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Systems
Management Server 2003 Evaluation Software
[May 16, 2004]
A Window into
Microsoft Server Innovations By
Susan Kuchinskas
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,
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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.
[June 2003]
Microsoft plans November debut for SMS 2003
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.
Microsoft SMS 2.0 Enterprise Software Update Management
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.
Gates
Details Microsoft Management Initiatives
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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Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 FAQ
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Microsoft TechNet Systems Management Server 2.0 Product Documentation
Microsoft SMS Introducing Systems Management Server
Systems Management
Server 2000 -- Index of Articles
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, maintenanceİnot 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
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
Introducing Systems Management Server Version 2.0
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. Microsoftİ Systems Management Server version
2.0 (SMS) is designed to help you meet the technical and management challenges.
Systems Management Server
2.0 Release Notes
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)
Taming
the Unruly LAN
An overview of SMS for new administrators and managers. Source: Windows NT Systems
Magazine (Oct 1997) Part 2 is
here
Understanding Changes to SMS Features and Functionality
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
Planning for SMS in Your Organization
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.
Systems Management Server
2.0 Release Notes
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)
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If You've
Used SMS Before...
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. Microsoftİ Systems Management Server
version 2.0 (SMS) is designed to help you meet the technical and management challenges
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Articles and Whitepapers
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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 Microsoftİ 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) |
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Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Administrator's Companion --
 Must
have addition for administrators, June 2, 2004
There is no question that if you need to implement or administer
SMS, this is a must own. The book covers everything needed to
plan and configure your back-end environment, as well as to
setup a good administrative model for IT support, application
management and end-users control and deployment. This title
will also serve as an excellent day to day resource long after
you have implemented SMS.
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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