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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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System Center

9 out of 10
January 25, 2021
It is used across the whole organization. It addresses critical business solutions managing all windows endpoints and servers. It is a …
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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 and Ratings

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Microsoft system centre in our organisation in multiple devops team and operation team to simplify operations and deployments . It has been renamed to Microsoft Endpoint configuration manager recently . It provides a suite of applications which is critical to the operation . This includes comprehensive accessing , deploying and managing the servers .
  • 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
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In our internal automation helpdesk, to ensure the availability in our company. With this product, we can manage this. The platform is compatible with open systems like VMware. This makes it easy to use for different types of use.
  • 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.
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 programs to machines and keep them up to date. We also use the Windows Update Server side of System Center to keep machines up to date and compliant. We use System Center's monitoring and query ability to track machines and assets in the district as well. This allows us to identify machines as they fall out of compliance. We utilize the Remote Control aspect of Microsoft System Center to remotely assist staff and work on issues. We also use Right Click Tools to expand the functionality of Microsoft System Center to give us greater control over machines.
  • Imaging
  • Remote Control Assistance
  • Deploying Software and Programs
  • Driver Management
  • Inventory Management
  • Windows Updates
  • User Interface
  • Windows Update Configuration and Setup
  • Distribution Point Setup
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • 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
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using System Center products including System Center Configuration Manager, System Center Operations Manager & System Center Endpoint Security Manager. The role of Systems Center Configurations Manager is to deploy windows updates, operating system images & custom software packages for clients and servers, we have deployed automatic deployment rules to deploy windows updates to windows clients, for servers we deploy manually only security patches, Windows 10 and other operating systems have answer files attached to the deployment which reduce interaction with support staff. End point security manager is deployed on servers to ensure proper antivirus update and security for servers, through operations manger we have automated a lot of tasks that were previously done through group policies and task scheduling.
  • 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
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • 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
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
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
October 26, 2017

Makes life easier.

Tuan Pham | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
It is well suited for any scenarios you need it for.
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