Overview
What is Microsoft System Center?
Microsoft System Center Suite is a family of IT management software for network monitoring, updating and patching, endpoint protection with anti-malware, data protection and backup, ITIL- structured IT service management, remote administration and more. It is available in two editions: standard…
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Microsoft System Center helps your IT
The numerous benefits offered and realized by using Microsoft System Center!
System Center: Great for imaging and application deployment
My experience with Microsoft System Center
Microsoft System Center ! A Complete Suite for modern infrastructure
SCCM - A Great Tool for the Right Size Company
Microsoft System Center Review
Many features to make IT life easier
Gets the job done, well-integrated
System Center
Microsoft System Center: Update Quickly and Efficiently
System Center Rocks!
SCCM and SCSM together to rule our world
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Pricing
Standard Edition
$1323
Datacenter Edition
$3607
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $1,323 per month
Product Demos
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Product Details
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What is Microsoft System Center?
Microsoft System Center Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise |
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Operating Systems | Windows |
Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
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Reviews and Ratings
(72)Attribute Ratings
Reviews
(1-20 of 20)Microsoft System Center in REVIEW 2022
- Ease of use
- Suite of application makes it a one stop shop for all the infrastructure needs
- Onboarding and offboarding of users and devices are very easy
- Need more comprehensive documentation and Wiki pages
- The learning path can be a little difficult for beginners
- Pricing can be a little more competitive
- it is easy to use security groups in the install polices and other polices.
- Install method is often complex.
- If you make a mistake in the settings, it will break. You will have to re-build.
You will get some failers, deeply knowledges and rebuild System Centers. After that, you can use it with confidence.
These experiences will teach you new ways to deal with windows machines.
It is also a great option for those who want to reduce the number of maintenance vendors.
Microsoft System Center helps your IT
- Compatible with a variety of devices and systems.
- End-users can use different apps and devices that fit their requirements.
- Internal automation team can perform their tasks efficiently.
- The scale of different devices.
- High learning curve.
- Need training to use the product.
- Allows the grouping of devices by user.
- Allows controlling updates being deployed to user devices.
- Allows for the repurposing of machines by being able to load new or updated software on machines that already are in the system.
- Allows us the ability to wipe a machine clean and restore it back to the configuration that was assigned the machine.
- The end-user should be able to update the base system (SCCM) much easier than is currently allowed.
- Searching across the different levels of device groups would make locating a single computer much easier.
- Because our version is an older release this concern may have already been resolved. Often after we've done considerable re-imaging our unit requires a reboot to bring all of the services back online.
- Imaging
- Remote Control Assistance
- Deploying Software and Programs
- Driver Management
- Inventory Management
- Windows Updates
- User Interface
- Windows Update Configuration and Setup
- Distribution Point Setup
My experience with Microsoft System Center
- The remote access is very useful
- The software deployment is very useful
- The dashboard is very friendly
- The patches software need to be improved
- The reports need to be improved
- This need a mobile device management
Microsoft System Center ! A Complete Suite for modern infrastructure
- Deployment of Windows Updates through SCCM
- Deployment of Operating System through SCCM
- Deployment of Application Packages through SCCM
- Automation of task through SCOM
- Deployment & Management of Antivirus through SCEPM
- Reporting in SCCM
- Automatic Deployment Rules in SCCM
SCCM - A Great Tool for the Right Size Company
- Imaging
- Software Pushes
- Script deployment
- System Settings Compliance
- Remote Control Tool
- Imaging Troubleshooting
- Database management
Microsoft System Center Review
- Better time management
- Ease of application deployment
- Manage remote BOX servers
- Provide automated update to clients
- Provide more documentations and training
- The UI looks old and is not updated
- shows error and needs to be reboot
Many features to make IT life easier
- Remote PC connection
- Software installation
- Imaging PCs
- Reporting could be improved (offering more canned reports)
- Easier patching/patching automation (ability to connect to the vendor's site to create the patching in an automated fashion)
Gets the job done, well-integrated
- User interface
- Deployment of software
- Tooling usability
- Needs web based storefront for requesting new software
- Needs ability to manage the packaging work flow better
- Sometimes is slow to download and there is no indication the entire catalog is being loaded, resulting in confused users not being able to find common software in the available list.
