System Center Configuration Manager 2007 comprehensively assesses, deploys, and updates your servers, clients, and devices—across physical, virtual, distributed, and mobile environments. Optimized for Windows and extensible beyond, it is the best choice for gaining enhanced insight into, and control over, your IT systems.
Built on key Microsoft technologies, such as Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), Windows Server Active Directory, and the Windows architecture, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 maximizes infrastructure investments and drives greater efficiency. With Configuration Manager 2007, organizations can ensure that IT systems comply with desired configuration states to improve availability, security, and performance network-wide.
The System Center Configuration Manager R3 release provides additional features that help customers to realize further cost savings and efficiencies when managing their client infrastructure. These include:
- Power Management
- Use rights for System Center Mobile Device Manager to manage Windows Mobile devices
- Scalability and performance enhancements
- System Center Configuration Manager R3 also serves as a management foundation for the upcoming Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 solution, allowing organizations to manage and protect their client infrastructure in a single interface.
System Center Configuration Manager provides system management tools for key IT areas:
- Asset Intelligence
Configuration Manager 2007 gives organizations better control over their IT infrastructure and assets through asset intelligence technologies that provide IT administrators continuous visibility into what hardware and software assets they have, who is using them, and where they are. - Software Update Management
Configuration Manager 2007 Software Update Management simplifies the complex task of delivering and managing updates to IT systems across the enterprise. IT administrators can deliver updates of Microsoft products, third-party applications, custom in-house line-of-business applications, hardware drivers, and system BIOS to a variety of devices—including desktops, laptops, servers, and mobile devices. - Desired Configuration Management
With Configuration Manager 2007 Desired Configuration Management, organizations can ensure that IT systems comply with desired configuration states to improve availability, security, and performance network-wide. - Software Distribution
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Software Distribution simplifies the complex task of distributing applications and updates to desktops, servers, laptops, and mobile devices across enterprise networks. - Operating System Deployment
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Operating System Deployment is a highly flexible, automated solution that allows IT administrators to fully deploy and configure servers and desktops from any previous state, including bare-metal deployments. - Power Management – New in R3!
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 helps organizations maximize their cost savings from energy-saving desktops and laptops. New tools to monitor, create, and enforce client power management policies enable IT to reduce power consumption and reap the resulting financial and environmental rewards.