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 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

Session Summary

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