Post on 07-Nov-2014
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System Center Essentials 2007 Technical Overview
• Addressing Mid-Market Challenges
• Securing Your Enterprise
• Asset Visibility and Inventory
What Will We Cover?
Level 300
• Knowledge of Microsoft Operations
Manager (MOM)
• Familiarity with Windows Server Update
Services (WSUS)
Helpful Experience
• Challenges and Solutions
• Taking Control of Your Environment
• Maintaining Control
Agenda
Mid-Market Challenges
“Keeping OS and applications updated with the latest patches is time consuming.”
“Email is critical for my company, server downtime is bad for business”
“Software installation for desktops should be quick and easy – it’s not!”
“End-user troubleshooting is manual for us –telephone, email, and remote desktop in Windows XP”
“Our hardware and software inventory is in spreadsheets, it’s hard to pull it all together”
Proactive Management
UnifiedExperience
IncreasedEfficiency
System Center Essentials 2007
• Accelerates Troubleshooting and Problem Resolution
• Automates System Updates and Data Collection
• Single Solution
• Single Console
• Simple to Use
• Simple to Deploy and Maintain
Addressing IT Challenges
Maintain and Ensure SecurityUpdate management for Windows and applications as well as third-party updates
Keep Network Up and RunningMonitoring and knowledge for servers, desktops, network devices and hardware
Resolve End-User IssuesDiagnostics tasks, reporting and end-user software deployment
Inventory ManagementHardware and software asset inventory and reporting
Do It Yourselfer (DIY)
IT Generalist
IT Specialist
Helping IT Generalists
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Manages server as secondary responsibility
Manages server as primary shared responsibility
1-2 full time IT Generalists
5-10 full time IT Generalists with some area of focus
Specialists per workload
100
• Server• Memory: 1 GB / 2 GB• HD: 11.5 GB / 20 GB• CPU: 1.8 GHz / 2.8 GHz
• Console-only installation• Memory: 512 MB / 1 GB• HD space: 512 MB• CPU: 1.0 GHz / 2.8 GB
• Managed Computers• Refer to Minimum OS Requirements
Essentials Management Server• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1• Microsoft Windows SBS 2003 SP1• Microsoft Windows Server 2008• Active Directory• SQL Server 2005 SP1• Internet Information Services 6.0• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0• Can be Virtualized
Managed Computers• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP4• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP4• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1• Microsoft Windows SBS 2003 SP1• Microsoft Windows Vista• Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2• Windows XP Tablet PC Edition SP2• Windows Server 2003 Web Edition SP1• Microsoft Virtual PC 2004• Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
Hard disk space
Performance
Requirements and Planning
Minimum Software Requirements
Minimum Hardware Requirements
Planning for Capacity
Demonstration Environment
Internal Network192.168.16.1/20
SEA-DC-01.Contoso.comDomain Controller
System Center Essentials 2007IIS Server
192.168.16.1
SEA-WRK-001.Contoso.comWorkstation
192.168.16.10
demonstrationInstalling and Configuring System Center Essentials 2007
Review Pre-Installation TasksPerform Configuration Tasks
• Challenges and Solutions
• Taking Control of Your Environment
• Maintaining Control
Agenda
• 30+ Inventory attributes collected
• 22-hour cycle
• Inventory reports accessed through the console
• Administrators
• Monitor health
• Diagnose problems
• Evaluate need for software or updates
• Evaluate need for hardware upgrades
Managing IT Assets
demonstrationConfiguring and Collecting Inventory
Collect Inventory Information Review Inventory Information View Software Reports View Hardware Reports
Getting Secure and Staying Secure
Built on WSUS 3.0
demonstrationGetting Secure with Update Management
Configure Update Management Explore Update Management Create New Update Verify Updates with Reporting
• Challenges and Solutions
• Taking Control of Your Environment
• Maintaining Control
Agenda
Monitoring your key network devicesSwitches, routers, printers, wireless access points
Complete monitoring Knowledge and in-line tasks for servers, clients, and network devices
Same MPs as Operations Manager Customized for mid-market environments
Monitoring Capabilities
demonstrationMonitoring and Troubleshooting
Review Monitor Capabilities Manage Alert Information Explore Reporting Features
• Essentials 2007 addresses mid-market
challenges
• Provides a more unified management
experience
• Enables proactive management
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