1. Technical Introduction to Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010
Tech·Ed  North America 2009
11/15/ :41 AM
SESSION CODE: MGT314
Technical Introduction to Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010
Jason Buffington Sr. Technical Product Manager
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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. Session Objectives and Takeaways
Understand why Microsoft built System Center Essentials
Learn IT Management capabilities of System Center Essentials
Review Essentials relative to other System Center products

3. Customer IT Pains in Midsize Businesses
Keeping IT infrastructure up and running
Keeping track of hardware/ software assets
Improving end-user productivity
Keeping systems up-to- date
Purchasing, deploying, managing & learning multiple and complex applications to accomplish these tasks
Reducing server sprawl and IT power/cooling costs
Moving from reactive to proactive state
Quickly troubleshooting PC and laptop issues
Deploying new software in a timely manner
Keeping hardware & software updated with the latest patches
Ensuring changes are made on time
Understanding what users have, purchasing the right software licenses
Regulatory or internal compliance

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 IT Management Products
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System Center IT Management Products
Do It Yourselfer (DIY)
IT Specialist
IT staff
IT Generalist
Manages servers as secondary role
Specialists per workload
1-5 full time IT “Jack of all Trades” Generalists
MS Segment
Small Business
Midsized Organization
Enterprise
# of PCs 10 25 50
100
250
500
Platforms
System Center Products +
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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 available
New reports available w/ each imported MP
Key reports on each overview page
New in 2010
Virtualization Candidates
Host Virtual Machine Utilization
Security & Critical Update Compliance Report

10. DEMO Essentials Overview 11/15/2018 11:41 AM
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11. 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

12. 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.

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Monitoring
DEMO
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14. Software Deployment
Quickly Administer & Distribute Software Deploy software applications for clients & servers Simple 5-step application install wizard Support for MSI and EXE applications 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

15. 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’

16. Software & Update Management
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Software & Update Management
DEMO
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17. Virtual Machine Management
Maximize your resources
Virtualization management incorporated
Reduced learning curve with workspace integration
Comprehensive monitoring of total physical and virtual server environments
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 32-bit
Virtualization as a setup component
Import of existing virtual servers & VMWare

18. 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
Live Migration
Simplicity from the start
Pre-configured virtual machine templates
Short task based wizards
Automated network configuration
Enterprise-class functionality for midsized businesses

19. Physical-to-Virtual Conversion
Intuitive and easy to use
Core feature of Essentials, no additional infrastructure or costs per conversion
Online or Offline 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

20. Virtualization Machine Management
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Virtualization Machine Management
DEMO
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21. Installing & Configuring Essentials
Setup
Abstracts the complex process of installing
Simple 10-screen setup
Automated Prerequisite Remediation
Modular Setup of Components
Dynamic updates at install time
Core Management Packs Only
Configuration
Simple to configure, guided step-by-step
Wizard-driven experience for initial configuration
Extended criteria for Scheduled Discovery
Policy conflict detection
Monitoring Configuration Wizard
recommends monitoring experience
automatically imports and updates MP’s

22. Summary 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

23. System Center Essentials Resources
Eval available on
Tech Center (for documentation and downloads):
Microsoft Virtualization Homepage
Microsoft System Center Homepage
Self Help Resources TechNet Product Blog:

24. Management Track Resources
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System Center Community –
TechNet Home Page –
TechNet Community –
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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.
© 2009 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.