Microsoft has provided a comprehensive solution for addressing and resolving business change and configuration needs with its Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003. It enables a business to reduce software costs and stay compliant by understanding the installed application base and its usage.

SMS Features and Benefits

Hardware Inventory- SMS 2003 provides improved client- side performance during inventory scans and a richer set of inventory data, including BIOS and chassis enclosure data.

Flexible Granular Inventory Discovery - Although SMS 2003 allows enterprises to track almost all the software assets on their systems, typically there are a core set of applications and files that are of particular importance and interest. SMS 2003 enables enterprises to focus on the information they need by providing the capability to implement intelligent inventory searches through the use of functionality such as wildcards, environment variables and file properties. Systems resource overhead can also be reduced by enabling the skipping of compressed and encrypted files.

Integrated Customisable Web Reporting - To ensure that the rich inventory and usage tracking information is easily accessible and relevant to the business, SMS 2003 includes a robust, highly flexible and fully extensible Web reporting engine, with more than 120 pre-built reports available out of the box. Reports can be customized or created, and an import/export capability is available for porting these to other SMS 2003 environments.

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