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Microsoft System Center

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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 Management Made Easy.

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 9, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 a...
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Verified user
Administrator
Microsoft System Center10 years of experience

The numerous benefits offered and realized by using Microsoft System Center!

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 18, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We have a large group of users over several buildings that require management. We use SCCM to control the device drivers and software that are deployed to different groups. Th...
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Verified user
Manager
Microsoft System Center5 years of experience

System Center: Great for imaging and application deployment

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 18, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We currently use Microsoft System Center to manage and image all staff and student machines in the organization. We utilize Microsoft System Center to push applications and pr...
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Engineer
Microsoft System Center7 years of experience

My experience with Microsoft System Center

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 18, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Microsoft System Center for remote support to users in the company and for the assets management. This software has been help us to be more productive and to have acces...
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Andry Campos
Technician - Information Technology
Soporte TĂ©cnico
AsociaciĂłn La Nacional de A y P
Microsoft System Center7 years of experience

Many features to make IT life easier

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 30, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Microsoft System Center is used by the IT department. We are using it to image PCs, initial software application installations, patching/updating existing applications, remote...
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Amy Howard
Technician - Information Technology
Computer and Network Spec
BND
Microsoft System Center14 years of experience
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Pricing

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Standard Edition

$1323

On Premise

Datacenter Edition

$3607

On Premise

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
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Product Demos

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Product Details

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 and datacenter. Datacenter provides unlimited virtualization for high density private clouds, while standard is for lightly or non-virtualized private cloud workloads.

Microsoft System Center Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Microsoft System Center starts at $1323.

The most common users of Microsoft System Center are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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System Center

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 25, 2021
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft System Center
7 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is used across the whole organization. It addresses critical business solutions managing all windows endpoints and servers. It is a core system in deploying desktop and laptop fleet. Patching through SCCM has been robust and also helps in producing the reports every month. It has helped to secure our organization and also quick deployments of packages to endpoints.
Pros
  • Application Deployment
  • Reporting
  • Operating system management
  • Integration with powerbi
  • endpoint protection
Cons
  • Availability of new feature is slow
  • Third party tool integration required for some endpoint management actions
Likelihood to Recommend
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

System Center Rocks!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
March 27, 2019
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft System Center
7 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • More seamless integration. I feel like Microsoft can do better when it comes to configuring some features within System Center.
Likelihood to Recommend
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 Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
April 30, 2021
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Research Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft System Center
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use it mainly to manage our BOX servers and processes, it helps to show the logs and who has accessed the BOX recently. It makes resource management and application deployment easy. The product has saved a lot of time for our resources to automate implementations and roll our service jobs.
Pros
  • Better time management
  • Ease of application deployment
  • Manage remote BOX servers
  • Provide automated update to clients
Cons
  • Provide more documentations and training
  • The UI looks old and is not updated
  • shows error and needs to be reboot
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Private Cloud with Microsoft System Center

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 16, 2016
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft System Center
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend

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.

My experience with Microsoft System Center

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
May 18, 2022
AC
Andry Campos
Soporte TĂ©cnico
AsociaciĂłn La Nacional de A y P (Financial Services, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft System Center
7 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Microsoft System Center for remote support to users in the company and for the assets management. This software has been help us to be more productive and to have access the endpoint very easy. With System Center we too deploy software and can get information about the computers.
Pros
  • The remote access is very useful
  • The software deployment is very useful
  • The dashboard is very friendly
Cons
  • The patches software need to be improved
  • The reports need to be improved
  • This need a mobile device management
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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