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System Center Products

System Center products and solutions can help you capture and aggregate knowledge about your infrastructure, policies, processes, and best practices so your IT staff can build manageable systems and automate operations in order to reduce costs, improve application availability, and enhance service delivery.

Core Products

System Center Configuration Manager

System Center Configuration Manager R2 
System Center Configuration Manager* comprehensively assesses, deploys, and updates servers, client computers, and devices—across physical, virtual, distributed, and mobile environments. Optimized for Windows and extensible, it is the best choice for gaining enhanced insight into and control over IT systems.

System Center Operations Manager

System Center Operations Manager 
System Center Operations Manager* is the end-to-end service-management product that is the best choice for Windows because it works seamlessly with Microsoft software and applications, helping organizations increase efficiency while enabling greater control of the IT environment.

System Center Data Protection Manager

System Center Data Protection Manager 
System Center Data Protection Manager* is the new standard for Windows backup and recovery, delivering continuous data protection for Microsoft application and file servers using seamlessly integrated disk and tape media. System Center Data Protection Manager enables rapid and reliable recovery through advanced technology for organizations of all sizes.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 provides a management solution for today’s virtualized data center, affording centralized management of the IT infrastructure, increased server utilization capability, and dynamic resource optimization across multiple virtualization and physical platforms.

Microsoft System Center Essentials

System Center Essentials
System Center Essentials is specifically designed for midsize businesses (up to 500 client computers and 30 servers). System Center Essentials provides a unified management product that enables IT pros in midsize organizations to proactively manage their IT environment with increased efficiency.

Other System Center Products

System Center Capacity Planner

System Center Capacity Planner 
System Center Capacity Planner is a pre-deployment capacity-planning and post-deployment change-analysis solution for Microsoft Server offerings, including Exchange Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and Office SharePoint Server 2007 (and soon, System Center Operations Manager). It provides the tools and guidance to deploy servers efficiently while planning for the future by allowing for “what-if“ analyses.

System Center Mobile Device Manager

System Center Mobile Device Manager 
System Center Mobile Device Manager is a flexible, end-to-end product for single-point access of LOB applications and corporate data on Windows Mobile 6.1 devices. System Center Mobile Device Manager provides secure access to sensitive corporate data on Windows Mobile 6.1 devices in a seamless manner, resulting in a positive user experience.

System Center Service Manager

System Center Service Manager (Beta)  
A new Microsoft System Center product, System Center Service Manager is being designed to meet the needs of the modern IT help desk. By providing powerful new capabilities for incident, problem, asset, and change management, System Center Service Manager will support organizations as they seek to improve the service they provide to their users.

Related Products

Microsoft SoftGrid

Microsoft Application Virtualization  
Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 (formerly SoftGrid Application Virtualization) allows the flexibility to control virtual application interaction. Administrators wanting to consolidate virtual environments and enable faster, easier administration can use the product’s Dynamic Suite Composition, which sequences and manages packages for middleware applications separately from the main application.

Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack

Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 
Windows Vista Enterprise, combined with technologies such as the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) and flexible licensing options, provides powerful tools that help you optimize your organization's desktop infrastructure while enabling increased flexibility, centralizing security, and streamlining deployment, helping to provide greater productivity to users.

Microsoft Systems Management Server

Systems Management Server 
Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 R2 builds upon the base of the SMS 2003 SP2 foundation to provide a comprehensive solution for change and configuration management for the Microsoft platform. SMS 2003 R2 enables organizations to quickly and cost-effectively provide relevant software and updates to users from Microsoft and non-Microsoft vendors.

* System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise includes Enterprise Server Management Licenses which provides a complete set of server management capabilities for application and platform management that span physical and virtual environments as well as rights to manage an unlimited number of operating system environments on a single server.