What is mobility and how does Systems Management Server 2003 help?
A. As corporate workforces evolve from cubicle dwellers to road warriors, this increased degree of mobility introduces additional challenges for managing computers and devices. By using the rich manageability infrastructure in the Windows operating system, industry standard Internet technologies, such as HTTP, and the technology and best practices from Windows Update—used today to implement hundreds of millions of software updates per month—Systems Management Server 2003 has extended its enterprise scalable asset management and software distribution solution to the mobile client. Software can be distributed to machines over slow link connections without interrupting the core business functions and as users move from location to location, Systems Management Server 2003 determines their physical location and enables the download of critical software from the closest source. For more information, see the Mobility page.!
