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Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

Overview

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 is the solution to comprehensively assess, deploy, and update your servers, clients, and devices—across physical, virtual, distributed, and mobile environments. Optimized for Windows and extensible beyond, it is the best choice for gaining enhanced insight into, and control over, your IT systems.

Built on key Microsoft technologies, such as Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), Windows Server Active Directory, and the Windows architecture, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 enhances your insight into, and control over, your IT infrastructure. With Configuration Manager 2007, organizations can ensure that IT systems comply with desired configuration states to improve systems’ availability, security, and performance network-wide. System Center Configuration Manager 2007 includes:

  • Comprehensive deploying and updating

  • Enhanced IT infrastructure insight and control

  • Optimization for Windows and extensible beyond

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Find out how System Center Configuration Manager 2007 helps you manage your IT infrastructure.

 

System Center Configuration Manager provides system management tools for key IT areas:

  • Configuration Manager 2007 gives organizations better control over their IT infrastructure and assets through asset intelligence technologies that provide IT administrators continuous visibility into what hardware and software assets they have, who is using them, and where they are.

  • Configuration Manager 2007 Software Update Management simplifies the complex task of delivering and managing updates to IT systems across the enterprise. IT administrators can deliver updates of Microsoft products, third-party applications, custom in-house line-of-business applications, hardware drivers, and system BIOS to a variety of devices—including desktops, laptops, servers, and mobile devices.

  • With Configuration Manager 2007 Desired Configuration Management, organizations can ensure that IT systems comply with desired configuration states to improve systems availability, security, and performance network-wide.

  • Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Software Distribution simplifies the complex task of distributing applications and updates to desktops, servers, laptops, and mobile devices across enterprise networks.

  • Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Operating System Deployment is a highly flexible, automated solution that allows IT administrators to fully deploy and configure servers and desktops from any previous state, including bare-metal deployments.