Välkommen till Sommarkollo 2006

1. 2006 Välkommen till Sommarkollo 2006 Jonny Andersson Microsoft

2. System Center: People, Process and Technology

3. System Center Roadmap

4. 2004 2005 2006 2007 SDM SDM SDM SDM SDM DSI and System Center Roadmap WindowsServer 2003 Windows Server 2003 R2 Windows VistaClient Windows Vista Server Platform VStudio 2005 MODEL WSUS SMS 2003 SP1 SMS 2003 Update SMS v4 SMS MODEL MODEL MOM 2005 MOM 2005 SP1 MOM v3 MOM System Center Reporting Mgr 2005 System Center Reporting Mgr v2 MODEL New Tech System Center Data Protection Mgr System Center Capacity Mgr 2006 System Center Capacity Mgr v2

5. Customers’ Needs Today • Line-of-business • Productivity – Office • Ensure reliable delivery “Help me deploy key business applications reliably.” • What hardware do I have? • What software is deployed? • What are my users actually using? • Make business sense of it “Help me understand what I own and what I’m using.” • Tell me where I’m vulnerable • Remediate vulnerabilities • Provide enterprise control “Help me protect my IT environment.”

6. SMS 2003 Capabilities SecurityPatchManagement AssetManagement Support forthe Mobile Workforce Application Deployment LeveragingWindows Management Services

7. SMS 2003 Asset Management Reduce software costs and stay compliant by understanding the installed application base and their usage.

8. Asset ManagementDemands • Reduce hardware and software costs • Need to know my hardware configurations • Determine what applications I have • Know how applications are used • Manage license compliance • Enable informed business decisions • Accurately identify assets • Record and track asset information

9. Inventory Capabilities • Increase scale • 100,000+ systems on single primary site • 5-7X scale over SMS 2.0 • More control over software inventory • Better selection criteria • Wildcards, directories, and environment variables • Highlight different inventory permutations, like *.exe, m*.exe,etc. • Exclude encrypted and compressed volumes (critical for servers) • Ability to just get file properties improving system performance • Better reporting on installed applications • WMI provider to inventory Add/Remove Programs data • Both the UI and Registry Information • Easier to track suite of applications • Enterprise Agreement True-Up report • WMI provider to inventory Windows Installer component status • Reduced inventory traffic • Deltas generated on clients, advanced clients use compressedXML files

10. Software Metering Client Windows Media MS Word Internet Explorer Client SMS Server Client

11. Software Metering • Metering provides application usage tracking • Enables informed purchasing decisions • Allows you to track concurrent licensing • Reduces complexity in enterprise • Administrators have control • Specify what applications to meter • Multi-site configuration tool allow replication of rules • Summarization tasks reduces data store • Tracks user, machine, time, frequency, usage • Usage data can be blocked from flowing up hierarchy to reduce traffic

12. WMI • WMI-Based Inventory • Allows improved client-side performance during inventory scans • Provides a richer set of inventory data, including BIOS and chassis enclosure data • Based on the Common Information Model standard • Allows information from multiple sources

16. SMS 2003 Improvements • Release of the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates (ITMU). • Desired Configuration Monitoring SA • Allows for the definition of desired configuration settings across multiple hardware and software configuration sources and detects configuration non-compliance before services outages occur. • Updates to the Device Management FP to support Windows Mobile 5.0.

17. Desired Configuration Monitoring • Prevents unplanned service downtime by analyzing configuration data against predefined manifests and reports non-compliance. • Ensures consistency across services and higher uptime to reduce support costs and improve manageability of IT. • Includes detailed, predefined reports to analyze server roles and hardware types that are out-of-compliance. • Detailed look at Exchange and other Server System products.

18. SMS 2003 SP2 Enhancements • SMS Setup Changes • Update.exe • Platform Changes • Deprecating Advanced Client Support for: • Windows 2000 SP3 systems • Windows XP RTM • Active Directory Security Group Discovery • FQDN Support • SQL Server Support (SQL 2005) • Performance Improvements • Integrated ITMU for patch management

19. SMS 2003 R2 • Two New Features • Inventory Tool for Vulnerability Assessment • Inventory Tool for Custom Updates • Avaliable now • No Cost to SA Customers

20. SMS 2003 R2 ITVA • Inventory Tool for Vulnerability Assessment • Central web reporting via SMS • Leverages current SMS investment • Uses MBSA 2.0 • Scans for Over 100 Misconfigurations, Including: • Are unnecessary services installed and running? • Do file shares have appropriate permissions? • Is Windows Firewall enabled? • Are Automatic Updates enabled? • Are strong passwords enforced? • Are unsecured Guest accounts enabled? • Are there too many local Administrators on a single machine?

21. SMS 2003 R2 ITCU • Inventory Tool for Custom Updates • Allows organizations to leverage SMS investment to update their LOB applications through the development of customer catalogs based on the standard schema already used for Windows and Microsoft updates. • Enables 3rd parties to host their own catalogs for updates for their products.

22. System Center Reporting ManagerOverview

23. System Center Reporting Manager Current Enterprise Challenges CFO Jack Hanson IT ManagerHaven Ford Desktop Configuration AdministratorMeg Collins Enterprise Systems AdministratorRay Clark

24. System Center Reporting Manager 2006 • Data-warehouse and reporting solution • Helps IT and Business Managers: • Better deliver/support corporate decision-making • Improve quality of service provided • Better manage IT resources • Through: • Enabling new business and IT capabilities via integration of Change and Configuration Management (CCM), Operations Management (OM) and Business Context data • Improving reporting capabilities • Providing a platform for data convergence beyond systems management

25. SCRM 2006 Data Content • IT Verticals • SW Inventory (Files, Add-Remove Programs) • HW Inventory • SW Updates • SW Distribution • Alerts • Performance • SMS Policy (Advertisement, Collection, Site) • MOM Policy (Rules, Service Discovery, State Monitoring) • Business Context Horizontals • User Name • Cost Center • Location • Department • Division • Manager • Date • Time

26. SCRM 2005 – Data Sources DTS DTS Active Directory (Or Other Source) Business Context Data SMS Primary Site Server MOM Management Server

27. SCRM Business Scenarios Software Update Compliance Baseline Configuration Comparison on the Desktop Audit of Installed Hardware SOX & HIPPA Compliance via SMS SW Distribution Server Health by Business Customer Performance Comparison

28. SMS Used for Software Distribution • Scenario: As part of SOX compliance, a business manager needs to know that all servers for his division are being managed by SMS. • Solution: Computers with MOM Agent Installed and not SMS report.

29. Computers with MOM and not SMS

30. Server Health by Business Customer • Scenario: The manager of a Call Center has seen unusually slow performance with her application. She has contacted the data center manager to get detailed information. The data center manager needs to assess the health of the servers supporting the call center business. • Solution: Computer Alerts Summary report.

31. Computer Alerts Summary

32. Performance Comparison Before & After Configuration Changes • Last Tuesday was patch Tuesday I want to see if the patches that were installed had any negative impact on server performance. • Solution: Performance comparison before and after configuration changes

33. Performance Comparison

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