Posted: May 20, 2002

Microsoft’s three current management products will continue to evolve over the next several years. Application Center server, Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), and Systems Management Server (SMS) will all get minor updates, services packs, and other incremental enhancements for at least three years. Sometime between 2005 and mid-2007, two new management products, Server Manager and Client Manager, will appear and encompass the functions of the current management products. Server Manager will provide the core server management functions provided by all three products today, and Client Manager will provide the core client device-management functions provided by SMS and MOM today. However, Microsoft has not provided details about how the transition will take place