Installing and Configuring System Center Essentials 2010

Adrian Stoian IT Trainer & Consultant

Agenda
Installation Scenarios Installation Prerequisites Installation Process Configuration Steps Administration Reporting Notification setup

Unified solution for midsize businesses

A unified solution with a single console for managing your physical and virtual servers, desktops, hardware, software, and IT services
Unified Experience

Proactive Management

Monitoring, troubleshooting and asset tracking to keep your IT environment secure and up-to-date

Increased Efficiency

Simple execution of complex management tasks like troubleshooting end user issues, monitoring, creating and managing virtual servers, software deployment

Integrated management designed for medium sized companies with up to 50 servers and 500 Clients

Unified management experience Virtualization creation

& management Simple setup Comprehensive monitoring Update management Software and hardware inventory Software deployment Integrated reporting

Foundation Technologies
System Center Essentials foundation
technologies:
Operations Manager 2007 Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Update

Essentials Server requires

Windows 2003 Service Pack 2 Active Directory SQL Server 2008 SP1 Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0 Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.5 SP1

*Support for virtualized computers

Supporting Platforms

Essentials Server
Windows Server 2003 Standard, Enterprise SP2 or later Windows Server 2008 Standard, Enterprise Windows Small Business Server 2008 x64 only Windows Essentials Business Server 2008 x64 only

System Center Essentials management console and database may be installed on remote systems separate from the management server (up to 5 consoles) Essentials virtualization management can be installed only on servers running Windows Server 2008 Standard or Enterprise Edition (x64 only), or on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard or Enterprise Edition SQL Server 2008 Express, Workgroup, Standard, and Enterprise SP1 or later

Supporting Platforms (cont.)

Managed Nodes Clients:
Windows XP SP2 or later Windows Vista Business, Enterprise or Ultimate Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate edition

Servers:
Windows Server 2003 web, Standard, Enterprise SP2 or later Windows Server 2008 standard, Enterprise Windows Essentials Business Server 2008 x 64 only

Supporting Platforms (cont.)

Essentials Server Prerequisites Hardware:
2.8 GHz or faster processor(s) 4 GB of RAM (Recommended) 20 GB of Disk Space (Recommended) 1GB on System Drive; 150 GB of available hard disk space if planning virtualization

Software:
Windows Server 2008 with IIS 6 or 7.0 & .NET 3.5 SP1 .NET Framework 3.0

Infrastructure:
Active Directory Domain Admin/Group Policy Admin rights(optional)

Supported Deployment Topologies

The System Center Essentials management server, reporting server, and console are all installed on a single computer. The reporting server is installed on a different computer than the System Center Essentials management server. A System Center Essentials console can be installed as a stand-alone component on a computer other than the System Center Essentials management server. Up to five remote Essentials consoles can be used at a time. Any System Center Essentials 2010 component can be installed on a domain controller. System Center Essentials 2010 can manage computers or network devices that are in a different domain from the System Center Essentials management server, as long as the domains are in the same Active Directory forest.

Installing Essentials
Increased Efficiency

Get up and running quickly!

Abstracts the complex process of installing Simple 10-screen setup Interactive prerequisite checker to analyze readiness Contextual help, ToolTips and Validation Installation 64-bit and 32-bit server hardware Flexible SQL Server configurations
Automated Prerequisite Remediation Modular Setup of Components Dynamic updates at install time Core Management Packs Only Migration to Essentials 2010 for VMM WG and Essentials 2007

New in 2010

System Center Essentials Installation

Configuring Essentials
Increased Efficiency

Simple to configure, guided step-by-step

Wizard-driven experience for initial configuration Product configuration Computer and Device Discovery Update Management configuration Improved out-of-the-box experience Extended criteria for Scheduled Discovery Policy conflict detection Monitoring Configuration Wizard recommends monitoring experience automatically imports and updates MPs

New in 2010

Configuring System Center Essentials

Reporting

Built-in reporting Report on all IT data Daily health report covering key metrics 50+ reports available out of the box including
Virtualization Candidates Host virtual machine Utilization Security and Critical Update Compliance Report Asset tag and BIOS serial number

Notification

Setup Infrastructure Channels

SMTP IM SMS Custom

Message Content Notification Recipients Alert Aging to help meet SLAs

Administration Reporting Notification setup

The Roadmap for Essentials

Essentials 2007

Essentials 2007 SP1

Essentials 2010

May 07 RTM

March 08 SP1

May 09 Fall 09 Spring 10 CTP Beta RTM

Sumar
Installation Scenarios Installation Prerequisites Installation Process Configuration Steps Administration Reporting Notification setup

Resurse suplimentare
Site-ul System Center Essentials
http://www.microsoft.com/SCE

Blog-ul echipei System Center Essentials

http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenteressentials/

Download System Center Essentials 2010 Release Candidate

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx ?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c0c696b9-29a94a5c-97a0-574c84a4ec1d

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