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Overview Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007, formerly known as Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 (SMS), integrates with the other members of the System Center family of IT management solutions. The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) describes IT industry best practices and standards and is globally acknowledged as providing a sound basis and de facto standard for IT service management. The Microsoft® Operations Framework (MOF) provides the specific, prescriptive guidance for managing Microsoft technologies within a customer’s environment to meet the standards for ITIL. The ITIL lifecycle includes Planning, Building, Deploying, and Operations quadrants to describe the various tasks and roles that Jane has to handle as part of daily life in the data center. MOF shifts this to: Changing, Operating, Supporting, and Optimizing quadrants in a continuous lifecycle. The Configuration Manager 2007 component of the System Center family of solutions provides tools that help with all four quadrants of the ITIL lifecycle. Microsoft is committed to providing both the guidance and the tools to help data centers use ITIL best practices to reduce costs, increase service levels, and deliver demonstrated business value. This requires continuous improvement that depends on addressing people and process as well as technology. Configuration Manager is an important tool to help to improve daily life in the data center.
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SMS is an industry-leading solution for enterprise management services, including software distribution, inventory, software update, configuration management, and operating system deployment. Large enterprises have used SMS with the Operating System Deployment Feature Pack to completely design and automate their Microsoft Windows client deployments, providing a consistent, predictable, and highly manageable deployment scenario. Configuration Manager 2007 extends this to provide the benefits of standardized operating system deployment to the deployment of Windows Server in the data center.
See System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and the Datacenter
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SAN DIEGO -- Microsoft is in the process of bringing all of its server offerings into one system, complete with unified tools for development, management and security, Microsoft vice president Andrew Lees said Tuesday.
Management remains a top priority for Microsoft's Server System, according to Lees. He spoke to some 11,000 customers and partners on the second day of Tech-Ed, Microsoft's conference for developers and IT professionals held this week in San Diego.
Lees, Microsoft corporate vice president for server and tools marketing, announced the Dynamic Systems Initiative, a plan to make designing, deploying and managing complex distributed computing systems easier. Now and over the next few years, Microsoft (Quote, Chart) will deliver many different components of the initiative.
"We're thinking about the overall life cycle for systems, the way they're designed, operated and managed," Lees said. For example, in a future version of Exchange Server, a tool called Systems Center could let a network designer quickly model and test a network expansion. A simple forms-based tool would let the designer set parameters such as how many users would be on the network, when peak hours would be, what time zone they would be in and what their peak hours would be. The tool would suggest a network configuration and run a simulation. The designer could check performance and tweak the architecture using graphical tools.
"This is a glimpse of what we'll work on delivering to you with the Dynamic Systems Initiative," Lees said.
"The hundreds of IT professionals I've talked to tell me that the lack of integration across IT causes complexity, cost and pain," he said. Plugging the Tech-Ed theme of "do more with less," Lees told the audience that Microsoft has made a commitment to allow all servers to be managed through Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), providing a single management console.
Microsoft kicked off Dynamic Systems Initiative today with the release of Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003, Windows Storage Server 2003 Feature Pack and release candidate code for MOM 2005 "Express."
As part of the Windows Server System Common Engineering Criteria for 2005, also announced today, Management Packs will be available when products are released, and they'll be updated on the same schedules as the products. "If I'm on the Exchange team, I'm going to design MOM as the way I manage Exchange," Lees said.
Lees announced Windows Server System Infrastructure Environment, providing guidance and support on how best to use elements of the server system. As server product packages are released, they'll include a set of guidelines, solution guidance, patterns and best practices for building on the software. The Microsoft Solutions Architecture has been renamed to Windows Server System Reference Architecture, and it will be part of the guidance package.
Available today is Best Practices Analyzer Tool for Microsoft SQL Server 2000. It gives database administrators some guidelines and recommendations from the Microsoft SQL Server development team, plus a series of system checks to help them prepare for SQL Server 2005. The Best Practices Analyzer will be used across Windows Server System environments.
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Microsoft will release its long-awaited desktop management software in November at a conference in Denmark.
The software will be released to manufacturing sometime between September and then, and will be formally released Nov. 11 at the Microsoft IT Forum 2003 in Copenhagen, according to Microsoft.
The ship date for Systems Management Server 2003, which was previously code-named Topaz, has slipped before. The software was originally due out this summer, but it was held in trial longer so Microsoft could tweak some problems that users had complained about. Microsoft executives then said SMS 2003 would ship in September.
Customers have given thumbs up about the latest version of SMS 2003 in general, though those who are on older versions of Microsoft platforms don't get the same functionality as those on the newer versions. Release Candidate 1 was made available July 1, and apparently Microsoft ran into some issues the company wants to isolate and fix, one expert said.
The delay is not terribly important to SMS experts, who said they would rather see a quality product in the end. "We would rather them hold [SMS 2003] than release another [SMS] 2.0-like RTM," said Larry Duncan, a Nashville, Tenn.-based systems management consultant.
Customers agree. "SMS 2.0 is working well enough for us so we're not worried about [the delay]," said Arch Willingham, vice president of T.U. Parks Construction, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Over time, Microsoft plans to merge its three manageability platforms, SMS 2003, Microsoft Operations Manager 2004 and Application Center, into a suite of products, and eventually into one integrated platform called System Center. System Center isn't due to appear until sometime around 2006 or beyond.
