Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 provides IT professionals in mid-sized organizations, a unified physical and virtual management experience. It enables you to better secure, update, monitor, and troubleshoot from a single console, so you can efficiently and proactively manage your IT environment.
Microsoft System Center Essentials is a proactive and unified management solution that will enable IT professionals in midsize organizations to more efficiently update, secure, 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
Requirements:
Recommended requirements for the server:
2.8 GHz or faster processor(s)
4 GB of RAM
20 GB of available hard disk space (1 GB on the system drive); 150 GB of available hard disk space if planning virtualization management
Essentials console only:
1.0 GHz processor
512 MB of RAM
Here are some key features of "Microsoft System Center Essentials":
· Support for managing workgroup-joined computers
· Support for monitoring SNMPv1 network devices
· Support for using multiple auto-approval rules in update management
· Support for using a remote SQL Server 2005 instance on a computer with a different architecture (x86 or x64) than that of the computer running the Essentials 2007 management server
· Support for running the Essentials 2007 management server, console and agent on computers running Windows Server 2008 within 90 days of the release of Essentials 2007 SP1. Management packs for Windows Server 2008 and its role will be available shortly after the release of Windows Server 2008.
· Improved backup and disaster recovery guidance
· Improvements in management pack quality
· Improvements in performance, usability, and supportability
Limitations:
· The evaluation edition is valid for 90 days after installation
