What's New in Systems Management, Security, and Identity Management

As managing vice president, Rob Helm covers Microsoft collaboration services and client software. His 25-plus years of experience analyzing Microsoft’s... more

Major changes in Microsoft’s systems management, security, and identity management roadmap since the Mar. 2012 Enterprise Software Roadmap include the following:

New versions of all products in the System Center line were released in Apr. 2012
Beta versions of updates to Virtual Machine Manager 2012 and Data Protection Manager 2012 allow those products to work with Windows Server 2012 beta
Endpoint Protection was updated and moved from the Forefront line to join System Center 2012
System Center 2012 introduces a new licensing model: most individual products will no longer be available separately but must be acquired as part of a System Center licensing bundle, which includes eight products
AVIcode has been merged into Operations Manager
Opalis has been renamed Orchestrator
Advisor has been extended to allow monitoring of Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, and SQL Server 2012
A Windows Intune prerelease lets administrators manage mobile devices such as tablets

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