Microsoft System Center - Updates and News, December 2005
System Center Capacity Planner 2006 will RTM in December 2005
System Center Capacity Planner 2006 employs state of the art modeling, analytical, and simulation technology to provide the IT Professional with the guidance required to plan a deployment of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 in the most efficient manner, while also allowing for “what-if” analysis for future planning. Future releases of System Center Capacity Planner will provide support for additional Microsoft applications, as well as deliver an SDK to enable 3rd party companies and customers to build custom capacity modeling packs for their own applications.
Integrated Management Solution for Small and Medium Sized Businesses, through System Center Essentials
System Center Essentials is an integrated product that helps IT professionals in midsize organizations (50-500 PCs) easily secure, update, monitor, and track their IT environment allowing IT to more effectively support end users. System Center Essentials will provide a single console for IT generalists to perform monitoring, updates, basic asset management and deployment functions. The monitoring component of Systems Center Essentials will be based on MOMv3; a technology preview of MOM V3 service oriented monitoring capabilities were demonstrated in Bob Muglia’s keynote. This announcement is in support of Microsoft’s commitment to deliver best-in-class management technologies that serve the unique and diverse needs of midsize organizations by providing solutions that will deliver a higher return on investment with a low level of complexity. In addition to becoming available as a standalone product in 2007, System Center Essentials will be included as a part of “Centro”, the new infrastructure solution that brings together Windows Server ‘Longhorn’, next generation Exchange Server and security technologies for mid-sized companies.
