Deployment day is where good policies usually die — one silent installer pushed to every machine, including the wrong ones. Roll it out like you announced it: openly, from a list, a few PCs at a time.
The video shows the technical side of getting an agent onto LAN PCs. This guide is the order of operations around that install — the part that decides whether deployment day builds trust or burns it. Three rules carry the whole rollout: enrol from the asset register, never from the network scan; keep the agent visible on the PC; pilot before you push. A monitoring agent that hides itself is a confession about your intentions, whatever the brochure calls the feature.
An auto-discovered install grabs everything that answers on the LAN — including the director's personal laptop, a visitor's machine on the office Wi-Fi, and the one PC that belongs to a client. Work from your asset register instead: company tag numbers, one by one. It is slower by an hour and safer by a mile. Any machine you cannot prove is company-owned does not get the agent.
Install the agent the way you install antivirus: present in the program list, an icon the user can see, a name that says what it is. Turn off any stealth or hidden mode the tool offers — its existence in the feature list is not a recommendation. Visibility is not just ethics; staff who can see the agent also self-correct, which is most of the benefit monitoring ever produces.
Run the agent on IT's own PCs and one cooperative team for a week. You will find the noisy reports, the false alarms and the settings you misread — on machines whose users will tell you, not resent you. Then roll out team by team, announcing each wave. For work-from-home staff the rule is identical: the agent belongs on the company laptop they were issued, under the same policy they signed. What you cannot do is reach into home networks or personal machines — your visibility honestly ends at the company device, and off-hours data on it stays out of scope.
The full walkthrough — setting up employee PC monitoring on the office LAN, live and step by step.
▶ Watch Full VideoThe PC is company property issued under a known policy, so this is an employment conversation, not a technical fight: explain the policy, what is collected, and the process. Handle refusals through management and HR routes, not by forcing a secret install.
Yes — shared machines are often where monitoring is most justified. Keep per-user login discipline on them so reports attach to a person fairly; a shared login makes every report meaningless and every accusation unfair.
A properly configured agent is light, but the pilot week is exactly how you prove that on your hardware before claiming it office-wide. If the pilot shows real slowdowns, fix the configuration rather than pushing through.