{"id":10357,"date":"2010-02-04T18:57:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10357"},"modified":"2010-02-04T18:57:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:57:53","slug":"system-center-essentials-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10357","title":{"rendered":"System Center Essentials 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

SCE is possibly the least known of Microsoft System Center family.  The existing 2007 version is a merger of the core components of Operations Manager 2007 and Configuration Manager 2007.  It is a subset and it does support fewer servers and desktops.  That\u2019s because it is aimed at small to medium companies.  For example, SCE 2007 manages up to 30 servers.<\/p>\n

Microsoft is updating the product.  OpsMgr has seen changes with 2007 R2 and Configuration Manager is undergoing development for an R3 release for this year.  It doesn\u2019t end there.<\/p>\n

Microsoft knows that SME\u2019s are quite likely to deploy Hyper-V for virtualisation.  The number of hosts might grow.  I know one small software company that runs two hosts with dozens of VM\u2019s.  Developers want new VM\u2019s for test and development on a frequent basis.   That sounds like maybe VMM would be handy.  And so SCE 2010 will include functionality from VMM to manage Hyper-V.  Virtualisation typically means there will be more servers.  Therefore SCE 2010 will manage up to 50 servers.<\/p>\n

A release candidate (test) version of SCE 2010 is available<\/a>.  <\/p>\n