Microsoft System Center

The suite of SCCM tools provided by the Microsoft system center is quite comprehensive and it helped out newly created infrastructure team manage the infrastructure smoothly without any major hiccup . The team was quickly able to adapt to new features and this helped our business to grow further and client really appreciated the smooth transition.

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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.

Best Scenario: fewer clicks and automated workflows help the Internal automation team reduce repetitive daily tasks so that the team can focus on more important aspects of their job. Less: setting it up requires significant expertise.

We used a product before that was designed to prevent users making changes and saving files to the desktop computer. This required a renewal of the license. By using SCCM in our environment we were able to discontinue using that product because SCCM allows us to completely restore a machine back to the original configuration. We have taught our users to save their individual work on either a network drive or a cloud drive. By doing this, if we do a re-image of their machine they have lost no data, and it makes for a faster resolution. In some instances having a computer in our SCCM environment it can become cumbersome when creating new users for very specific purposes. It can be done by creating new organizational units and applying new policies but when in a pinch it can be frustrating. For the most part we have tried to make "new" purpose images and groups to at least accommodate a quick install.

Microsoft System Center excels when it comes to mass imaging of machines in an organization. We recently had to replace a large quantity of machines in our organization, roughly 1000, and utilized Microsoft System Center to provide a consistent image to each machine. It made the process extremely simple. We setup our task sequences to drop machines into their respective OU's, so once the imaging process is done, the machine has all the software it needs, is completely up to date, is in the correct OU, and has the group policies that it should. This requires little interaction on IT's side to get a machine ready to go. We used to use FOG to image machines, which required a lot more work and interaction than what System Center does.

This software is very useful in the software deployment, but this is not very well with the reports. When you are an expert using this, you can do a lot of things, but it is necessary to know the sofware administration for to have good results using the deployment or patches features.

System Center is a Suite of products with a very vast amount of depth to it, it covers almost all aspects of server infrastructure and is well suited for large enterprises and medium sized organizations, it is not suited for small organizations. The tool that we used the most is System Center Configurations Manager which is very well made and it simplifies a lot of tasks like operating system deployment, updates and patches deployment and applications deployment. For automation System Center Operations Manger is well suited and for security System Center End Point Protections Manager.

SCCM is a great tool for a large company with a large number of endpoints, computers that require specialized images - or lots of changes between images, OS updating, and general management. It isn't appropriate for smaller companies or teams that don't have a dedicated resource for SCCM management and managing the updates.

It is a great tool for organizations having multiple resources accessing BOX servers that needs log management. It is easier to install and deploy applications for broad users. It can be used to update serves with quick patches. It can be easily integrated with other Microsoft products like SQL and BI tools for visualization.

Good for small to large companies with windows machines. Great for self service user troubleshooting (what changed recently that broke such and such). Reliable distribution of software and updates to existing installations. Wouldn't work great for companies that use Unix based systems, or at least I don't have experience using it with those.

Large enterprise requires robust product for managing their enterprise desktop fleets. SCM provides flexibility to have a hybrid system with AZURE which is added advantage

Microsoft System Center improves our company's overall organization and increases efficiency with its automated workflow process and self-serve options. It is also fully stable and is able to diagnose and troubleshoot infrastructure, workload or application issues in order to maintain always reliability and great performance the majority of the time.

I don't think it would be a great use-case for smaller companies of less than 25 users.

If I had to dislike something about the system it would be how much it changes once you upgrade. This could be more of a problem of mine since I get used to one way and don't like it when it changes so much. I am enjoying the newest update, but it is a mess when you are actually going through the upgrades.

Best for the deployment of Windows updates, and updates of applications and imaging workstations over the network. Honestly, I have not found a situation where I wouldn’t use System Center.

Microsoft System Center is ideal for companies with a lot of computers. After a 1000 you just can't keep track of all of the variability and unique circumstances. This helps you manage, monitor and control your environment. It helps keep down the amount of people needed to run around and allows you to take care of things automatically and at a distance.

Scenarios which Microsoft System Center is useful are if:

1. you are the systems engineer for a company and you have a complex data center in a Microsoft environment,
2. you need to centralize the management of your data center in a single point
3. you want to check its performance, make detailed analysis after a downed service
4. you want to analyze what happened

This is well suited for a medium to larger size company that is looking to create and manage a computer image that is uniform across the company. It is also nice because you are able to do everything remote from the user and don't have to be there in person. This is really nice when someone needs software and you can just deploy it. There are sometimes when the connection is lost between the host and SCCM and you have to see them in person to sync things back up. Sometimes there is also some delay but that may be something on our network side even though I don't experience any delays in everything else I am doing on the network at that time which makes me think that SCCM may run slow at times.

It is well suited for any scenarios you need it for.

I think the bigger the company the more need for SCCM. It can function very well at a large scale. The imaging function and management capabilities far outweigh any little headaches you might get from the initial setup and installation. The anti-virus piece could be more robust and easier to use but it is nice to have it included.