Security & Management : SCE

Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 Evaluation Edition

daniel — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:10:00 GMT

Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 is a proactive and unified management solution that enables IT professionals in midsize organizations to more efficiently secure, update, monitor and troubleshoot their IT environments.
Essentials 2007 provides:
• Proactive monitoring, troubleshooting and asset tracking to keep your IT environment secure and up-to-date
• A unified solution with a single console for managing your servers, clients, hardware, software, and IT services
• Efficient execution of complex management tasks like troubleshooting end user issues, monitoring, and server and client software deployment

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Partner Solution for Remote IT Managed Services Beta

daniel — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:39:00 GMT

Microsoft is building a new managed services solution to enable partners to create a services-based business by delivering remote IT managed services to small and midsized organizations. Supported by System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Operations Manager 2007) and System Center Essentials 2007 (SCE 2007) technology, this combined solution creates a powerful platform with which you can provide remote software update management, monitoring and troubleshooting of customer environments over a secure internet connection. In addition, you will be able to create customized reports to show your customers the value of the services you provide.

System Center Essentials Beta 2 - now available on Connect

daniel — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:25:00 GMT

To download the software and documentation, please go to http://connect.microsoft.com and sign in using the passport account you used originally to register for the SCE beta site.

System Center Essentials 2007! Cool!

daniel — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:33:00 GMT

I read the Product Overview and Managed Services Overview of SCE 2007. I feel that SCE 2007 is an EXCELLENT product for Service Providers!

With System Center Operation Manager 2007, They become a total remote monitoring, managing and patching solution for Midsized Businesses.

Concept:

Remote Management without VPN.
SCOM 2007 located at Service Provider, SCE 2007 located at customer site.
Operators at Service Provider are able to monitor the customer's system health, alerts, View the S/W and H/W Inventory, Approve the Patches for Deployment, Troubleshooting REMOTELY!
It provides reports for "Time spent working on problems", "Top problems and trends", "Capacity Planning" "Availability". It also provides report customization!
Software Distribution for MSI and non-MSI applications, drivers, Microsoft and non-Microsoft QFEs

How it works:

The service provider installs Operations Manager 2007 and WSUS 3.0 at their premises. The service provider installs the Service Provider Management Pack which provides customer centric views, tasks and reports.
SCE 2007 is installed at the customer site and configured to communicate securely over the internet with Operations Manager 2007 at the service provider site.
The service provider site regularly synchronizes with Microsoft Update (MU) and receives update content and metadata.
Customer devices heartbeat with the SCE 2007 server at each customer site and each SCE 2007 server aggregates customer data and communicates with Operations Manager 2007 at the service provider site. The service provider monitors and performs remote tasks over the internet using the Operations Manager 2007 console or opens a remote SCE 2007 console over the internet to a specific customer site to manage it.

System Center Essentials Beta

daniel — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:34:00 GMT

System Center Essentials is a product designed to deliver a complete solution to solve the systems management pains of small and medium sized customers.

To get into System Center Essentials Beta, Visit connect.microsoft.com and complete the survey.