Essentials 2007 can alert you to performance problems or when updates are required for your IT environment.

Receive instant notification of IT problems via Email, pager, or SMS text message so you can quickly troubleshoot and keep your IT environment up and running.

Solve problems using integrated troubleshooting and resolution for clients, servers and IT services running in your IT environment. You get definitive information right in the console that will help you prevent and solve problems with your IT resources. In-line links are also provided to click and “fix it now.”

Essentials 2007 provides a simple and powerful way to manually or automatically deploy updates for Microsoft operating systems, hardware updates, drivers, and software applications, both Microsoft and non-Microsoft, to help ensure the security of your network.

Essentials 2007 automatically checks for new updates available and applicable to your IT environment and provides notification and access reports on update deployment progress to help you quickly troubleshoot any update deployment issues.

Upon installation, Essentials 2007 allows you to immediately assess, configure and patch your IT environment without interrupting your users or network service.

Essentials 2007 automates the collection of software and hardware inventory so you can review assets to help achieve optimum configuration and compliance.