SMS has been dating Active Directory for awhile
Don’t you think it’s time to tie the knot?
- 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?
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
Download and evaluate ESD 2007 here
* Plus all MMS 2008 Attendees will receive a 10% off discount until June.
- ESD 2007 Standard Edition
– License up to 10 domains. 1 year of email support is included.
Price with MMS discount - $674.95 (not available via reseller).
- ESD 2007 Enterprise Edition
– License an unlimited number of domains in your organization and receive 2 years of e-mail support.
Price with MMS discount – 2249.00 (available for purchase via reseller).
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 |
| 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 |
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