System Center Products

The System Center product line supports computer and network configuration, monitoring, analysis, and other administrative tasks. For 2012, System Center products received name changes. For example, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 has been replaced by System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. In addition, most products are no longer available separately but must be licensed as part of a suite. Current System Center 2012 R2 products are as follows:

• Advisor (now Azure Operational Insights)
• App Controller*
• Configuration Manager*
• Data Protection Manager*
• Endpoint Protection*
• Global Service Monitor
• Operations Manager*
• Orchestrator*
• Service Manager*
• Virtual Machine Manager*
• Microsoft Intune (previously called Windows Intune, is not formally part of System Center but has similar functions and was previously referred to as System Center Online Desktop Manager).

* Included in System Center 2012 R2 Standard and Datacenter licensing suites.

In a major licensing change introduced with System Center 2012, the individual System Center products generally are no longer available separately but must be acquired as part of a System Center licensing bundle (with the exception of Endpoint Protection for clients). For managing servers, there are two bundles, which differ only in virtualization rights: System Center 2012 R2 Standard and System Center 2012 R2 Datacenter, each containing licenses for eight System Center 2012 R2 products. For managing clients, there are three bundles: