All IT departments need solutions that support performance and availability monitoring, software updates and deployment, data storage and recovery, IT reporting, and problem, capacity, and operations management. The System Center family encompasses leading IT management solutions that accommodate all of these needs.

The System Center family of products comprises of:

System Center Essentials
Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 is a proactive, unified management solution that enables IT professionals in your organisation to more efficiently secure, update, monitor, and troubleshoot your IT environments. Essentials 2007 provides a unified solution to help optimise a broad set of tasks across your entire IT environment and a single console from which you can view and manage all of your servers, clients, hardware, software, and IT services. In addition, Essentials 2007 helps you proactively monitor your IT environment, simplify complex management tasks, and automate system updates and data collection for your IT environment. The end result is a more efficient, secure, and up-to-date IT environment.

System Center Operations Manager
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 (formerly known as Microsoft Operations Manager), affords you a comprehensive, overall view of the health of your IT environment. Track thousands of event and performance monitors across hundreds of operating systems and applications. In addition, get best-of-breed, end-to-end service management for the Windows platform and access to more than 50 management packs for various Microsoft software applications. Finally, automate routine, redundant tasks to increase efficiency and enable greater control of your IT environment.

System Center Configuration Manager
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (formerly known as Microsoft System Management Server) drives IT productivity and efficiency by reducing manual tasks and enabling you to focus on high-value projects, maximise hardware and software investments, and empower end-user productivity with the right software at the right time. Configuration Manager contributes to a more effective IT department by enabling secure and scalable operating system and application deployment and desired configuration management, enhancing system security, and providing comprehensive asset management of servers, desktops, and mobile devices.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 is a stand-alone management application for a virtual data center. Virtual Machine Manager increases use of your physical server, allows you to centrally and virtually manage your infrastructure, and lets both administrators and end users rapidly provision new virtual machines.