Management

Microsoft's management products and solutions help deliver a high quality of service and a low cost of ownership in operating and managing the Microsoft platform. This is achieved by implementing and automating proven industry best practices, deploying critical patches and new software, and monitoring services for critical applications. Use the information below to find out more.

Management Servers

•	Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 – the event and performance management solution for Windows®
•	Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 SP1 – the change and configuration solution for Windows
•	Microsoft® Application Center 2000 – the deployment and management tool for scaling out web applications

The Benefits of Systems Management Solutions

•	Critical Patch Deployment More efficiently deploy and manage high volumes of patches, fixes and updates for your Windows infrastructure, while saving costs and time. With integrated support for tracking and deploying all security patches for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office, Systems Management Server 2003 enables businesses to respond to outside threats much more quickly.
•	New Application Installation Deployment costs for new applications can be lowered significantly with a solution that increases the efficiency of rolling out new services. Systems Management Server 2003 delivers software distribution and asset management through comprehensive inventory analysis, software distribution, and software usage tracking and reporting.
•	Service Monitoring and Control Comprehensive event management, proactive monitoring and alerting, reporting and trend analysis make it easier to ensure maximum possible uptime for all your Windows Servers and applications. Through the extensive product support knowledge base included in the application in the form of management packs, Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM 2005) reduces the day-to-day support costs associated with running applications and services in a Windows-based IT infrastructure.
•	Improve Website Performance Ensuring that websites and increasingly-complex web-based applications are available – and running at peak performance – is a growing challenge. Microsoft Application Center 2000 simplifies the management of your web assets, enabling these applications to achieve on-demand scalability and mission-critical availability, while also reducing operational complexity and costs. Application Center 2000 makes managing groups of servers as simple as managing a single machine.

The Dynamic Systems Initiative

Microsoft's Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) will span the next three to five years. We will gradually add updates to products, building in the capability that will help you manage your increasingly-complex IT infrastructure automatically. Microsoft has already incorporated DSI standards into Windows Server 2003. Support for the DSI architecture will be included in future releases of Microsoft server applications and management solutions.

Dynamic Systems Initiative overview

Tying Things Together

To help you turn our products into a custom solution for your business, we continuously develop “solution accelerators”, free for you to use. E.g. the solution for vulnerability management shares best practices in organisations for managing updates (with SMS or WSUS), and might include sample code, additional tools, templates and documents for you to use in your business.

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