9.3

  • Over-the-Internet remote session

    Establish secure remote connection with computers outside the network firewall.

    Category average: 9.4

Areas for Improvement

  • Centralized management dashboard

    Dashboard to facilitate management of users, permissions, licenses etc.

    Category average: 7.5

  • Access to sleeping/powered-off computers

    Remote access and troubleshooting of out-of-band computers.

    Category average: 5.5

  • Remote management of servers & workstations

    Server reboot, start/stop services & processes, clear logs, manage disks, shares, etc. without having to initiate remote control.

    Category average: 8.4

Rescue has become a valued part of our team allowing us succeed without issue related downtime

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

With a 100% remote team, someone cannot just stop by their office and show them how to fix an issue. Rescue has made it so that it is almost as good as having someone present to show how to best solve a problem. We no longer have to go through a check list of possible issues - "Is the computer plugged in..." We have tried a number of solutions that sounded good but just ended up costing time and money; if the team member cannot solve the problem we end up sending them a new machine which causes downtime and a great deal of expense for overnighting a new machine and getting the team member up and running on their new machine.

Pros

  • Computer issue triage
  • Security by working seamlessly with our VPN
  • Ease of use for even the least computer savvy team member

Cons

  • Major maker software integration
  • fully remote access
  • the ability for a third party to fully review interactions

Return on Investment

  • substantial decrease in cost per employee for computer work stations
  • Very infrequently need to overnight and replace CPUs
  • Because of Rescue we have been able to upgrade all team members to allow everyone to utilize Rescue

Usability

Alternatives Considered

NinjaOne, ThreatLocker and N-able N-sight RMM

Other Software Used

Adobe Acrobat, Adobe PhotoShop, Navisite Productivity and Collaboration (Microsoft Office 365 and MDM), Google Chrome

LogMeIn Rescue is a great service with some minor issues

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use LogMeIn Rescue to log into client’s computers and guide them when they are having issues locating things. View errors on their machines and fix items in the software or on their computers when they have issues that need to be rectified. LogMeIn Rescue helps us to do these things pretty easily.

Pros

  • Simple to take videos of issues
  • Easy to get to the task manager
  • Helping clients get to it works most of the time
  • Works well for businesses

Cons

  • By default it would be good to have clipboard sync enabled - disabled instead. So difficult when copying from my computer doesn’t work because of an agent sharing the connection and it will not let us copy information into the client’s computer.
  • Copying into excel is difficult. It will deselect things that you have highlighted when copying.
  • Would be nice to make the hierarchy easier when sharing files between clients and us.
  • Logging into certain environments can be challenging and require customers to be fairly techy to be able to understand how to get logged into client’s computers.
  • Sometimes login is pretty unstable on certain internet connections even though they are fine when they use team viewer with their IT.

Return on Investment

  • This has helped to provide us with a functional way to help clients use the software we provide.
  • LogMeIn Rescue helps to transfer sensitive data to clients machines directly instead of emailing the information.
  • Helps us document issues and record videos of things happening that are hard to prove to development
  • Sometimes LogMeIn Rescue closes out or will not allow you to login to a computer but works on another day without an issue. This is difficult for clients to understand and causes friction with relationships

Usability

Alternatives Considered

TeamViewer and AnyDesk

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Snagit, CoPilot, Notepad++

Rescue your users with LogMeIn

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tool for users to remotely use their devices located at offices

Pros

  • easy method for remotely connecting to clients
  • good control of user access management
  • simply and easy to use interface

Cons

  • performance over low bandwidth could be improved
  • more frequent updates to address bugs and security
  • support for other platforms like linux

Return on Investment

  • other free or lower cost products are catching up to it which lowers its ROI especially for smaller companies
  • setup and manageability requires higher skilled individuals which raises overall support cost

Usability

Alternatives Considered

TeamViewer

LMI Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use LogMeIn daily at work to get connected to clients computers to perform data conversion. This is a tool that is needed by myself and the rest of our team if not the rest of the company to perform our work duties. Business problems normally occur when a client is using a Mac instead of a normal PC.

Pros

  • Works well when client is using a PC
  • Works well when a client has used LogMeIn the past
  • Works well when client isn't trying to get connected with a Mac

Cons

  • Sometime when client isn't logged in as admin, unable to get connection
  • When client doesn't have password for reboot and we need to stay connected overnight
  • Sometimes the program crashes when there are multiple connections

Return on Investment

  • Positive because when it works everything runs well
  • I've mainly used LogMeIn and I'm comfortable with the software
  • Probably the most popular software to connect with clients

Usability

Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

use - ICT Service desk for me and multiple other use cases within different teams.

- used to remote into devices across the state to provide ICT assistance

- product support, technical support to over 600 sites across the state.

-problems are remote assistance and navigation on different product suites being used by the dept.

Pros

  • connection through web
  • script running
  • logs collection

Cons

  • connectivity issues
  • connection drop

Return on Investment

  • lately had negative impact on the service desk operations since the connection drops on web based remote connection.

Usability