1. Overview of System Center Essentials 2010
9/12/ :11 PM
Overview of System Center Essentials 2010
Stephane Consalvi
Server & Tools Business Group
Microsoft North Africa, East Med & Pakistan
© 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

2. IT Pressures of midsized businesses
Microsoft Management Summit 2007
March 26-30, 2007 | San Diego, CA
9/12/ :11 PM
IT Pressures of midsized businesses
“ is critical for my company, server downtime is bad for business”
“Software installation for desktops should be quick and easy –it’s not!”
“Keeping OS and applications updated with the latest patches is time-consuming”
“End-user troubleshooting is manual for us –telephone, , and remote desktop in Windows XP”
“Our hardware and software inventory is in spreadsheets. It’s hard to pull it all together”
© 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

3. Server Management Suite Deliver Cost Effective & Agile Datacenter Services with Integrated Management
IT Process Automation
Simplify with integrated physical, virtual and cloud management
Improve agility by enabling on- premises cloud computing infrastructure
Optimize service delivery across datacenter infrastructure and business critical services
Lower costs through automation
Data Protection & Recovery
Configure & Deploy
IT Service Management
Monitor & Manage Service End to End
Virtualize, Deploy & Manage

4. System Center Essentials
Unified solution for midsize businesses
A unified solution with a single console for managing your physical and virtual servers, desktops, hardware, software, and IT services
Unified
Experience
Monitoring, troubleshooting and asset tracking to keep your IT environment secure and up-to-date
Proactive Management
Simple execution of complex management tasks like troubleshooting end user issues, monitoring, creating and managing virtual servers, software deployment
Increased
Efficiency

5. System Center Family of Products
9/12/ :11 PM
System Center Family of Products
Do It Yourselfer (DIY)*
IT Specialist
User info
IT Generalist
Manages server as secondary responsibility
Manages server as primary but shared responsibility
1-2 full time IT Generalists
5-10 full time IT Generalists with some area of focus
Specialists per workload
MS Segment
Home Users
Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
Lower Midmarket
Core Midmarket
Upper Midmarket
# of PCs 10 25 50
100
250
500
Platform
System Center Products
Workgroup Edition
© 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
This presentation is for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.

6. Unified management experience Virtualization creation & management
9/12/ :11 PM
Integrated management designed for medium sized companies with up to 50 servers and 500 Clients
Unified management experience
Virtualization creation & management
Simple setup
Comprehensive monitoring
Update management
Software and hardware inventory
Software deployment
Integrated reporting

7. Key Investments for Essentials 2010
Integrated Virtualization Management
Dynamic Computer Grouping
Server limit increased to 50
Unified
Experience
Auto-Manage Updates & Deadline
Software Distribution Targeting
Management Pack Importer for Monitoring
Proactive Management
Quick provisioning of new virtual machines
Easy machine conversions from physical-to-virtual
Intelligent placement of virtual workloads
Increased
Efficiency

8. Unified Console Single view of the IT environment New in 2010
Overviews w/ summaries and health
Integrated virtualization that’s simple to use
Easy to find workspaces w/ pertinent data
In-line tasks, reporting and help
New in 2010
Overview pages w/ contextual click-thru
Streamlined group creation for common attributes
Notification Banners for new MP’s
Streamlined management tasks
Custom views w/ search support

9. Inventory & Reports Keep track of hardware and software assets
60+ HW & SW inventory attributes
HW – WMI properties
SW – Add/Remove Programs
Inventory is preset and reported every 22 hours
Inventoried only if a change in is detected
Designed from signed inventory rules CAB file
Visibility thru ready-to-use reports
Daily Health Report providing quick status
180 reports out of the box
New reports available w/ each imported MP
Common reports available from each overview page
New in 2010
Virtualization Candidates
Host Virtual Machine Utilization
Security & Critical Update Compliance Report

10. Console Highlights Common Tasks Machine Groups Summary View Context
Sensitive
Actions
Management
Workspaces
Tutorials
&
Community
Virtual
Summary

11. DEMO Essentials Overview 9/12/2018 10:11 PM
© 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

12. Virtual Machine Management
Maximize your resources
Virtualization management completely incorporated
Reduced learning curve with workspace integration
Comprehensive monitoring of total physical and virtual server environments (OS, apps and services)
Rapid provisioning of new hosts and virtual machines
Fast and reliable P2V and V2V conversion
Flexibility for your environment
Win 2008 Server & Hyper-V for new 64-bit
Win 2003 Server & Virtual Server for existing 32-bit
Virtualization as a setup component
Import of existing virtual servers, including VMWare

13. Virtual Machine Management
2010 Virtualization Features
Host Configuration
Virtual Machine Creation
Copy VM from another server (P2V or V2V)
Snapshots of VM’s for quick backups
Intelligent Placement
Simplicity from the start
Pre-configured virtual machine templates
Short task based wizards
Automated network configuration
Enterprise-class functionality for midsized businesses

14. Physical-to-Virtual Conversion
Intuitive and easy to use
Core feature of Essentials, no additional infrastructure or costs per conversion
5 step wizard based experience
Automatically retrieves source configuration
Configurable storage, memory, CPU, etc.
Preserves network settings and MAC addresses
Optional source shutdown
Intelligent Placement to identify hosts
Automatically determines best host for a VM
Uses VM properties and host configuration
Factors in Memory, Disk size, Network, CPU
Recommendations for easy decision

