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Microsoft System Center

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What is Microsoft System Center?

Microsoft System Center is an enterprise-grade IT Operations Management (ITOM) suite designed for the centralized administration of data center infrastructure, virtualized environments, and hybrid cloud workloads. The platform provides unified management across heterogeneous environments, including support for Windows Server, Linux, and Azure Stack HCI. System Center is Microsoft's ITOM stack for organizations that maintain a significant on-premise footprint, vs the company's Azure-based options for those with cloud (e.g. Azure Arc, Azure Monitor).

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SCCM still better then Intune nowadays.

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In the past, we did update our servers and clients manually (by WSUS). We had different tools for different workloads. With SCCM, we now have a single tool for managing and maintaining all our servers and clients without issues.

Pros

  • Operating system deployment.
  • Application/software deployment.
  • Software updates.

Cons

  • I think there will be no further big improvements, since Microsoft's focus is on Intune only.

Return on Investment

  • It’s hard to set up.
  • You need servers.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Intune

Other Software Used

Liquit, Ivanti Environment Manager, Qualys VMDR, Netskope Borderless SD-WAN, Netskope Private Access, ControlUp, TOPdesk, IGEL OS, Microsoft Windows, macOS

Monitor Windows by Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

Incentivized
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager used as Windows Monitoring Software. Microsoft System Center Operations Manager addresses the issue we faced in monitoring Windows box, it identifies OS bottlenecks and Applications crashes. We are monitoring Microsoft System Center Operations Manager in our org to monitor Windows servers.

Pros

  • Windows OS Monitoring
  • AD monitoring
  • Application Processes and Services monitoring

Cons

  • Cloud Monitoring
  • SaaS
  • Real User Synthetics

Return on Investment

  • Monitor OS and Windows Components
  • Application processes and Services monitoring
  • Dedicated SQL monitoring
  • Active Directory Monitoring

Usability

Alternatives Considered

LogicMonitor

Other Software Used

LogicMonitor, Datadog, OpenText Network Node Manager i (NNMi)

System Center - Couldnt comply without it

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Microsoft System Center to streamline our endpoint deployments and configuration. We utilize software deployment capabilities to manage upgrades and patching to 500 endpoints. Microsoft System center also helps us to deliver consistent device naming conventions/schemas and tie these in to our asset register. We also take advantage of device imaging and building automations.

Pros

  • Imaging/deployment
  • Automation of administrative tasks
  • Software delivery and version tracking

Cons

  • installation of SCCM - could be simpler
  • Endpoint protection setup - complex
  • Licensing costs

Return on Investment

  • Significant Technician time claw back (less time required for deployments)
  • tighter company compliance (asset register accuracy)
  • increased security compliance (upgrades & patching)
  • Greater added value to Microsoft volume licensing options - central store of software in system center and can be deployed with ease.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

SmartDeploy

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, SysAid, EntrySign, FortiClient

Microsoft Management Made Easy.

Incentivized
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use System Center to manage patching all desktops, packaging software and deploying to all systems, centralized antivirus management and policy control, and remote system administration. We also use it for image building and deployment across our enterprise network with local endpoints for build and patch management speed.

Pros

  • Patch Management.
  • Image creation and deployment.
  • Software packaging and deployment.
  • Antivirus dat file management and deployment.

Cons

  • Modernize the interface.
  • Simplify everything it does and cross-connect all bits of the software so you can do tasks linearly.
  • Make the UI web based and get away from a client gui.

Return on Investment

  • It has saved us hundreds of hours of patching, imaging, and remote support issues.
  • It has allowed us to keep current on MS products easily and scale our network quickly.
  • The aging ui interface does cause us to drag on being able to work faster to resolve issues and be flexible in helping users.

Usability

Other Software Used

Microsoft Intune, PRTG Network Monitor, Lansweeper

SCOM- The monitoring OG

Incentivized
Amit SanwalView profile
Infrastructure Engineer in Information Technology at Rackspace (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SCOM to provide enhanced monitoring to our customer's Windows servers as a managed hosting service. Proactive monitoring is the biggest business problem that SCOM addresses which reduces the potential incidents that a customer can have due to an outage that poses huge financial threats, especially during their peak business season or hours. We provide monitoring to thousands of customers who depend on their servers to run their critical apps seamlessly and usually, we resolve the issue before an outage occurs.

Pros

  • Server Monitoring
  • Network Monitoring
  • Proactive Alerting
  • Hardware Monitoring

Cons

  • Cloud monitoring especially AWS/GCP
  • Virtual appliances monitoring
  • Slow web console/Operations console. Perhaps a full-fledged web console like MS Azure would be great.

Return on Investment

  • Improved revenue
  • Exceeded customer satifactions
  • Solid NPS score

Alternatives Considered

Nimbus and ScienceLogic SL1

Other Software Used

Nimbus, ScienceLogic SL1, Sophos Intercept X for Server