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August 12, 2019
Microsoft System Center: Update Quickly and Efficiently
We use Microsoft System Center to automate the creation, monitoring, and deployment of resources in our Azure Pack environment. It is being used by our entire organization and it allows us to be more streamlined and solves some of the challenges that we were having. It also helps our IT diagnose and troubleshoot infrastructure, workload, or application issues.
- 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.
February 09, 2019
SCCM and SCSM together to rule our world
Microsoft System Center is the client management solution for my institution. It is responsible for the imaging, inventory, software deployment, patch management, incident and service request tracking and much more. It is because of SCCM and SCSM that we are able to manage thousands of computers with a small team and provide a robust level of service.
- 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.
It is our go-to when it comes to deploying packages to the end points. It makes it easier for us to deploy Windows updates.
- 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.
We use it for image deployment as well as patching our computers. Of course only the I.T. Department will use it to deploy our computers to the rest of the organization. The business problems that it addresses is having a default image for all our computers that we deploy. It makes our lives easier knowing that we can deploy our computers quickly and correctly.
- 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.
We use SCCM to help us in multiple areas. Machine management and settings is one of the main areas we use this tool. One of my favorite pieces is the image deployment. It is the cleanest and best way to create an image. It uses wmi to read the hardware and selects appropriate drivers. It lays down the drivers after the OS. Then it installs the software you choose. It works much better than a static image where everything is the same and you can run into multiple issues down the road. We also use it to capture images and deploy updates. Another great thing we use it for is patches and as a remote control tool for the machines in our domain. IT mainly uses this. It addresses hardware structure and security concerns. It is a great tool.
- 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.
February 08, 2018
Centralized management of your data center.
Thanks to the platform developed by Microsoft, the Microsoft System Center allows you to monitor with ease, but also with the maximum possible detail all the infrastructure of your Data Center. For what is my experience I use with great satisfaction the operations manager that allows me to monitor different SQL server-side operations.
- 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
December 19, 2017
Using SCCM to save time and gain consistency
The system center is used for several different things. We use it to deploy software and images to all of the machines on our network. We also use it for patch management and security updates. It also has several tools that can be helpful from the IT side to be able to assist end users better and get the information that you need without interrupting the end user.
- 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.
December 16, 2016
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.
Microsoft System Center Scorecard Summary
About 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 and datacenter. Datacenter provides unlimited virtualization for high density private clouds, while standard is for lightly or non-virtualized private cloud workloads.
Categories: Application Infrastructure
Microsoft System Center Technical Details
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