Empower users to be productive anywhere, on any device

Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager helps empower users to be productive while maintaining corporate compliance and control. It provides a unified management infrastructure for physical, virtual, and mobile client environments.

Enable Flexible Work Styles

The consumerization of IT is a growing challenge for many IT departments. Employees expect consistent access to corporate services wherever they are, on any device theyre usingdesktop, laptop, smartphone, or tablet. How do you manage this influx of devices while still maintaining the compliance and data protection needs of the enterprise? System Center 2012 Configuration Manager provides a unified infrastructure that enables you to manage mobile, physical, and virtual client environments. It delivers and manages user experiences based on a users corporate identity, network connectivity, and device type, helping you maintain productivity as the user moves between devices. Configuration Manager 2012 also makes IT more efficient through simplified administrative tools and improved capabilities for enforcing compliance.

Empower users
Configuration Manager 2012 gives you the power to make users more productive by giving them an optimal working experience wherever they are, on whatever device they are using. Enables device freedom. Configuration Manager 2012 gives workers the freedom to use whatever devices they need to be productive, while helping to keep your environment secure and compliant. The Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 release provides integration with Windows Intune, offering a single administrative console for managing policies and providing comprehensive asset and compliance reporting across mobile devices, including Windows RT, Windows Phone 8, iOS, and Android. It also includes the ability to manage and deploy thin clients as well as point-of-sale (PoS) and other Windows embedded devices, and to create and provision Windows To Go portable workspaces. Delivers optimized, personalized application experiences. Configuration Manager 2012 evaluates the attributes of each device to determine the optimal mechanism for delivering an application to a specific user. This could be a local installation, streaming through application virtualization, or use of a presentation server. Through integration with Citrix XenApp, even users with non-Windows devices are assured access to any business application thats compatible with Configuration Manager 2012. The Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 release also gives administrators a way to avoid unwanted data charges by preventing application downloads if a device is using a 3G or 4G wireless network connection. Creates application self-service. Configuration Manager 2012 provides an easy-to-use web catalog where employees can securely self-provision applications from anywhere. Users are shown only the software they have permission to request.

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Support for Windows 8 Integration with Windows Intune Built-in management of embedded devices Heterogeneous platform management

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Empower users to be productive anywhere, on any device

Unify IT management infrastructure
Configuration Manager 2012 enables you to streamline operations by consolidating all client management and security in a single infrastructure. Integrates mobile, physical, and virtual management. Configuration Manager 2012 reduces the complexity of implementing virtual environments with a single tool that unifies management of all your client desktops, thin clients, and hosted virtual desktops. It also helps you orchestrate the delivery of applications across multiple desktop virtualization platforms. Improves security and compliance. Configuration Manager 2012 reduces your administrative and operating costs using a single platform that integrates management of desktop security and compliance. As the management infrastructure for System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection, it provides a single solution to protect against malware, remediate vulnerabilities, and deploy updates, while giving visibility into noncompliant systems. Reduces infrastructure complexity. Configuration Manager 2012 helps reduce costs by consolidating server roles and providing scalability enhancements. Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 also extends management to Linux and Unix servers.

Simplify IT administration
Configuration Manager 2012 makes it easier and faster for you to keep systems well managed and compliant. Provides comprehensive client management. Configuration Manager 2012 continues to deliver the world-class inventory tracking, operating system deployment, update management, client assessment, and settings enforcement that you have come to expect, including exceptional support for Windows and Windows embedded devices. Increases administrator effectiveness. Configuration Manager 2012 makes it easier and faster for IT administrators to perform day-to-day tasks. Its modern user interface includes built-in search capabilities, ribbon tabs and toolbars, and the ability to organize administrative tasks by business role. Its application model enables administrators to define an application for a user once and deliver it across multiple devices. Automates remediation. Configuration Manager 2012 provides continuous settings enforcement. Administrators can choose to set Configuration Manager 2012 to identify any variance from established baselines and automatically remediate noncompliant physical or virtual desktops.

For more information about System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, visit www.microsoft.com/ systemcenter/ configurationmanager.

With Configuration Manager 2012, administrators can deploy applications more efficiently. Applications can be defined once and then delivered to multiple device types.

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