Network authority inventory

According to Microsoft, midsized businesses typically employ from 25 to 500 connected PCs and maintain a small staff of IT generalists. The mid-market uses the largest percentage of legacy software—especially Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, and Novell NetWare 4.x—and as a result has to deal with many user support problems, server crashes and reboots, and the like. Consequently, the IT staff spends most of its time reacting to problems with the existing infrastructure and little time planning for or the network authority inventory that might ease those problems. These businesses don't need the hand-holding provided by SBS 2003, yet don't have the depth of technical expertise found in most enterprises