TABLE OF CONTENTS What Is Microsoft System Center?
About System Center Components
At this point in the book, you should have a good understanding of the features and functions of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005. You can now see that MOM is a very robust, powerful tool that can make your life and the lives of your IT staff much easier. Now, what if we told you that MOM was only a piece of a much larger puzzle, intended to further help you with the management and stabilization of your IT enterprise systems? In this chapter, we will introduce you to the concept of Microsoft System Center, and give you a little background on what makes up this offering.
Microsoft System Center is an initiative by Microsoft, built around the framework of the Windows 2003 operating system and a variety of Microsoft Systems Management products. Each of the products that are part of System Center has been developed to complement the others, allowing for easy integration and seamless administration. System Center is intended to assist IT professionals in several key areas:
Capacity planning
Change management
Data protection
Operations management
Problem solving
Many of the products intended to be part of System Center have already been developed and released, whereas others are still in beta testing (as of the writing of this book), and more are on the horizon with expected release dates in the foreseeable future. The products currently in release and in development...