15. Virtualization Intelligent Placement
CPU, Network,
and Disk Load
Physical Disk
and Memory Requirements
Configuration VM
Result of
Disk Capacity and Memory Check
Disk Capacity and
Memory Check
Capacity Planning
Technology
Normalized
Host + VM Load
Existing Load
Host Performance
and Configuration
Recommendation
Hosts grouped into:
Recommended
Compatible
Incompatible

16. Virtualization Machine Management
9/12/ :11 PM
Virtualization Machine Management
DEMO
© 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

17. Essentials Monitoring
Monitor your IT environment end-to-end
Rich knowledge out of the box to help diagnose & fix alerts
Simple in-line tasks to click and “fix it now.”
Remote control support for managed clients & servers
Ability to customize monitoring
Network devices with SNMPv1 or v2
Notification of problems via , pager, or SMS
2010 Investments
Monitoring import & maintenance via the web
Inline Notification Creation
Service Level Wizards & Reports

18. Essentials Monitoring
Management Packs
Essentials uses same MP’s as Operations Manager
Refined for midsized environments to cut noise
Add custom monitoring from partners & vendors
Microsoft MP’s available for download
Remote Troubleshooting
Detailed information on user’s PC configuration
Perform remote tasks right from the console
Ping, List Processes, IPConfig, etc.

19. 9/12/ :11 PM
Monitoring
DEMO
© 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

20. Software Deployment Quickly Administer & Distribute Software
Deploy software applications for clients & servers
Simple 5-step application install wizard
Support for MSI and EXE applications
Parameters defaulted requiring minimal knowledge to deploy software
Deployment status reporting
Install now support
Easily uninstall applications deployed
New in 2010
Support for common targeting filters
Modify properties of existing packages
Localized title/description during package creation

21. DEMO Software Deployment 9/12/2018 10:11 PM
© 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

22. Update Management Easily Configure & Track IT Updates New in 2010
Update management for Microsoft and 3rd parties
Multi-member group support for flexible targeting
Compliance & status reports across the IT environment
“Big Red Button” for installation of pressing updates
Built upon WSUS technology
New in 2010
Auto-manage the software updates needed
Auto-approval deadlines- “Set and Forget”
Ability to sync with MU multiple times daily
Simple view for ‘Needed updates’

23. 9/12/ :11 PM
Updates
DEMO
© 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

24. Installing Essentials
Get up and running quickly!
Abstracts the complex process of installing
Simple 10-screen setup
Interactive prerequisite checker to analyze readiness
Contextual help, ToolTips and Validation
Installation 64-bit and 32-bit server hardware
Flexible SQL Server configurations (remote vs. local)
New in 2010
Automated Prerequisite Remediation
Modular Setup of Components
Dynamic updates at install time
Core Management Packs Only
Migration to Essentials 2010 for VMM WG & Essentials 2007

25. Configuring Essentials
Simple to configure, guided step-by-step
Wizard-driven experience for initial configuration
Product configuration
Computer and Device Discovery
Update Management configuration
New in 2010
Improved out-of-the-box experience
Extended criteria for Scheduled Discovery
Policy conflict detection
Monitoring Configuration Wizard
Recommends monitoring experience
Automatically imports and updates mp’s`

26. System Center Essentials Resources
Microsoft System Center Essentials Homepage: Tech Center (for documentation and downloads):
Microsoft Virtualization Homepage
Microsoft System Center Homepage
Self Help Resources TechNet MyITForum: Product Blog:

27. Thank you!

28. Pricing And Licensing for SCE 2007
9/12/2018
Pricing And Licensing for SCE 2007
Retail and Volume Licensing (Open, Select, EA)
Base Server: $2000 (ERP), supports 10 Servers/50 Desktops
Optional Base Server with SQL Server for $2929
Additional Server Management Licenses: [Up to 30 servers]
1 or 5 servers at $100 per server (ERP)
Additional Client Management Licenses: [Up to 500 desktops]
5 or 20 clients at $20 per client (ERP)
© 2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

29. Feature Comparison With OpsMgr 2007
Monitoring
OpsMgr 2007
Essentials 2010*
Essentials 2010 difference
Monitoring of Windows Servers, Clients, Hardware, Software and Services √
Essentials ships with a Network device management pack
Management Packs with Expert Knowledge
Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM)
Add Monitoring Wizard
Reporting
Essentials data storage limited to 40 days. No report authoring
Branch office monitoring
Essentials 2010 is a single server solution; no tiered connection of servers
Role-based security
Local or domain admin only for Essentials 2010 server
Connector Framework
Audit Collection Services
Web Console
Cross-platform support

30. Feature Comparison With ConfigMgr 2007
Configuration
ConfigMgr 2007
Essentials 2010*
Essentials 2007 difference
Patch Mgmt (Microsoft and Third party) √
Software Distribution
Essentials offers basic .MSI and .EXE deployment with optional command line parameters. No advanced packaging capability.
Hardware and Software Inventory
Essentials collects 60+ fixed software and hardware attributes. Configuration Manager 2007 inventory is extensible
Branch office updates and software dist.
Essentials is a single server solution using BITS 2.0 (bandwidth aware). No site replication servers
Operating System Deployment
Desired Configuration management
Wake on LAN
Network Address Protection (NAP) integration

31. Feature Comparison With VMM 2008
SCE 2010
VMM 2008
Provisioning X
Templates
VM Cloning
Candidate Identification
Physical to Virtual Conversion
Virtual to Virtual Conversion
VM configuration & properties
VM state
Library
Checkpoints (Snapshots)
Migration across physical machines
Virtualization Reports
Monitoring VMs
64 bit guest OS
Hardware Assisted Virtualization
Physical resource optimization (PRO)
VMWare Management
Self-service console
Live thumbnail
Command Line Interface