What's New in Systems 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 roadmap since the Mar. 2007 Enterprise Software Roadmap include the following:

System Center Essentials shipped; the product provides hardware inventory, software distribution, and monitoring for midsized businesses, using Windows Server Update Services 3.0 and Operations Manager 2007 technology
Reporting Manager 2006 will not get another stand-alone release, but will be incorporated into the planned Service Manager trouble ticketing and problem resolution product in 2008
Forefront Client Security, an enterprise-level tool that provides centralized management for the detection and removal of malicious software on Windows XP and Vista clients, shipped in July 2007
A security product, code-named Stirling, will unify the consoles for the Forefront products and is planned for public beta in 2008
Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007, which begins the integration of the formerly separate Identity Integration Server and Certificate Lifecycle

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