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Check out the FAQ HERE!

Is SMS/SCCM continually discovering and troubleshooting inactive systems from Active Directory? How about disabled systems?
Do your patch compliance reports indicate less compliance due to a large percentage of inactive systems?
Is your organization paying for licenses they aren’t using because of inactive systems being counted towards your Software Licensing Agreements?
Does it take hours or days for SMS/SCCM to update based on changes to systems in Active Directory?
Do you need to deploy software to systems immediately after they have changed OU’s or been added to a new Active Directory group?
Are your site servers flooded with discovery records? Does it take all night or all weekend to complete an Active Directory discovery cycle?
Do you need to discover systems from an untrusted domain or forest?

One Customer's comparison of ESD 2007 performance versus SCCM 2007.

Discovery Method	DDRs Created	Time Running	Memory Load
AD Sys Disc - 1st and concurrent runs	20,000	4 ½ hours	Unknown
ESD - 1st Run	18,832	29 minutes	250mb
ESD - 10 minutes later	2	90 seconds	178mb
ESD – 1 hour later	5	3 minutes	189mb
ESD – 10 hours later	661	7 minutes	193mb

Enhanced System Discovery 2007

Provides a number of capabilities to improve your level of integration and synchronization with Active Directory.

Filter on the age of the system to prevent inactive Active Directory systems from becoming inactive SMS/SCCM systems.
Discover only systems that have changed in Active Directory since the last discovery cycle to significantly improve the performance and efficiency of the discovery cycle, enabling more frequent discovery (some customers can discover systems every 15 minutes).
Limit your discovery to only systems assigned to a list of sites, reducing duplicate records across multiple primary sites.
Efficient and speedy Discovery of System’s Groups and only when identified groups have been modified with new systems or by removing systems.

A dramatic improvement for a reasonable price

Detailed Feature Comparison of ESD 2007, SMS 2003 and SCCM 2007

Feature	ESD 2007	SMS	SCCM 2007
Ability to extend discovery with additional AD Attributes	Yes	No	Yes
Ability to filter on the when changed attribute	Yes	No	No
Delta Discovery – Only Discover AD Objects that have changed since the last discovery	Yes	No	No
Update Collection Membership Automatically when AD Group membership changes. New in R2!	Yes	No	No
Discover only systems assigned to specific sites	Yes	No	No
Run the discovery agent on a workstation reducing SMS/SCCM Server load	Yes	No	No