Overview of System Center Essentials 2010

1. Overview of System Center Essentials 2010 Stephane Consalvi Server & Tools Business Group Microsoft North Africa, East Med & Pakistan

2. IT Pressures of midsized businesses “E-mail 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, e-mail, and remote desktop in Windows XP” “Our hardware and software inventory is in spreadsheets. It’s hard to pull it all together”

3. Server Management SuiteDeliver Cost Effective & Agile Datacenter Services with Integrated Management 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 IT Process Automation

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 IT Specialist Do It Yourselfer (DIY)* IT Generalist User info Manages server as secondary responsibility 1-2 full time IT Generalists Manages server as primary but shared responsibility 5-10 full time IT Generalists with some area of focus Specialists per workload Home Users MS Segment Enterprise Small Business Mid Market Upper Midmarket Lower Midmarket Core Midmarket 10 25 50 100 250 500 # of PCs Platform System Center Products Workgroup Edition

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

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

8. Unified Console • Single view of the IT environment • 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 CommonTasks Machine Groups Summary View Context Sensitive Actions Management Workspaces Tutorials & Community Virtual Summary

11. Essentials Overview DEMO

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

16. Virtualization Machine Management DEMO

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 email, 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 • http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sce/cc462787.aspx • Remote Troubleshooting • Detailed information on user’s PC configuration • Perform remote tasks right from the console • Ping, List Processes, IPConfig, etc.

19. Monitoring DEMO

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. Software Deployment DEMO

22. Update Management • Easily Configure & Track IT Updates • 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. Updates DEMO

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: http://www.microsoft.com/sce Tech Center (for documentation and downloads): http://technet.microsoft.com/sce/default.aspx Microsoft Virtualization Homepagehttp://www.microsoft.com/virtualization Microsoft System Center Homepagehttp://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/ Self Help Resources TechNet http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sce/selfhelp.mspx MyITForum: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/gzierdt/default.aspx Product Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenteressentials

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28. 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)

29. Feature Comparison With OpsMgr 2007

30. Feature Comparison With ConfigMgr 2007

31. Feature Comparison With VMM 2008