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System Center Essentials 2007 & System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Installation Guide

Brief Description
This guide provides information on installing System Center Essentials 2007 (Essentials 2007) and System Center Virtual Machine Manager Workgroup Edition (VMM 2007) in the same environment.

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File Name:Essentials2007_VMM2007_Installation_Final.doc
Version:1
Date Published:4/23/2008
Language:English
Download Size:97 KB
Estimated Download Time: 1 min 56K

Overview

This guide provides information on installing System Center Essentials 2007 (Essentials 2007) and System Center Virtual Machine Manager Workgroup Edition (VMM 2007) in the same environment.

It focuses on the system requirements, setup overview and best practices. Please refer to the installation guides of each product for more information.
Essentials 2007 provides end-to-end monitoring for the mid-market IT environment, along with software and update deployment. VMM 2007 provides centralized administration of your virtual infrastructure and rapid provisioning of new virtual machines.

In summary, the installation requires installing the Essentials 2007 components on a single computer, and VMM 2007 components on another computer. Each product also uses separate database instances.

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System Requirements

  • Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows XP
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Instructions

1. Click the Download button in the upper right-hand corner of this page to start the download.
1. Do one of the following:
To start the installation immediately, click Open or Run this program from its current location.
To copy the download to your computer for installation at a later time, click Save or Save this program to disk.

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