System Center
- Application Deployment
- Reporting
- Operating system management
- Integration with powerbi
- endpoint protection
- Availability of new feature is slow
- Third party tool integration required for some endpoint management actions
Microsoft System Center: Update Quickly and Efficiently
- Provides our users the ability to deploy and manage our own datacenter based on defined software with understandable solutions for storage, compute, networking and security.
- We are able to update at once all the computers from all departments without having to install the OS on every computer.
- It allows us to have everything in one place for database management and datacenter inspection as well.
- Implementation was a struggle, and although I was not here for it, that is what most people said.
- It is not user-friendly, not easy for someone who has not used it before.
I don't think it would be a great use-case for smaller companies of less than 25 users.
System Center Rocks!
- Very easy to configure.
- You can control how much bandwidth you want to use across the wire.
- You can have branches if you don’t want to make deployments over the WAN.
- More seamless integration. I feel like Microsoft can do better when it comes to configuring some features within System Center.
SCCM and SCSM together to rule our world
- It is completely tied and integrated with the Microsoft ecosystems.
- Its ability to deploy and manage based on criteria is broad and helps identify the right collections for the right software.
- It allows us to stay current with the ever changing MS infrastructure.
- It is big. Microsoft Big. As a result you really have to know what you are doing. Set up precautions so that you don't image or deploy things to the wrong groups.
- It is click intensive.
- The UI could be simplified.
Centralized management of your data center.
- ease of management
- complete overview of the infrastructure
- unique and centralized console
- differentiated licenses depending on whether you have VMs or physical servers
- license prices too different between VMs and physical servers
- initial configuration not very fast
- you are the systems engineer for a company and you have a complex data center in a Microsoft environment,
- you need to centralize the management of your data center in a single point
- you want to check its performance, make detailed analysis after a downed service
- you want to analyze what happened
Using SCCM to save time and gain consistency
- Image deployment.
- Patch management.
- Remote management.
- Sometimes it seems to take several times to get things added or changed in the system. For instance we have to add the OS that we want to me deployed a couple times.
- Can have some time delay when using it.
- Some management tools may be unavailable at certain times.
Makes life easier.
- Storing drivers for our different model computers we have.
- Being able to have central server for Windows Patches
- The system analyzer is also a great tool to see what security risks our computers we deploy have.
- Injecting the correct drivers could be a little easier.
SCCM IS great, here is why!
- I love being able to image the different machine setups we have with one system.
- I also love being able to manipulate windows settings without having to use group policy.
- Patch management and taking over WSUS is a great feature.
- More detailed information on where installs are at.
- Easier and more granular reporting would be nice.
- Ease of use.
Private Cloud with Microsoft System Center
We used Microsoft System Center and Windows Azure Pack to build our Private Cloud. On the backend we are using VMware. We built self service portal with WAP, approval process with System Center Service Manager (through WAP portal or email), automated deployment of the requested vms with Orchestrator and VMM. Everything is monitored with Operations Manager. Right now we are using it only for our DEV environment but next step is to do for our production environment. Developers can request vm (windows, red hat, Linux) in different regions and get the vm in less then 1 hour comparing to days through traditional way.
Our Desktop Support team is managing images and software with Configuration Manager.
- System Center Orchestrator - best tool for automation I have ever used.
- System Center Virtual Machine Manager - nice way to manage your hyper v and VMware infrastructure.
- VMM - currently you can't build vm from Linux template and customize the vm if you are running VMware on backend.
- Service Manager - email notification could be better, for a lot of notifications we need to use Orchestrator.
If you are thinking to build Private Cloud, I think it is a great product. I have experience with few VMware vrealize and I think Microsoft product is much more flexible and it has many more features.
If you are not thinking to build Private Cloud but you are Hyper V shop, the product is a must.