Article: Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 turns the efficient deployment of servers into a straightforward, automated process, and can also be used to manage configuration changes and system updates. »

Article: Dynamic IT is the name of Microsoft's long-term strategy for a new generation of IT products and technologies, pulling together the company's Dynamic Systems Initiative and its Application Platform strategy. »

Article: Virtualization technology presents administrators with particular management challenges in addition to those associated with conventional server management. Microsoft's Virtual Machine Manager 2007 is part of the System Center family of management products. »

Article: System Center Essentials 2007 is a single, unified management system that proactively monitors, updates and troubleshoots IT infrastructures with up to 500 PCs and 30 servers. As the name indicates, most of the features in System Center Essentials 2007 come from members of Microsoft's enterprise class System Center family of management products »

Article: Monitoring and managing IT services consumes a large proportion of most corporate IT departments' resources, and in the last few years this workload has been increased by the need to comply with new regulatory requirements. As a result, many organizations have few resources left over to devote to the introduction of new, business-enhancing technologies and services. »

System Center solutions capture and aggregate knowledge about your infrastructure, policies, processes, and best practices so your IT staff can build manageable systems and automate operations in order to reduce costs, improve application availability, and enhance service delivery. »

System Center provides a single, end-to-end platform for managing desktops, servers, and devices in both physical and virtual environments. Start now and see how fast you can achieve integrated IT life-cycle management, knowledge-driven efficiency, and rapid time to value. »

With the release of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007, the deployment and management of server configurations has taken on a whole new set of capabilities. Watch this Webcast to see how the data center will benefit from new features and capabilities previously only available across a collection of solution accelerators and feature packs, if at all. »

Desired configuration management in Configuration Manager allows you to assess the compliance of computers with regard to a set of established configurations, such as whether the correct Microsoft Windows operating system versions are installed and configured appropriately, all required applications are installed and configured correctly, optional applications are configured appropriately, and whether prohibited applications are installed. Read More or Listen to this audiocast. »

Carnival Cruise Lines wanted to boost the availability of a Microsoft® Exchange Server deployment crucial to ship-to-shore communications, as well as boost availability on its increasingly important e-commerce Web site. Its doing that thanks to Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007. »

To help control costs, improve business agility, and remain secure and in compliance, many IT organizations are taking steps to transition to a truly dynamic infrastructure. At the same time, many organizations are also planning to implement the next line of server products from Microsoft, yet are challenged to find the fastest, least disruptive way to deploy this technology. »

Windows Server® 2008 is the most recent version of the Windows Server operating system. The Microsoft System Center family of solutions helps you implement Windows Server 2008 in your organization with less effort and complexity than previous versions of Windows Server. »

Many in the industry have come to believe that virtualization is merely the use of virtual machine software. This viewpoint is useful if the goals were only consolidating an existing application portfolio onto a smaller number of systems, cost reduction, cost avoidance, or making it easier to deploy systems for new tasks, it is not as useful if the organization is seeking higher levels of performance, greater levels of scalability, greater agility, high levels of reliability and availability or being able to manage their physical and virtual resources in a uniform way. »

Configuration Manager 2007 provides the data center with the configuration and deployment management solution it needs to drive productivity and efficiency by reducing manual tasks and maximizing hardware and software investments. »

As a first step in building an end-to-end solution, Microsoft IT used System Center Operations Manager 2007 to consolidate two of its largest management groups into one group, the Enterprise Monitoring Team (EMT). In this webcast, we show how Microsoft System Center Operations Manager significantly changes the way that EMT monitors its operations. »

Compare the different methods for performing an operating systems deployment. »

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 offers integrated operating system deployment tools that provide a centralized, scalable and customizable way for IT administrators to deploy Client and Server operating systems across their organization quickly and cost-effectively. »

Listen to an audio cast about operating system deployment. »

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 includes hardware and software inventory and software metering capabilities that help IT organizations understand exactly what hardware and software assets they have, who is using them, and where they are. »

Desired configuration management in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 reduces the complexities of monitoring configuration changes in even the most complex IT infrastructures. Administrators can easily monitor and capture configuration information of servers, desktops, laptops and mobile devices across their network and evaluate the compliance of those devices against regulatory and corporate requirements. »