Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 - Integrated Virtual and Physical IT Management for Medium-Sized Businesses

2. Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 - Integrated Virtual and Physical IT Management for Medium-Sized Businesses Ravi Kiran Chintalapudi Program Manager Microsoft Eamon O’Reilly Group Program Manager Microsoft

3. Session Objectives and Takeaways • Session Objective(s): • Understand why Microsoft built System Center Essentials • Learn IT Management capabilities of System Center Essentials • Introduce new capabilities available in Essentials 2010 • Demonstrate how Essentials makes IT management easier

4. IT Pressures of midsized businesses “E-mail is critical for my company, server downtime is bad for business” “Keeping OS and applications updated with the latest patches is time-consuming” “Software installation for desktops should be quick and easy –it’s not!” “I’m expected to do more and save money without any more staff” “Need to reduce hardware costs: Server power, cooling…” “End-user troubleshooting is manual for us –telephone, e-mail, and remote desktop” “Our hardware and software inventory is in spreadsheets. It’s hard to pull it all together”

5. 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

6. 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 Midsize Business Upper Midmarket Lower Midmarket Core Midmarket 10 25 50 100 250 500 # of PCs Platform System Center Products Workgroup Edition

7. 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

8. The Roadmap for Essentials March ’08 SP1 May ’09 CTP May ‘07 RTM Sept ‘09 Beta Spring ’10 RTM Winter ‘10 RC

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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 is detected Delivered from signed inventory rules 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

12. DEMO Essentials Overview

13. 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

14. 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.

15. DEMO Monitoring

16. 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

17. 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’

18. DEMO Updates

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. DEMO Virtualization Machine Management

23. 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

24. Thank You & Answer Questions Integrated Virtual and Physical IT Management for Medium-Sized Businesses • 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

25. System Center Essentials Resources Beta now available onhttp://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 Product Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenteressentials TwitterSystem Center Midsize Business: http://twitter.com/DMills_MS System Center Essentials: http://twitter.com/SCessentials

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