Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

Centralized information technology asset management

Operation Manager (SCCM) is a complete solution of information technology asset management, of inventory, of management of the applications and of security updates.

SCCM allows to effectively manage the changes and the configurations thanks to an accurate check of the infrastructure and the asset management activity by using an distributed and evolutionary architecture.

It offers principally the following advantages:

• Deployement of XP, Vista, Windows 7
• Allows to reduce the maintenance actions
• Decrease the time of respond of the technical support
• Generate exhaustive and personnalizable reports for each decisional level of the organization.

Applications management and deployement

SCCM offers an easy solution for the planification, the test and the analyse of projects of applications deployment of the organization thanks to :

 

• A precise targeting of the user groups or machines.
• The creation of software batches directly starting from Windows Installer.
• The replication by delta for the updates.
• The use of the interface "add/remove program" for the end-users.

Hardware and software inventory

Despite an information technology asset management growing the organization have access to an exhaustive and relevant information on their infrastructure to be able to make suitable decisions in term of profitability and to save on the fixed assets. SCCM offers for that :

 

• A hardware inventory using Windows® Management Instrumentation (WMI).
• An intelligent software inventory which is based on the variables of environment and the properties of the files.
• A precise measure of the use done with the softwares.

Updates deployment and management

SCCM  helps to carry out without difficulty the maintenance of the
integrity of the information processing system and makes it possible
to identify the vulnerabilities of the software, to quickly deploy the last security updates and to control the installation of it.

The assistants of implementation guide the administrators through three following steps :

• The automatic control of the last security updates necessary to the
  Windows® systems through "Microsoft Update Services" and "Microsoft Office Services".
• The analysis of the vulnerability of the park and the selection by the
  administrator of the updates among those proposed.
• The preparation and the deployment of the updates by whole of machines or user groups defined by the administrator.