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A SQL Server 2005 upgrade can be a major task and SQL Sentry Event Manager can greatly reduce the effort required, especially when it comes to the setup of alerting.

While the notification system has been improved in SQL Server 2005, you still cannot manage notifications globally across all servers nor do you have the robust conditions and actions provided through Event Manager. SQL Server 2005's new SMTP-based "Database Mail" addresses the reliability issues of SQL Mail, but Database Mail requires roughly the same level of configuration as MAPI & SQL Mail. The user is required to touch every server and every job on every server to configure it. With Event Manager you can configure notifications across all SQL Servers at one time and from one place.

If you install Event Manager today before you upgrade to SQL Server 2005, you will save yourself the considerable time and effort of configuring, activating, testing, and maintaining Database Mail on each and every SQL Server 2005 instance.

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