Better asset management on the way?

Looks like we might get much better asset management in FCP some time in the future...
http://www.proximitygroup.com/
Good news, good news....

Hi Dan,
From personal experience, my shop has never had success maintaining images with the ZAM client pre-installed. Invariably, someone will customize the image without approval and will replicate the Client GUID embedded in the registry across multiple workstations.
If your workstations are not SMBIOS 2.3.2 compliant (or higher) and you have not embedded the system serial numbers into your computers, you will have created a heck of a lot more work for yourself than you want.
I recommend against that plan, however if you are a small shop and have excellent control of your images and validation process for your images, I believe it can be done.

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