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Over 70% of an IT system's total cost involves maintenance. Change management is one of the major aspects of administering a an IT environment. System Center Configuration Manager 2007 controls administration expenses by offering smart solutions for installing, updating, and assessing the workstations, servers, and mobile computers across an information system. System Center Configuration Manager is based on vital Microsoft platforms including Microsoft Windows Server Update Services and Active Directory and replaces Microsoft SMS Server 2003 as the most powerful utility for organizations of all sizes to make sure that their networks are properly configured to maximize availability, protection, and performance.

Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can help you to install Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager to minimize management costs, enhance network security, cut support requirements by keeping applications current, enforce compliance with software licenses, and track program usage patterns to help you arrive at smart purchasing decisions.

What's New in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 enhances many features of System Management Server and in addition introduces novel features to streamline software set up, maintenance, and analysis. New management functionality of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 include:

• Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008
  Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager helps companies plan and execute updates and deployments of Windows Server 2008, reducing the labor for preparation and installation while enhancing the automated management the datacenter.
• Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows 7 Support
  Preparation, installation, and worker migration is fully supported for Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows 7. System support staff can perform OS-less, parallel, and in-situ installations of Vista or Microsoft Windows 7.
• Enhanced Asset Intelligence
  The enhanced Asset Intelligence knowledgebase supports categorical tracking of deployed applications. Managers can generate reports about computer owners and meter application usage patterns. The improved Asset Intelligence function of System Center Configuration Manager also offers support for MVLS reports integration.
• Desired Configuration Management (DCM)
  Through configuration profiles known as "baselines" that are offered by Microsoft (as Configuration Packs) and other vendors or developed in-house, IT administrators can specify and monitor which computers have diverged from their targeted conditions. Network administrators can utilize these configuration definitions to improve security, availability, and performance and to enforce adherence to business policies or regulatory requirements.
• Integrated Portable Device Management
  Built-in and enhanced support for handling portable devices tightens security and streamlines provisioning and change management for handheld and embedded devices. Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager gives highly efficient management capabilities, including over-the-air updates, for companies dealing with an ever-growing collection of off-site employees.
• Improved OS Image Deployment
  Efficiencies added to Operating System update modes allow OS-free, PXE, and in-situ deployment. The crucial task of image management is drastically streamlined. Managers can build WIM images of an operating system and associated applications and install them using Configuration Manager's versatile Task Sequencer.
• Software Update Control
  Software Update Management simplifies the task of distributing updates and patches to IT systems throughout an IT environment. Network managers can quickly deliver updates of applications from Microsoft and third-party vendors as well as in-house LoB software, drivers, and BIOS software to a variety of computers including desktops, notebooks, servers, and mobile devices. In conjunction with Virtual Machine Manager, System Center Configuration Manager provides a unified process for supporting actual and virtual environments.
• Network Access Protection Support
  Network Access Protection in Windows Server 2008 is a component that provides a platform for ensuring network health. Network Access Protection provides an integrated technique for assessing the health condition of any computer trying to attach to a network. NAP intelligently restricts the client's access to the network unless the installation of required software updates has been validated.
  

  System Center Configuration Manager 2007 delivers continuous network security and isolation support for both perimeter and online computers to ensure that computers communicating on the network comply with an organization’s requirements for system health.

How Progent Can Assist You with System Center Configuration Manager
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 can be challenging to install to achieve best results. A successful implementation calls for extensive experience with Windows products. Progent's seasoned consultants have broad experience helping small businesses to conserve time and reduce expenses by using Microsoft's update automation solutions. Progent can assist your business to deploy System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to minimize network administration expenses, enhance network security, improve productivity by keeping applications current, ensure adherence to software licenses, and track software usage patterns so you can make smart buying decisions. Progent's expertise with online support can leverage the budgetary benefits of System Center Configuration Manager 2007, and Progent's security consultants can assist your company to create a comprehensive security plan that incorporates the advanced security features of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. Progent also can provide high-level expertise for System Center Operations Manager, which is a key component of Microsoft’s Microsoft System Center network administration solution.

Progent can also help your company with a System Management Server upgrade to System Center Configuration Manager or with preparation and execution of a migration to Microsoft Windows Server 2008.

To learn more details concerning Progent's consulting for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007, phone 1-800-993-9400 or send email to windows-server-help@progent.com.

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