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According to Neil Leslie, general manager of Microsoft Corp.'s customer service and support group, the company within six months will release a beta version of Network Monitor 3.0, an upgrade of a tool that has shipped as part of its Systems Management Server (SMS) software. What will be different in the next SMS release, Leslie says, is that Netmon won't have a "90-day time bomb" that turns off the tool unless you buy it. In other words, if you get SMS, you'll get Netmon 3.0. Free. Netmon captures and stores network packets for analysis. It can filter packets by protocol type and let you find devices on your network and track their packet-broadcasting rates. The 3.0 release adds a Visual Basic-like scripting language so you can easily customize it, says Leslie. Today, he notes, you need C and assembler language skills to do so.Now for the quid pro quo. Leslie says Microsoft will also make available later this year D-Code, its database of the various service and support tools that the company uses internally. The database not only lists what's what, but it also rates the effectiveness of what's what. Leslie says he wants other companies to rate their troubleshooting and analysis tools inside D-Code so the info can be shared broadly. Microsoft giveth, and it asketh.
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At the Microsoft IT Forum conference in Copenhagen on Tuesday, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates beat the Microsoft Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) drum, and talked up his vision for Microsoft's gradually emerging autonomic-computing plan. Gates also demo'd "Indy," the performance-management-modeling tool that Microsoft first unveiled in March this year. Microsoft used the IT Forum show as its launch pad for the first public beta of Windows Update Services (WUS, which is the product formerly known as Software Update Services 2.0); and the commencement of worldwide availability for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 and the second version of its solution accelerator tool for deploying Windows XP and Office 2003 desktops.
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An executive overview of the new features in SMS 2.0 Source: Microsoft.com
Keywords
List for Searching
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 199435 - This article contains a list
of keywords that you can use to search for articles related to Systems Management
Server in the Microsoft Knowledge Base using the search engine found at
the following Online Support Web page: (updated 931999)
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Introducing Systems Management Server
Chapter 1 - Introducing Systems Management Server Installing and maintaining
software is a major cost to corporations with locations across a wide geographical
area. In fact, most of the cost of maintaining a corporate computer system
comes from the software installation, support, maintenance©not from the
initial licensing of the software itself.
Getting to Know Systems Management Server
Chapter 2 - Getting to Know Systems Management Server Systems Management
Server provides a set of tools for both administrators and users. The administrative
tools allow you to manage the system, and to perform administrative tasks
such as distributing software and viewing inventory.
Systems Management Server Glossary
Introducing Systems Management Server Version 2.0
Systems
Management Server 2.0 Release Notes
Taming the Unruly LAN
Understanding Changes to SMS Features and Functionality
Planning for SMS in Your Organization
Systems
Management Server 2.0 Release Notes
If You've Used SMS Before...
Systems Management Server Glossary A access account A user or user group
account that is given access to a package on a distribution point. Access
accounts are used for security to specify which users or user groups will
be permitted to access the package in order to run advertised
Sample Chapter 1 from the SMS Administration Manual: Introducing Systems
Management Server Version 2.0 For most organizations, managing information
systems has become an essential, yet complex operation. Microsoft© Systems
Management Server version 2.0 (SMS) is designed to help you meet the technical
and management challenges.
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 215468 - The information contained in
this article is from the Systems Management Server 2.0 Release Notes. You
can find the Release Notes on the Systems Management Server CD through the
Taskpad or by opening Readme.htm in your browser. (updated 1191999)
An overview of SMS for new administrators and managers. Source: Windows
NT Systems Magazine (Oct 1997) Part 2 is
here
Chapter 2 - Understanding Changes to SMS Features and Functionality If you
have used earlier versions of Systems Management Server (SMS) prior to version
2.0, you will find significant differences in the concepts, features, and
the way you work. This chapter provides a general description
Chapter 3 - Planning for SMS in Your Organization The previous chapters
described the structure and function of Systems Management Server (SMS)
version 2.0 and how changes to previous versions translate into network
administration tasks.
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 215468 - The information contained in
this article is from the Systems Management Server 2.0 Release Notes. You
can find the Release Notes on the Systems Management Server CD through the
Taskpad or by opening Readme.htm in your browser. (updated 1191999)
If You've Used SMS Before SMS 1.2 to SMS 2.0 Changes Even a quick look at
Systems Management Server version 2.0 (SMS) will reveal substantial changes
to its architecture, database structure, and feature set. The following
tables summarize the structural and functional changes between SMS
Introducing SMS Version 2.0
Introducing SMS Version 2.0 For most organizations, managing information
systems has become an essential, yet complex operation. Microsoft© Systems
Management Server version 2.0 (SMS) is designed to help you meet the technical
and management challenges of modern systems information
SMS
Security Essentials
Downloadable whitepaper in Adobe Acrobat format discusses SMS security
issues that are relevant to SMS 2.0 with Service Pack 1, computers running
Windows NT Server version 4.0. The clients and NetWare configurations that
SMS 2.0 supports are also included in this paper. This paper addresses many
of the same issues that Chapter 4, "Creating Your SMS Security Strategy"
of the Systems Management Server Version 2.0 Administrator's Guide addresses.
and also discusses SMS security topics not included in that chapter, providing
additional background material and greater detail. Source Microsoft.com
Understanding the Value of IntelliMirror, Remote OS Installation, and Systems
Management Server
Understanding the Value of IntelliMirror, Remote OS Installation,
and Systems Management Server IntelliMirrorTM, Remote OS Installation, and
Microsoft© Systems Management Server work together to offer a full complement
of change and configuration management features for
WMI
Terms and Concepts
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 216738 - Windows Management Instrumentation
(WMI), the Microsoft implementation for Web Based Enterprise Management
(WBEM), is an integral component of Systems Management Server version 2.0.
(updated 7/17/2000)
Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Administrator's Companion --
Must have addition for administrators, June 2, 2004
Although I completely recommend this title, I found that this book isn't enough completely on it's own to truly cover all the ins and outs of SMS 2003. Microsoft provides two free downloads which I recommend you read and use in conjunction with this title; "Concepts, Planning, and Deployment Guide" and "Operations Guide" (The SMS 2003 Microsoft website also has many other resources for administration). |
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